Gold Coast (Australia) April 11 (IANS) India s Harmeet Desai Achanta Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran came out victorious in their respective men s single table tennis matches to enter the Round of 16 at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Wednesday.
While Harmeet and Sathiyan comfortably outclassed their opponents Sharath faced a fight from Malaysia s Javen Choong.
Harmeet thrashed Papua New Guinea s Geoffrey Loi 4-0 (11-4 11-3 11-1 11-2) and Sathiyan outplayed Pakistan s Muhammad Rameez 4-0 (11-5 11-3 11-5 11-3).
Sharath managed to win a tough game 4-3 (11-2 11-5 11-4 7-11 11-13 6-11 11-7).
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