Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal has crashed out of the World Table Tennis Championships, taking place at Rotterdam, Netherlands. He suffered a shocking 11-8, 9-11, 8-11, 7-11, 9-11 defeat against a lower-ranked Chinese Taipei's Chen Chien-An in the first round yesterday. In the men's doubles category, the Commonwealth Games doubles gold medallists duo of Sharath and Subhajit Saha also failed to live up to their reputation and were defeated by the North Korean pair of Kim Nam Chol and Ri Chol Guk 4-11, 12-10, 13-15, 7-11, 7-11 in the first round. In the women's singles event, Madhurika Patkar, Mouma Das and Poulomi Ghatak failed to get past the first hurdle and lost to higher-seeded opponents. However, the Indian challenge is not yet over in the week-long championship. Amalraj Anthony and Soumyadeep Roy will play in their singles consolation matches while Shamini Kumaresan and Mamata Prabhu will feature in the women's singles consolation matches today.