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The 20th Kings Cup World Sepaktakraw Championships 2005 where the sepaktakraw family from 26 countries met saw sepaktakraw rise as a game interms of quality and wisdom. The indian team consisting of five players from Tamilnadu state Balaji.S, Premnathan.R, Suriya Prakash, Omkumar, Saravanan and other players from Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Orissa( Names will be put up after prior permission) could not perform up to the mark with the absence of experienced players from Manipur. The indian team Headed by Balaji.S didn't Qualify for the Semi finals in the Team Event after losing to the Runners-Up Malaysia and Bronze Medalists Korea. Thier performence against these teams was below par.
The Indians missed the bronze medal in the 'B' division 'Doubles Event' by narrowly missing out Against China in the Quaterfinal Stages. However the indians put up a Great fight considering that they are playing the Doubles event for the first time. The Score read 23-25 in the second set after losing the first Set pretty easily. Previously in the Second set the Indians had two crucial match points at 20 - 19 and 22- 21 which was broken by the chinese contigent. After that the chinese went on to win the match 2- 0. The Indian Team for the doubles event was Represented by Balaji.S, player from Andhra pradesh( Names will be put up after prior permission), R.Premnathan.
Thailand had thier Tit for Tat moment against thier arch rivals Malaysia in the finals of the team event when the beat them in straight regus. Winning the Regu Gold at the South East Asian Games at Cebu the Malaysians looked Stronger and devastating until reaching the Finals of the tournament. They beat Korea, china, India in the group stages. They beat Germany in the quaterfinals and Korea again in the semifinals on thier way to the final. On the other Hand Thailand Beat Sri Lanka, Japan in the group stages. They beat Japan again in the Semifinals on thier way to the final. Korea and Japan took the bronze medals in the Team event.In the womens section , history repeats as Thailand played Vietnam in the final of the team event where thailand won 2-0. The bronze medal was taken by Indonesia and China.
Tamilnadu players who represented the country this year at the kings cup said, " Focus this time will on winning the national championships this year". 5 Tamilnadu players were picked to represent the Indian team at the Kings cup world championships this year. They said that they gained enough confidence and also observed certain important techniques from the best players of the tournament which would help them improve a lot upon thier current performence. Tamilnadu state has been improving in thier performence every National championships and they feel that this is the right time to compete for the championship. They have enough players who are more experienced at both national and international level to acheive the task. TNS website wishes the Tamilnadu State team a happy and victorious New Year.
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