TOKIO, 27 (from the special envoy of Europa Press, Ramón Chamorro)
Spanish table tennis will not fight for medals in the individual competitions of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo after the rest of the players were eliminated this Friday, with Jordi Morales, Eduardo Cuesta and Francisco Javier López as those who went the furthest.
Morales, in class 7, could not get past the quarterfinals and enter the fight for the medals. After having signed a very solvent group stage, the Catalan paddler had no options against the Polish Maksym Chudzicki, 17 in the world, who defeated him in three games by 11-6, 11-7 and 11-9.
For his part, Cuesta, in class 2, won the remaining match of the group stage against Tunisian Karim Gharsallah (11-1, 11-9 and 11-4), but he did not go beyond the quarterfinals either, at lose to Australian Samuel Philip von Einem, three in the world, by 8-11, 11-8, 11-7 and 11-7.
Francisco Javier López was able to overcome his first crossing in class 4, in the round of 16 against the Chilean Cristian Gonzalez by 14-12, 11-7 and 11-9, but not the one in the penultimate round against the Turkish Abdullah Ozturk (11-6 , 11-9, 11-2), number one in the world.
In addition, José Manuel Ruiz from Granada also lost in his second match of the class 10 group stage against Montenegrin Luka Bakic (11-6, 11-4, 11-6), while Álvaro Valera, number one in the class 6 and silver in London and Rio, did not agree to the crossings, hurt by a triple tie.
