Soccer-Ghana lose
third qualifier
Tennis-Adjei-Darko
succumbs to Loglo in three sets
Soccer-Ghana lose
third qualifier
Kinshasa ( DR Congo) 15 January
2001
Ghana lost its third qualifier in Group Six of the 2002
nations cup match honoured in DR Congo on Sunday. The half time score was 2-0
in a match watched by a capacity crowd of 80,000.
Scorers were DR Congo, Michel Dinzey 10th and
Mputu Mbungu 13th minutes while Ghana's Kwame Ayew pulled one back
in the 77th minute.
Ghana's defender Samuel Johnson was red carded in the 89th
minute.
In Bulawayo on Sunday, Zimbabwe lost at home to Lesotho 1-2.
Standings at the end of third round matches are:
P
W D L F A
Pts
1. Lesotho
3 1 2 0 6
5 5
2. Ghana
3 1 1 1 8
6 4
3. DR Congo
3 1 1 1 5
5 4
4. Zimbabwe
3 1 0 2 5
8 3
Remaining fixtures: Ghana v DR Congo, Accra, March 25
Lesotho v Zimbabwe, Maseru, March 25 Lesotho v DR Congo, Maseru, June 3
Zimbabwe v Ghana, Harare, June 3 DR Congo v Zimbabwe, Kinshasa, June 17 Ghana v
Lesotho, Accra, June 17.
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Tennis-Adjei-Darko
succumbs to Loglo in three sets
Accra (Greater Accra) 15 January
2001
Ghana's Henry Adjei-Darko on Friday
succumbed to the might of tournament's number one seed Komilavi Loglo of Togo,
in a 6-4,4-6,6-4 epic thriller at the Accra Sport Stadium court.
It was a match filled with amazing
of points, mind-boggling shots and retrievals that lasted for two hours 33
minutes as well as display of talents rarely seen of boys under 18 years of
age.
Loglo by this victory wins the
International Tennis Federation (ITF) Junior Satellite for the under 18 and
below for West Africa, having won the Lome and Accra legs while Adjei-Darko
comes second for winning the first leg in Lagos.
Loglo who was pushed hard by the
young Ghanaian through out the match had to rely on his big serves and numerous
unforced errors committed by his less experience opponent for the victory.
The first set swayed from one
player to the other, as Adjei-Darko broke Loglo's serve in the third game, but
the joy was short lived as his opponent broke back immediately and levelled up
in the fourth game.
The set then went with serve till
the ninth game when Loglo broke Adjei-Darko's again, after saving two set
points to push the game to deuce which saw the Ghanaian committing one of his
numerous unforced errors and handing the first set to Loglo who won 6-4.
The second set saw a spirited come
back from Adjei-Darko as he fought for virtually every ball using a lot of
athleticism to win crucial points that brought the crowd to their feet on
several occasions.
The seventh game, Adjei-Darko
exhibited phenomenal athleticism as he dived at full length at the net to push
the ball beyond onrushing Loglo to win the seventh serve.
In the tenth game Adjei-Darko
broke Loglo's serve for the only break of set after he double faulted for
Adjei-Darko to win the second 6-4 thus pushing the game a third decider.
The third game lost some bit as
the two players having used a lot of energy in the first two sets played a much
tighter game to conserve energy in the hot mid-day sun.
Adjei-Darko continued to commit
more unforced errors especially at crucial match points as he pushed forward
and was made to pay for this in the ninth game as his serve was broken to give
Loglo the opportunity to serve for the game which he won 6-4.
In the girls division, number one
seed Berthe Khady of Senegal beat her doubles partner from Zimbabwe Tsi Tsi
Masviba 7-5, 6-1 after they had earlier won the girls doubles gold to bring her
wins to three having won the first and second stages in Logos and Lome.
Henry Adjei-Darko took the
consolation in winning the boys doubles after partnering with Sunday Jegede
from Nigeria for the gold.
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