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DRINKHALL MISSES OUT ON EUROPEAN TABLE TENNIS CROWN 23 Sept 2009 Paul Drinkhall's dreams of adding the European senior title to his youth crown are over after a nail-biting defeat in Stuttgart. The 19-year old strolled past Holland's Michel De Boer in round two but came unstuck later in the day against Russia's Fedor Kuzmin, eventually going down 4-3. The English number one, who scooped the world junior silver medal in USA last December, bounced back from a error-strewn first game to take the next three and had a match point at 10-9 in the fifth game. But the Russian showed iron nerves to bat away the danger and take the game 13-11. Drinkhall fought hard to get himself ahead again in the sixth game but Kuzmin reeled off six consecutive points to take the game 11-8 before securing the win with an 11-9 final game. Article courtesy of morethanthegames.co.uk |
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