Giannis Sgouropoulos could not resist the superiority of the very strong Korean Lee Sangsu, lost the early hours of the morning with a 4-0 set and was left out of the second round of the men’s singles at the World Individual Table Tennis Championships in Houston.
The European champion of the simple Under 21, ten days ago in Belgium, had both the psychological impetus and the value to chase another surprise against a top Asian, but it was not a good day.
Most importantly, however, was Li Sangxu, number 20 in this week’s world rankings, who showed his great class and caught a very good pace from start to finish.
Earlier, Katerina Toliou was also eliminated, also losing 4-0 set to Puerto Rican Adriana Diaz and, thus, the Greek competitive presence in the American big city was quickly completed.
Sgouropoulos knew that he had to “catch” a very good performance and have the duration to really threaten the Korean. From the moment this did not happen and the opponent went through his own game, the defeat came fatally. Things might have taken a different turn if the Eleusinian ace reduced it to 2-1 in the third set, but he lost it in overtime and nothing could be changed.
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