The Huelva Álvaro Robles could not move from the second round in the individual table tennis competition, when 4-2 fell defeated before the Brazilian Hugo Calderano, head of series number 4, in 56 minutes, in a match in which the Spanish was more than more: 11-7, 11-13, 9-11, 11-8, 11-3 and 5-11.
Calderano, first Latin American player to enter the top 10 of the world table tennis, lost the first partial but knew how to change the game strategy.
Sales with devilish effect, cross blows and, above all, the effectiveness on their right, were giving fuel to the Brazilian, who achieved the comeback to get 2-1. Those risks and the best oak response to the Calderano offensive allowed him to tie 2.
There they began to fell the oak options to move to the next round. Calderano, with the experience in two Olympic Games, Rio 2016, where he was eighth, and Tokyo 2020, where he reached the quarterfinals, opted to take the game initiative, aggressive, looking for short points and the reverse of Spanish.
Many oak failures, little precision, and two last games that took the Rio de Janeiro player easily. It overflowed the rival with a blunt ending, the last two assaults were conclusive, 11-3 and 11-5. Little to object.
“Alvarito”, 33, had begun his participation in the Olympic Games winning in the first round to the Austrian Daniel Habesohn with a score of 4-2.
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