World Team Table Tennis Championships 2018, Men's Group Stage: India vs Republic of Korea, Live Match Updates

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The Indian men thus have one win (3-2 vs Poland) and two losses (2-3 vs France and 0-3 vs Korea) from their three outings so far.

In the absence of India's No. 1 and No. 2 stars, Desai, Anthony and Shetty did a commendable job and didn't allow the mighty Koreans easy wins.

Korea def India 3-0

Final score: Lim def Shetty 11-8, 15-13, 9-11, 11-9

And with that, Lim wins the match as well as the tie for Korea.

And Lim wins it 11-9 in Game 4

Shetty saves a match point and trails 8-10

Lim races ahead to 10-7 now.

Three match points in hand.

It's 7-7

And it's 5-5 currently

It's 4-2 to the Korean now in Game 4

Shetty puts up a remarkable show of calm under pressure to take the next two points. He pockets the third game 11-9

And Shetty is right after him and makes it 9-9

Lim goes up to 9-8

It's 8-8 currently

Lim again takes a slender lead of one point.
8-7

It's 6-6

It's now Lim's turn to take two points and lead 6-5

And Shetty does prove that he is here to make things not so easy for Lim

Shetty up 5-4

Lim inches ahead to 4-3....he would surely like to finish this off in three games.

Does Shetty have enough in his tank to prevent that?

The two are evenly poised at 2-2 in Game 3

Nevertheless, it was a pretty solid show from Shetty in that game and should encourage him to keep up the fight.

Lim takes the next two points and pockets the second game 15-13

And it is 13-13

Great fightback from Shetty, who takes a couple of points and now has a game point of his own!

13-12

Game point to Lim

12-11

And it is 10-10

Such a tight game this is!

The two are on par presently at 8-8

He couldn't keep it for long as Lim comes back and makes it 6-6

Shetty brings out an aggressive game to soar to a 5-3 lead.

How long can he keep the lead?

1-1 in Game 2

And Lim converts!

11-8 goes the first game to the Korean!

And the Korean takes 3 points on the trot to go up to 10-8

2 game points in hand!

8-7 to the Indian

Sanil moved ahead but could not build on his lead

6-6

The game continues to move at the same pace!

5-5

Still not much to choose between the two.

3-3

And 2-2 as well

It's 1-1

Next up is Sanil Shetty vs World No. 33 Jonghoon Lim

Final score: Jeoung def Anthony 11-7, 11-6, 13-11 to send Korea 2-0 over India

The Korean converts it and takes the game 13-11, and, with it, the match as well.

Match point to the Korean paddler

12-11

The Korean saves yet another game point!

11-11

It's 10-10

Game point to Anthony

10-9

As expected, the Korean couldn't be held off for a long time as he levels matters at 9-9

And he inches closer to taking this game

9-7

Anthony has moved ahead to 8-6 now

World Team Table Tennis Championships 2018, Men's Group Stage: India vs Republic of Korea, Live Match Updates

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