Adyos Astan Advances To Tokyo Paralympics Round Of 16

Adyos Astan para-tennis athlete (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Adyos Astan has confirmed his ticket to the last 16 of the Tokyo Paralympics para-table tennis after winning his first win in the second match of Group A class 4 against Rafal Lis of Poland at table seven of the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, Thursday.

Although it was not easy, the Indonesian representatives appeared more confident and finally won the match with a score of 3-1 (11-5, 12-10, 11-13, 11-8) in a duration of 29 minutes.

Launching Antara, starting the match, Adyos Astan immediately stepped on the gas. He won the first game 11-5 in four minutes.

But in the second game, Rafal Lis gave resistance. Adyos Astan was overwhelmed before finally being able to close the second six-minute game with a 12-10 win.

In the third game, the Red and White athletes failed to maintain consistency. On the other hand, Rafal Lis was able to turn things around. Until finally, Adyos Astan lost the third game lasting nine minutes with a score of 11-13.

Thus, the match continued into the fourth game. On this occasion, Adyos Astan was able to regain control of the game by ensuring an 11-8 victory in five minutes.

This result put Adyos Astan in second place in Group A class 4 with one win and one loss.

Yesterday, Adyos Astan had to admit the greatness of the first seed from Turkey Abdullah Ozturk who also won Group A class 4 after losing 1-3 (8-11, 11-6, 3-11, 7-11).

The round of 16 of class 4 is scheduled to take place on Friday, August 27. After that it continued to the quarter-finals in the afternoon.

One day after that, or rather on Saturday the day after tomorrow, the semifinal match or bronze match will be held. The final or gold match for the 4th grade para-table tennis is scheduled to take place on Monday, August 30.