Day 2 Concludes In Rio! Everything You Need To Know + Day 3 Schedule! (VIDEOS)

The Rio Olympic table tennis men's singles events are now well underway and we've already seen some incredible matches, big upsets and amazing support from the Rio crowd. Home town hero Hugo Calderano has been on dazzling form knocking out both Par Gerell and Tang Peng in the second and third rounds respectively. The Rio native will now face Jun Mizutani in the next round and it will be interesting to see how Mizutani copes with the pressure of the extremely noisy and partisan Brazilian crowd.

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Hugo Calderano wins in front of home crowd! - Via ITTF Flickr

Another man on top form is Nigerian star Quadri Aruna who pulled of the upset of the men's draw so far by beating Chuang Chih-Yuan, in devastating fashion, 4-0 as well as Wang Yang in similar style. He now faces Timo Boll, who himself survived a scare in his first match of the tournament when he played Russia's Alexander Shibaev. Coming from behind and narrowly beating him 4-3.

Ma Long looked incredible, winning against Denmark's Jonothan Groth 4-0 barely losing a point in the process. He will now take on Jeoung Youngsik in the 4th round who beat Brit Liam Pitchford 4-1 playing some great table tennis. Marcos Freitas beat Ovidiu Ionescu 4-1 and Lei Kou beat Simon Guazy 4-1. They will now face off against each other for a place in the quarter final.

Ma Long vs Jonathan Groth (Round 3)



Round of 32 - Men Singles Results

Ma Long 4-0 Jonathan Groth
Liam Pitchford 1-4 Jeoung Youngsik
Timo Boll 4-3 Alexander Shibaev
Quadri Aruna 4-0 Chuang Chih Yuan

Marcos Freitas 4-1 Ovidiu Ionescu
Kou Lei 4-1 Simon Gauzy
Tang Peng 2-4 Hugo Calderano
Panagiotis Gionis 1-4 Jun Mizutani


Round of 32 - Men Singles Schedule Today

Times displayed in Rio! Matches take place today!

Dimitrij Ovtcharov vs Li Ping (12pm)
Tiago Apolonia vs Bojan Tokic (1pm)
Andrej Gacina vs Paul Drinkhall (1pm)
Vladimir Samsonov vs Kristian Karlsson (1pm)

Wong Chun Ting vs Wang Eugene (12pm)
Koki Niwa vs Stefan Fegerl (12pm)
Lee Sang Su Adrian Crisan (1pm)
Chen Chien An vs Zhang Jike (12pm)

Round of 16 - Men Singles Schedule Today

Times displayed in Rio! Matches take place today!

Ma Long vs Jeoung Youngsik (5pm)
Timo Boll vs Quadri Aruna (5pm)
Marcos Freitas vs Kou Lei (5pm)
Hugo Calderano vs Jun Mizutani (5pm)


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Written by: Thomas Jeffcott
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