Three players arrived, on Monday, in the 16th final of the simple tests at the Individual Mass Table Tennis Championships in Doha (Qatar).
Bernadette Szocs finished the match happy
In the male, Iulian Chiriță defeated the Belgian Martin Allegro with 4-0 (11-3 11-4, 11-9, 11-6), and Eduard Ionescu won with emotions in front of American Kanak Jha, with 4-3 (6-11, 7-11, 4-11, 11-5, 15-13, 11-5, 11-6), according to the Romanian Federation site.
In the female sample, Bernadette Szocs outclassed Zhiying Zeng (Chile) with 4-0 (11-5, 11-4, 11-8, 11-3).
In the second round, Ioana Sîngeorzan lost the duel with Yubin Shin (South Korea) with 2-4 (11-9, 6-11, 5-11, 12-10, 5-11, 1-11), and Elizabeta Samara was injured in the first set with Izabela Lupulesku (Serbia) and was forced to abandon, 0-4 (5-11, 0-11, 0-11 0-11).
Tuesday will take place the duel between Andreea Dragoman and Austrian Sofia Polcanova.
In the men's doubles, Ovidiu Ionescu and the Spanish Alvaro Robbles, world vice-champions in 2019, qualified in optimum after 3-1 (11-5, 11-2, 8-11, 11-5) with Australians Hwan Bae/Aditya Sareen. Iulian Chiriță and Eduard Ionescu lost in the sixteenth of the Chinese Lin Gaoyuan/Lin Shidong with 0-3 (6-11, 6-11, 10-12).
In the women's double test, Bernadette Szocs and Sofia Polcanova qualified in the eighth following a 3-0 victory (11-6, 11-5, 11-7) to the detriment of the Mexican couple Clio Barcenas/A also Arantxa Cossio, and Adina Diaconu and Maria Xiao (Spain) passed by Lucia Cordero/Hidalynn Zapa (Guatemala) (11-7, 11-4, 11-9).
At the mixed doubles, Ovidiu Ionescu and Elizabeta Samara managed to qualify in the eighth after 3-1 (11-5, 11-6, 5-11, 11-9) with the Turks Ibrahim Ghuntuz/Sibel Altinkaya, but withdrew from the competition after the injury of Eliza Samara.
