Table Tennis: Friday round-up

Lekopanye Mooketsi | Saturday May 24, 2014 10:44

 

Even Kenya’s number one Peter Muturi who terrorised local players during last weekend’s Botswana open championships, was reduced into a mere school boy yesterday by Egypt’s Mamoud in Group one.  Mahmoud walloped Muturi 3-0.  The marauding Egyptian went on to hammer Namibia’s Pieter Steenkamp with the same margin.  Muturi managed to occupy the runners up position after he beat the Namibian.

Botswana’s prospect Peo Thebe earned soft points because his Tunisian opponent Kerem Ben Yahia, did not turn up for the Group 3 tie.  However, Thebe succumbed to Ghana’s Isaac Amoako.   This meant that the Ghanaian end up heading the group with Thebe taking the second position.

In the women’s singles, the powerhouses are; Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Angola, Algeria, Ethiopia, South Africa and Mauritius. 

Like her male counterpart, Botswana’s representative Olorato Ramagapu took the second position in women’s Group one after she eliminated Mali’s Malado Sibibe.

These means that the Batswana players still have a chance of grabbing a medal, depending how they will perform.  But they are facing strong competition.