Chinese Wang Nan returns the ball during a Group A match with Czech Republic during the team event of the 48th World Table Tennis Championships in Bremen, north Germany, April 24, 2006. China beat Czech Republic 3-0. (Xinhua photo)

Chinese Guo Yan serves during a Group A match with Czech Republic during the team event of the 48th World Table Tennis Championships in Bremen, north Germany, April 24, 2006. China beat Czech Republic 3-0. (Xinhua photo)

    BREMEN, Germany, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Top Chinese table tennis official Cai Zhenhua said here Monday that the performance of his country's women paddlers count only score 70 marks out of 100, despite they won the first round group contests.

    Cai made the comment to Xinhua after the Chinese players, ZhangYining, Wang Nan and Guo Yan beat their Czech rivals at 3-0 at the 48th World Table Tennis Team Championships in the women's group competitions.

    Cai said that Zhang and Guo were in quite good form, but Wang was slow to find her best form.

    The coaches would talk to her afterwards to help her better handle the remaining competitions, he said, adding that the group match was also a process of adjusting.

    He said if the full mark were 100, he would give 70 to the three girls in terms of their performance and form.

    Coaches should consider readjusting their technical strategies in the forthcoming matches, Cai said.

    Zhang Yining, world and Olympic champion, defeated the Czech Republic's Jana Dobesova at 3-0 without any surprise.

    Novice Guo Yan played the last singles but had an easy win against Matina Smistikova at 3-0.

    But veteran Wang Nan, former world and Olympic champion, had a hard time in playing against her Czech rival Renata Strbikova.

    Wang lost her first two games at 8-11 and 7-11 and gradually adjusted herself into form in the last three games by winning the third and fourth games at 11-4 and 12-10.

    In the fifth game, Wang overtook Strbikova from 1-3 down and went all the way to wrap the match 11-3. Enditem