Six Cubans win at the start of the Pan American table tennis singles competition

Havana, November 4 (ACN)--  Six of the seven Cuban players in the Pan American Table Tennis Championship, in Santiago de Chile, won in the beginning of the individual modality.

Eday Gómez beat Oscar Birriel of Puerto Rico 4-3, Jorge Moisés Campos 4-0 against Kevin Farley of Barbados, and Liván Martínez 4-3 against Guilherme Teodoro of Brazil in the round of 64.

In the same instance Lizdainet Rodriguez lost 4-0 to Brazil's Giulia Takahashi and Idalys Lovet won 4-1 over Venezuela's Mariangel Diaz, according to the results tables on the official website of the ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation) Americas.

Karla Perez and Daniela Fonseca will go directly to the round of 32, where this Friday they will compete against Puerto Rico's Brianna Burgos and Brazil's Bruna Takahashi, respectively.

This Friday in the round of 32, Gomez will face Mexico's Dario Arce, Campos will face Canada's Eugene Wang, Martinez will face Mexico's Marcos Madrid and Lovet will face Mexico's Clio Barcenas.

Of the Cubans, after the eliminations of the women's and men's teams at the start of the competition on Monday, and on Wednesday between mixed and men's doubles, only Lovet and Fonseca, who will compete this Friday in the quarterfinals of women's doubles, remained on the road to the medals.