Hong Kong's table tennis mixed doubles pair defeated in quarter-final

Hong Kong’s Wong Chun-Ting and Doo Hoi-kem were defeated by Lebesson Emmanuel and Yuan Jia-nan from France in the quarterfinal of table tennis mixed doubles.

The result was out after seven rounds of competition. 

Wong and Doo lost in the first round by 3:11, but they turned the tables in the second round by 11:6.

The Hong Kong team and France team won the third round and the fourth round respectively.

This made the seventh round a tie breaker as the game was 3:3 .

In the second half of the seventh round, the Hong Kong team fell behind by 7:10 as they made a few mistakes.

The duo did not give up and played the round to a 10:10 tie. But the France team still managed to gain two more points after that.

The France team won the game by 13:11 and proceeded to the semi-final.

In a post-match interview, Wong said he warmed up a bit slowly in today’s game and his performance was affected by some mistakes he made in the middle of the sixth round. 

Doo was sobbing when being interviewed, saying their approach was too conservative and they were not playing aggressive enough in today’s match.