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Chan relied on a solid backhand and a strong serve at Macau Tennis Academy, closing with a deft backhand winner in 1 hour, 19 minutes.
The match had to be stopped several times as Chan Chin-wei received treatment for lower back pain, but Chan Yung-jan said that didn't effect her game.
"It didn't bother me," said Chan, who has been a professional for 18 months and is ranked No. 210 on the women's tour.
"That happens all the time in tennis and I just tried to stay focused and play my game."
In a men's semifinal, Taiwan's Wang Yeu-tzuoo (王宇佐) had a 6-2, 6-2 victory over South Korea's Kwon Oh-hee to book a place in today's final, where he'll face Japan's Toshihide Matsui, a 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 winner over South Korea's Lee Seung-hoon.
Elsewhere, Kwon Hyung-tae withdrew from the men's doubles due to injury, giving compatriots Kim Dong-hyun and Kwon Oh-hee a walkover victory for the gold medal.
Taiwan finished women's basketball preliminaries undefeated after a 63-58 win over South Korea. The same teams will meet again in today's semifinals.
China (3-1) will face Japan (2-2) in the other semifinal.
Japan more than doubled its gold-medal haul to 21 yesterday with a scintillating performance on the track which breathed life into its East Asian Games campaign.
Another one-two in the men's and women's 400m helped Japan claim 10 out of 13 athletics events and 11 from 18 overall as competition continued.
Runaway leader China, which dominated the first five days, snapped up the three remaining athletics titles to move its massive total on to 78 gold medals out of a possible 132. Third-placed South Korea claimed three more golds to reach 14.
Japan's distance runners enjoyed a bumper morning with Toshinari Fujimoto winning the men's half-marathon in one hour, eight minutes and 14 seconds from South Korea's Huh Jang-kyu.
Yoshiko Ichikawa won the women's half-marathon in 1:16:31 and Yoshitaka Iwamizu took the men's steeplechase.
But more was to come from Japan, whose vaunted swimmers were blown out of the water by China late on Wednesday.
China's Chen Lisha, who won the women's 200m on Wednesday, built up a huge lead in the 4x100 before Ni Xiaoli was pegged back by Rina Fukimaki on the third leg. Ayumi Suzuki closed out the win.
In the men's relay, Taiwan also led until the third leg before being reeled in by Yusuke Omae and Shinya Saburi as Japan clocked 39.61. China finished third.
Revelations of positive doping tests for nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers that went unpunished sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the head of the US drug-fighting organization, who has long been one of WADA’s fiercest critics. WADA on Saturday said it was turning to legal counsel to address a statement released by US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart, who said WADA and anti-doping authorities in China swept positive tests “under the carpet by failing to fairly and evenly follow the global rules that apply to everyone else in the world.” The
Taiwanese judoka Yang Yung-wei on Saturday won silver in the men’s under-60kg category at the Asian Judo Championships in Hong Kong. Nicknamed the “judo heartthrob” in Taiwan, the Olympic silver-medalist missed out on his first Asian Championships gold when he lost to Japanese judoka Taiki Nakamura in the finals. Yang defeated three opponents on Saturday to reach the final after receiving a bye through the round of 32. He first topped Laotian Soukphaxay Sithisane in the round of 16 with two seoi nage (over-the-shoulder throws), then ousted Indian Vijay Kumar Yadav in the quarter-finals with his signature ude hishigi sankaku gatame (triangular armlock). He
RALLY: It was only the second time the Taiwanese has partnered with Kudermetova, and the match seemed tight until they won seven points in a row to take the last set 10-2 Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova on Sunday won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix women’s doubles final in Stuttgart, Germany. The pair defeated Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia’s Ingrid Neel 4-6, 6-3, 10-2 in a tightly contested match at the WTA 500 tournament. Chan and Kudermetova fell 4-6 in the first set after having their serve broken three times, although they played increasingly well. They fought back in the second set and managed to break their opponents’ serve in the eighth game to triumph 6-3. In the tiebreaker, Chan and Kudermetova took a 3-0 lead before their opponents clawed back two points, but
Taiwanese gymnast Lee Chih-kai failed to secure an Olympic berth in the pommel horse following a second-place finish at the last qualifier in Doha on Friday, a performance that Lee and his coach called “unconvincing.” The Tokyo Olympics silver medalist finished runner-up in the final after scoring 6.6 for degree of difficulty and 8.800 for execution for a combined score of 15.400. That was just 0.100 short of Jordan’s Ahmad Abu Al Soud, who had qualified for the event in Paris before the Apparatus World Cup series in Qatar’s capital. After missing the final rounds in the first two of four qualifier