Romania’s men’s national team scored an impressive 3-2 win over Hong Kong in their final Group 3 match at the World Table Tennis Team Championship in Chengdu, China on Tuesday.
In this way, the “tricolors” won their second victory in a row after 3:2 with Iran, having lost the first two duels, 2:3 with Hungary and 2:3 with Japan.
Hunor Szocs suffered a clear 3-0 defeat against Chun Ting Wong (11-5, 14-12, 11-1) in the first match, but Ovidiu Ionescu restored the tie with a 3-1 win over Pak Nam Ng (14 – 12, 6-11, 11-9, 11-5).
Hong Kong took the lead again after Siu Hang Lam beat Eduardo Ionescu 3-2 (9-11, 11-6, 11-4, 10-12, 11-8).
Ovidiu Ionescu then managed to defeat Chung Tin Wong 3-2 (9-11, 11-6, 1-11, 13-11, 11-8) so that the Hunor Shocks won 3-2 in the decider ( 11 -9, 7-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-2) match with Pak Nam Ng.
In another match, Japan beat Hungary 3:1.
Japan took first place in the rating with 8 points, followed by Hong Kong (6 points), Romania (6 points), Hungary (6 points), and Iran (4 points).
The top-ranked teams in each group will be drawn for the seeding position in the round of 16, the second-placed team will be randomly drawn against the group winner or the unoccupied seeding position, and additional places will be taken by the best third-placed teams, according to Agerpres .
Source: Hot News RO
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