Tokyo:Â India’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran was knocked out of men’s singles table tennis event after losing 3-4 to Hong Kong’s Lam Siu Hang in Round 2.
Ranked 38 and seeded 26th, Sathiyan had a commanding 3-1 lead but lost four games in a row to lose 3-4 to the 95th ranked Hong Kong player.
The first game was tight but the Hong Kong player pulled away from 6-6 with his forehand at work.
Sathiyan raced to a 5-1 lead in the third game in a dominating fashion and kept going strong as Lam’s game fell apart and in no time and Sathiyan had a 2-1 lead in his pocket.