Indian paddlers maintained their cent per cent record when they drubbed Northern Ireland, Australia at the C'wealth Games.
MELBOURNE: Indian paddlers maintained their cent per cent record when they drubbed Northern Ireland and hosts Australia by an identical 3-0 margin in the men's Table Tennis team event at the 18th Commonwealth Games on Friday. Their women teammates had to face a stiff challenge from Wales before coming through 3-1 in their Group C encounter. Soumyadeep Roy set the ball rolling with a thumping 11-6 11-2 11-6 win over Jason Sugrue in the Group D tie.
Achanta Sharath Kamal was tested by Jonathan Cowan in the first game before the Indian prevailed 12-10 and went on to take the next two games 11-7 11-6.
National Champion Subhajit Saha clinched the tie beating Andrew Dennison 11-8 11-4 11-3. In their match against Australia, Soumyadeep Roy fought back from a game down to take the first match. Roy lost the first game 8-11 before bouncing back to take the next three games 12-10 11-7 12-10. Sharath Kamal carved out a 11-3 11-8 11-9 win over Brett Clarke while Subhajit Saha downed Trevor Brown 11-5 11-9 11-7. Indian paddlers had on Thursday defeated Kiribati as well as Saint Vincent and Grenadines 3-0. The men's team event features 27 nations in four groups with the top two from each group going through to the quarter-finals.