Lionel Beyer of France grabbed a double at the 2nd Beach Teqball International Cup in Wanning as Cambodian players fail once again to reach the podium.
Beyer won the singles title with a clinical 12-3, 12-3 win over Japan’s Akinori Wase. He later teamed up with Ukranian Sagyebo Istvan-David for the doubles gold defeating China’s Zhnag Jun Ming-Sun Zhixu 21-8, 12-7.
Both the Cambodian players – Minea Chan and Ratanak Nak – failed to get past the group stages.
Minea lost all his three Group E matches against the Chinese duo of Zhiang Zhang and Mao Yongqing as well as to Mongolia’s Nominchimeg Tsetsenberkh.
Ratanak picked up victor over China’s Wang Suunde but lost to German’s Diego Gollub and Zhang Chengming of China.
Both Minea and Ratanak qualified for the doubles quarter-finals after a 2-1 record in the Group D. The Cambodian pair defeated Romanians Zoltan Mate-Diego Gollub and Mongolia’s Undrakh Mynganbayr-Nominchimeg Tsetsenberkh but lost to China’s Mao Zhe Ming-Yongqing Mao at the group stages.
Their march in the competition ended in the quarter-finals, with their opponents – the Japanese duo of Seiya Arai-Akinori Wase – making the semi-finals.
CAMBODIAN RESULTS
Men’s singles
Group Matches:
Minea Chan lost to Zhiang Zhang 7-12, 7-12
Lost to Nominchimeg Tsetsenberkh (Mgl) 3-12, 1-12
Lost to Mao Yongqing (Chn) 4-12, 4-12
Ratana Nak lost to Diego Gollub (Ger) 4-12, 5-12
Beat Sunde Wang (Chn) 12-0, 12-0
Lost to Zhang Chengming (Chn) 12-8, 6-12, 10-12
Men’s doubles
Group matches
Ratanak Nak-Minea Chan bt Zoltan Mate-Diego Gollub (Rom) 12-7, 12-6
Beat Undrakh Mynganbayr-Nominchimeg Tsetsenberkh (Mgl) 12-3, 12-4
Lost to Mao Zhe Ming-Yongqing Mao (Chn) 5-12, 9-12
Quarter-finals:
Lost to Seiya Arai-Akinori Wase (Jpn) 0-12, 0-12
