Key navigation for JTable

I have a JTable and i need to select its rows during key navigation.
Say i have 23 columns in this table and just for test purposes everytime on keypressed i want to select 2nd row. I am doing it in following way within KeyPressed Event.
int[] indexes = table.getSelectedRows();
table.requestFocus();
int[] cols = table.getSelectedColumns();
for (int xx=0; xx<cols.length; xx++ )
table.removeColumnSelectionInterval(cols[xx],cols[xx]);
table.removeRowSelectionInterval(indexes[0],indexes[0]);
table.setColumnSelectionInterval(0,22);
table.setRowSelectionInterval(2,2);
But this doesn't seem to work on keypressed event although it works fine if i call it from some other place like a button pressed. Any help gurus ???
TIA

Sorry i missed to mention what it actually seems to do. It only selected the 1st column when this piece of code is called from KeyPressed Event.
But when the same code is called from any other place it selects all the 23 columns.
I will appreciate any help on this bottleneck problem for me.

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