NEW DELHI, July 24: The Indian boys finished sixth after losing to Chinese Taipei in the 21st Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships, being held in Kuala Lumpur, today.
China, as expected, won the gold while South Korea and Japan finished in that order with silver and bronze medals.
Earlier, in the quarterfinals, the Koreans cleaned up the Indians with Cho Seungmin beating Lalrinpuia 3-1, An Jaehyun blanking out Sanish Ambekar 3-0, and Lalrin Puia losing to Park Jeongwqoo 1-3.
In the last edition of the Asian Junior championships, held at Mumbai in 2014, the Indian boys had finished ninth after they beat Bahrain 3-1.
But the junior girls went down a few rungs to finish tenth. In the 9-10 positions match, Singapore beat India 3-1. Earlier, the girls lost 0-3 in the pre-quarterfinal match against Chinese Taipei. It was sort of a revenge for the Taipei girls who, in the Mumbai edition, lost to 1-3 hosts and had finished eighth behind India.
China, Japan and South Korea finished on the podium winning gold, silver and bronze, respectively.
In the cadet section, the girls have done reasonably well as compared to the boys. The girls, who could not go past the quarterfinals, went down 0-3 to North Korea and finished sixth. Aas for the boys, they finished ninth after failing to qualify for the second stage. In the first stage, they lost to Malaysia 1-3. (PTI)
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