Below you may find a brief overview of the games that were played on Sunday. Also, in the early stage of competition we noticed first complaints on bad calls. Indonesian beach handball selection accused referees that they had intention to judge unfairly. The text below was transmitted from the Jakarta post newspaper.
“We received many bad calls from the referees, who might have assumed we did not understand the rules of the game,” assistant coach Sujarwo told reporters after is side’s 2-0 (18-10, 19-14) loss.
“We are all new to beach handball. But they were acting as if they knew everything and failed to uphold fairness.”
Sujarwo said other teams, such as Qatar and Thailand, had expressed the same concern over the quality of refereeing.
Throughout the game, which was played at Mertasari Beach in Sanur, coach Mustafa Mashyur called out in protest against the referees. He was reprimanded for this.
“We lodged protests so that such things would not happen to other teams in the future,” Mustafa said.
Mustafa said that after being defeated in the first set, his team fought harder in the second set to display better physical endurance than the Kuwaitis. But the advantage could not spare the Indonesians from defeat.
“They (Kuwait) looked overwhelmed by the searing heat entering the second set,” Mustafa said.
Indonesia needs a win over Pakistan, which beat Jordan 2- 0 (14-9, 23-14) Sunday, in the next group match on Monday to keep its hopes of winning a medal alive.
Kuwait’s coach Baseem Elsobky attributed his team’s victory to its better technique and power.
“However, Indonesia is a good team. They are good in technique and are very fast,” he added.
We hope that good games will substitute further complaints, so we could enjoy the beach handball.
Regarding to other games- 6 games were played, whereof 3 games in both category.
First group-women
 (INA) – Indonesia |
 (IND) – India |
20/10 | 09:00 |  STARTLIST RESULTS |
Indonesia lost the second game on ABG. Hence-they condoned from posibility to play semifinal.India was better and they won after shoot out (12-18, 15-9) (4:5)
Second group-men
 (THA) – Thailand |
 (HKG) – Hong Kong |
20/10 | 11:00 | STARTLIST RESULTS |
 (CHN) -China |
 (JPN) – Japan |
20/10 | 15:30 | STARTLIST RESULTS |
In the second group there is no surprises for now. Peoples republic of Chine continue to win. Today they celebrated after shoot out (18:10, 8-10) (5-2).The highest team of this competition (all girls are over 170 cm, and three of them have over 180 cm) now have 4 points and they could calmly wait following matches.
Thailand accomplished third victory against Hong Kong. Currently this is selection on top of the second group. By all parameters, tomorrow game against China will be crucial for the first place in group.
Group A
 (OMA) – Oman |
(JPN) – Japan |
20/10 | 10:00 | STARTLIST RESULTS |
| (THA) – Thailand |
 (QAT) – Qatar |
20/10 | 16:30 |
Oman won first two points on this competition against selection of Japan (18:12, 17:13). Currently they are on the third place of group A (with set difference 2-2). Tomorrow match between Qatar and Oman will be of crucial importance for ensuring the semifinal. Given that the selection of Qatar provided greater resistance to Thailand (they lost after shoot out 2:1, 8:9, 13:11, 6:5) then selection of Oman, we can say that Qatar is easy favorite in tomorrow match.
Group B
 (PAK) – Pakistan |
(INA) – Indonesia |
20/10 | 14:30 | STARTLIST RESULTS |
Pakistan got to the new victory against host selection, leavin Indonesia in difficult situation. svojim prepoznatljivim stilom došao do nove pobjede protiv domaćina ostavljajući tako domaćine u nezavidnoj situaciji. Indonesia do not depend only on their own games anymore and the will not probably play in semifinal. In fact, they must beat Jordan and if Jordan beats Kuwait they will have small chances to continue along.However, chanses for this denouement are minimal.
Table and the current order of teams you can see by clicking on the links below: