DUBAI: Egypt’s men and women suffered straight-games defeats in their respective Table Tennis Team Round of 16 matches to exit Tokyo 2020 at the Japanese capital’s Metropolitan Gymnasium on Sunday.
The Egyptian women’s team of Yousra Helmy and Farah Abdelziz lost 3-0 (11-8, 13-11, 11-6) to Daniela Dodean and Elizabeta Samara of Romania at Table 3 in the morning session.
In the afternoon session, the men’s duo of Ahmed Saleh and Khalid Assar also went down 3-0 (11-4,11-7,11-3) in 16 minutes to the powerful Chinese pairing of Long Ma and Xin Xu.
