Beach Tennis or Beach Tennis World Championships, team type (including men and women), ITF Beach Tennis World Cup 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on the night of November 13, 2022. On the last day, the Thailand national team competed for 13th place with the South African national team.
Opening in women’s doubles, Thailand’s Prakaikan Sawisit and Nikarat Wateenukit lost the first set 5-7 before starting a new match. Up to go back to win the pair of Tamara Peters and Kyla Yelverton by measure 2-1, sets 5-7, 6-4 and a super tie break 11-9, picking up points for the Thai team that takes the pairs ahead for 1-0
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Men’s doubles: Netiwit Pengwanna and Oran Tangwongkit fight with Ryan Brookshaw and Raynard Steenkamp in 3 sets, having to fight with a super tie-break to decide And finally, it was a pair of Thais who lost 1-2, sets 7-5, 0 -6 and a 4-10 super tiebreak, resulting in South Africa getting one point to draw with the Thai team 1-1.
While in the mixed doubles category, Prakaikan Sawisit and Leklamat Harrison, against the performances of Tamara Peters and Raynard Steenkamp, lost 0-2 sets 4-6 and 1-6, as a result the Thailand national team lost 1- 2 in the South African national team and took 14th place in the world.
The summary of all matches in the table is as follows: 1st-2nd place Italy beat Brazil 2-1 pair, 3-4th place Venezuela beat Spain 2-1 pair, 5th-6th place France beat Germany 2- 0 pair, 7th place -8 Latvia beat Puerto Rico 2-1, 9-10 Japan beat Chile 2-1, 11-12 USA beat Poland 2-0, 13-14 South Africa beat Thailand 2-1 pair and 15-16 Portugal beat Curacao 2-0 pair.
“Coach Ek” Mr. Piyathat Surasewi, head coach of Thailand beach tennis national team, revealed that in 2018 the Thailand team ranked 20th in the world, therefore aiming to rank this competition in the year 2022. Better than before, achieving victory at 14th th place, considered a result that satisfies the goal. Talked to the contest organizers. Who is pleased to invite the Thai team to participate in the competition next year Whether the Thai team can still maintain a good world ranking or ranking especially at the youth level In which one of the athletes who come to this competition can enter at the youth level. When he came back, he had to keep improving his technique, tactics and good game.
“Right now, I would like to commend all the athletes who have discipline and fight to the max in every match. making team Thailand achieve their goals Including thanking travel supporters for this competition, both PTT or PTT and Lawn Tennis Association of Thailand. This gives us an opportunity to compete in such an outstanding program,” said Piyathat.
Incidentally, this Thailand Beach Tennis National Team consists of 3 male athletes, Oran Tangwongkit, Leklamat Harrison, Netiwit Pengwanna and 3 female athletes, Nikarat Wateenukit, Prakai Kan Sawisit, Mayuree Hanmontri, with “Coach Ek” Mr. Piyathat Surasewee as a coach and Mr. Wanchana Puranawattanakul as a sports scientist.
