Cairo: Qatar’s Al Arabi table tennis team have successfully secured a place in the quarter-finals of the 35th Arab Table Tennis Club Championship for both men and women, currently taking place in Egypt from September 2 to 7.
The men’s competition features fifteen participating teams, including Al Arabi and Qatar SC from Qatar, as well as Sar from Bahrain, Al-Ittihad from Saudi Arabia, Al-Jaish from Iraq, Solidarity and Al-Fahaheel from Kuwait, Wydad from Morocco, and several Sudanese teams: Nile Al-Fasher, Al-Aqsa Atbara, and Al-Makki Madani, along with Enppi, Rowing Aswan, and Damanhour Games from Egypt.
In the women’s category, ten clubs are competing, which include Basra from Iraq, Al-Fatat from Kuwait, Wydad from Morocco, the Tunisian Golden Cluster Association, Al-Aqsa Atbara and Al-Falah Atbara from Sudan, as well as Enppi, Petrojet, and Jazirat Al-Ward from Egypt.
The Al Arabi team, comprising Rawad Nasser, German Schmidt, and South Korean professional Park Ga-yeon, qualified for the quarter-finals by finishing second in Group B. They achieved a victory over Moroccan Wydad with a score of 3-1 in the second round of the group stage, despite an initial loss to Saudi’s Al Ittihad by the same score.
Al Arabi is set to compete against their Bahraini counterpart today in the quarter-finals, with Rawad Nasser and his teammates eager to secure a win that would propel them into the semi-finals and advance their pursuit of the championship title.
Conversely, Qatar SC faced elimination in the group stage, finishing third in Group C after suffering two defeats, losing 3-0 to Bahraini Sar and 3-2 to the Egyptian Damanhour Sports Games team.
