Hungarian shock for Allegro-Lambiet

The Belgian pairing of Martin Allegro and Florent Lambiet were in for a shocker as they faced Hungarians Nandor Ecseki and Adam Szudi for a place in the semi-finals.

Ecseki-Szudi started strong and that itself seemed to shake up the Belgian duo. The match lasted barely 25 minutes in which the Hungarians claimed a deserved victory (11-5, 10-12, 11-6, 11-7). Over at Table 1, Austrians Robert Gardos and Daniel Habesohn knocked out Hong Kong’s Ho Kwan Kit and Wong Chun Ting in a fairly similar manner (11-8, 10-12, 11-2, 11-3).

“We are very happy to win this game. We lost against them last two or three matches but today we were well prepared. We tried to open the game more not to play too much short. And also we moved really well today. But it was very close we were 1-0 and 9-7 up and we lost the game so it was 1-1. But after we played really concentrated we didn´t make almost any easy mistakes and that was the key to the victory. We also had many lucky balls which are very important in table tennis. In doubles it is going really fast it is very important to start the set well then you have more confidence. We had a really tough draw in the 1st round we won 3-2 against strong Chinese pair so we are happy that we survived.” –  Robert Gardos and Daniel Habesohn

Not a “Guten Tag” for Dang-Nina

After coming back from the jaws of defeat yesterday, the morning game between German duo of Qiu Dang and Nina Mittelham and their Brazilian opponents was one to look forward to.

Qiu and Mittelham sadly could not channel yesterday’s energy as they lost in straight games (11-8, 11-8, 11-7). Meanwhile, China’s Ma Te and Wu Yang – the conquerors of top seeds Lee Sangsu and Jeon Jihee – lost out to their Korean compatriots Cho Daeseong and Shin Yubin in a close encounter (4-11, 11-4, 11-8, 11-7).

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