Pakistan tails off in Asian Jr. TT

Pakistan secured 10th position in the boys’ team event of the 15th Asian Juniors Table Tennis Championship, which is currently in progress in Indian city of Jaipur, according to results made available here on Friday.

Pakistan lost all but one matches in the first stage of group A to finish fifth among the six-team group. They went down to Iran, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore by an identical margin of 0-3 besides winning straight against Kazakhstan.

The group B consisted of five teams, namely, Chinese Taipei, India, Thailand, North Korea and Bahrain. In the playoff matches for 9th to 12th position, Pakistan gave a 3-1 drubbing to Thailand apart from losing 1-3 to Singapore to finish 10th among 11 nations.

Table Tennis is a game, which doesn’t require much of investment and it could easily be promoted in every educational institutions located in every nook and corner of the country for grooming up players of international standard and thus saving us from such embarassment.

Will the authorities here wake up after such a poor showing of Pakistan at the Asian Jr. TT?