It was not the debut Olympic Paddler G Sathiyan wanted to remember.
28-year-old child fell 3-4 (7-11, 11-7, 11-4, 11-5, 9-11, 10-12, 6-11) to Lam Siu Hong Kong Hang in the second round in the Tokyo game on Sunday.
The 26th Sathiyan, who received bye in the first round, lost the opening game 7-11 but was quickly grouped to win the next three matches — 11-7, 11-4, 11-5.
Sathiyan’s defense was sturdy and lam felt hot when the clash entered the fifth game.
With a comfortable 3-1 lead, someone would expect Sathiyan to wrap everything.
But things began to decline for India from the fifth match.
The error began to crawl into the game Sathiyan because the 95th ranks used it completely to pocket the fifth and sixth games each of them 11-9 and 12-10 and take a clash into the decider.
Lam had a momentum in the seventh and last match as he ran to 5-2 instructions with a proud forehand winner.
Sathiyan then left behind 6-9 and a forehand error gave me a point.
Sathiyan then made a backhand mistake and everything ended.
Sathiyan’s old coach, Raman is losing words to explain his people’s performance.
“This defeat cannot be explained.
He will win the match from this position on a certain day but today Sathiyan cannot do that.
He will return stronger than this loss,” Raman told Toi.
Raman felt Sathiyan had to be pushed more by national coach Soumyadeep Roy when the match began to slip from his hand.
“Everything he needed was his back kick and Sathiyan would be fine.
Maybe, Roy didn’t know how to push it in this situation, which was clear, because he was not the coach also did not have a long task with him as a travel coach,” Raman said that he could not Accompany Sathiyan to the game.
Sathiyan then brought social media to comment on his surprising defeat.
“It’s a very difficult day in court and of course the lost loss.
Hope to miss my chances and might take a few nights without sleep to overcome it.
However, I gave everything in the field and it was a great experience to play at my debut Olympics, “Write it.