Michael Maze beats Sharath Kamal

Sharath Kamal keeps India's stamp in the Professional Table Tennis world. He recently faced Michael Maze of Denmark in the Euro Asia all stars tournament at Vendée, France. Although Sharath lost 7-11, 11-8, 11-6, 11-9, he put up a good fight and had chances to equal it at 2-2.

Asia emerged the overall winners in the contest held over 2 days (11-9).

Results:

Saturday 27th October 2012:  
EUROPE 4-1 ASIA
Michael Maze v Sharath Kamal Achanta 7-11, 11-8, 11-6, 11-9
Adrian Crisan v Kazuhiro Chan 11-6, 8-11, 11-6, 11-4
Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Jiang Tianyi 11-8, 9-11, 11-2, 11-5
Vladimir Samsonov v Ryu Seungmin 11-6, 8-11, 12-10, 11-7
Adrien Mattenet v Li Ping 4-11, 5-11, 9-11

Sunday 28th October 2012:  
EUROPE 2-3 ASIA
Michael Maze v Li Ping 6-11, 10-12, 6-11
Adrien Mattenet v Kazuhiro Chan 12-10, 9-11, 9-11, 5-11
Vladimir Samsonov v Jiang Tianyi 8-11, 7-11, 11-13
Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Ryu Seungmin 11-8, 11-7, 11-6
Adrian Crisan v Sharath Kamal Achanta 11-8, 11-7, 9-11, 11-6

Subhajit, Divya shine at Asian Cup, Guangzhou

Upsets galore! Subhajit Saha beat World No. 18 Jiang Tianyi in the group stage of the Asian Table Tennis Cup. The amazing thing is that Tianyi went on to win the Bronze medal in an almost world class tournament that had many top players except the Chinese cream.

Wang Liqin continued his inevitable slide by losing to Iran's Noshad Alamiyan.

Divya Deshpande of India topped Group D Women's section of the Asian Cup. She beat world no. 134 Beh Lee Wei twice (in group and second stage) to finish a creditable 13th.

The GAC TOYOTA (Camry) 25th Table Tennis Asian Cup 2012 was held at Guangzhou from 6th -8th Apr. 2012.