No joy for Aussie table tennis teams
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Australia's men's table tennis side suffered its third defeat of the Olympics tournament on Thursday evening, going down 3-0 to Greece.
Kyle Davis was hammered 3-0 in the opening match of the tie 11-7, 11-4, 11-4 to Kalinikos Kreanga.
William Henzell then took on Panagiotis Gionis in the second match but also lost in consecutive games 11-7, 11-8, 11-8.
Henzell then returned to the PKU Gymnasium to partner David Zalcberg in the doubles match but the Australians were overcome 11-4, 11-7, 11-4 by Gionis and Ntaniel Tsiokas.
Meanwhile in the women's draw, Australia was tamed 3-0 by Group D rivals Spain.
Jian Fang Lay lost 11-8, 12-10, 11-4 in the opening match, while Miao Miao managed to wrest a set from Galia Dvorak before losing the second match 3-1.
Miao was heading for a 3-0 loss after conceding the opening two games, but pulled herself back into the contest with an impressive 11-5 third game.
Dvorak bounced back quickly to put the contest to bed though with a strong 11-4 win in the final game.
Dvorak returned to partner Fang Zhu in the doubles against Miao and Stephanie Xu Sang, the Spaniards crushing their Australian counterparts 13-11, 13-8, 13-7.
