Qatari doubles team wins gold at Arab table tennis

Qatar’s Ahmed al-Mohannadi and Mohamed Abdel Wahab in action during the men’s doubles final at the Arab Table Tennis Championships in Amman, Jordan, on Monday. The Qatari duo beat Bahrain’s Mohamed Saleh and Ilyas Ilyasi 3-0 (15-13, 11-6, 11-3) in the final. Qatari contingent added five more medals yesterday to the tally, taking Al Annabi’s total to 12 medals in the tournament. The doubles teams of Abdulaziz al-Abdullah and Mohamed al-Sulaiti, and Ahmed Jabbar and Abdullah Abdelwahab won a silver medal each in the under-11 and under-19 youth categories respectively. Sultan al-Kuwari and Ahmed Eid added a third silver. Maryam Ali and Shawq al-Abdullah won a bronze in the girls under-15 competition, while Khaled al-Yafei and Ruwad al-Nasser bagged a bronze in the under-15 category.