Archery
Men’s Team 1/8 Eliminations
Taiwan (Chen Szu-yuan, Kuo Cheng-wei, Wang Cheng-pang) def. United States (Brady Ellison, Richard Johnson, Victor Wunderle) 222-218
Men’s Team 1/4 Eliminations
Ukraine (Viktor Ruban, Markiyan Ivashko, Oleksandr Serdyuk) def. Taiwan 214-211
Badminton
Men’s Singles Round of 32
Hsieh Yu-hsing def. Tien Minh Nguyen (Vietnam) 2-1 (21-16, 15-21, 21-15)
Qualifies for today’s Round of 16
Women’s Doubles Round of 16
Wei Yili/Zhang Yawen (China) def. Chien Yu-chin/Cheng Wen-hsing 2-0 (21-14, 21-18)
Rowing
Men’s Single Sculls Quarter-Final 3
Wang Ming-hui placed 5th
Qualifies for tomorrow’s Semi-Final C/D
Sailing
RS:X Men Opening Series Race 1/10
Chang Hao placed 32nd of 35
RS:X Men Opening Series Race 2/10
Chang Hao placed 29th
Progressive rank: 30th
Races 3 and 4 continue today
Swimming
Women’s 200m Freestyle Heat 3
Yang Chin-kuei placed 7th
Eliminated
Men’s 200m Butterfly Heat 3
Hsu Chi-chieh placed 1st
Qualifies for today’s Semi-Final
Women’s 200m Individual Medley Heat 1
Lin Man-hsu placed 5th
Eliminated
Tennis
Men’s Singles First Round
Lu Yen-hsun def. Andy Murray (Great Britain) 7-6 (7/5), 6-4
Qualifies for today’s Second Round
Women’s Singles First Round
Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) def. Chan Yung-jan 6-1, 7-6 (8/6)
Weightlifting
Men’s 62kg Group B
Yang Sheng-hsiung placed 2nd
Qualified for Group A preliminary round
Men’s 62kg Group A
Yang Sheng-hsiung
Eliminated in preliminary round
Taiwanese world No. 1 women’s doubles star Hsieh Su-wei on Saturday overcame a first-set loss to win her opening match at the Madrid Open. Top seeds Hsieh and partner Elise Mertens of Belgium, with whom she last month won her fourth Indian Wells women’s doubles title, bounced back from a rocky first set to beat Asia Muhammad of the US and Aldila Sutjiadi of Indonesia 2-6, 6-4, 10-2. Hsieh and Mertens were next to face Heather Watson of the UK and Xu Yifan of China in the round of 16. Thirty-eight-year-old Hsieh last month reclaimed her world No. 1 spot after her Indian
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Chen Yi-tung (陳奕通) secured a historic Olympic berth on Sunday by winning the senior men’s foil event at the 2024 Asia Oceania Zonal Olympic Fencing Qualifiers in United Arab Emirates. Chen defeated Samuel Elijah of Singapore 15-4 in the final in Dubai to secure the only wild card in the event, making him the first male Olympian fencer from Taiwan in 36 years and only the sixth Taiwanese fencer to ever qualify for the quadrennial event. The last appearance by a Taiwanese male fencer at the Olympics was in 1988, when Wang San-tsai (王三財) and Cheng Ming-hsiang (鄭明祥) competed in Seoul. The
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