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PARIS — Kanak Jha has secured the U.S. its best Olympic run in men's table tennis by reaching the last 16 at the Paris Games. He beat Panagiotis Gionis of Greece 4-2 to top Jimmy Butler's round-of-32 appearance at the 1992 Barcelona Games. The shock of the tournament came when world No. 1 Wang Chuqin of China lost to 26th-ranked Truls Moregard of Sweden. Luxembourg's 61-year-old Ni Xia Lian was eliminated in women's singles. French teenage sensation Felix Lebrun reached the last eight in the men's singles by defeating Dimitrij Ovtcharov 4-3 despite squandering a 3-0 lead.
