Taiwanese table tennis duo Huang Yi-hua and Huang Yu-jie on Friday won the women doubles final in three straight games at the WTT Feeder Dusseldorf in Germany.
Huang Yi-hua and Huang Yu-jie toppled France’s Oceane Guisne and Stephanie Loeuillette 11-8, 11-9, 11-8 in just 26 minutes, 42 seconds, at the Deutsches Tischtennis-Zentrum.
In the first two games, Huang Yi-hua and Huang Yu-jie shot ahead and maintained their lead to the close.
Guisne and Loeuillette rallied in the third to lead 8-5, but Huang Yi-hua and Huang Yu-jie fought hard, racking up six points in a row to turn the tables and win the match.
The Taiwanese duo’s stellar performance at the tournament began earlier this week, when they outplayed Italy’s Giorgia Piccolin and Debora Vivarelli 11-4, 8-11, 11-7, 11-8 in the round of 16, and beat China’s Wu Yangchen and Qi Fei 11-9, 11-8, 11-9 in the quarter-finals.
From there, they sailed past Germany’s Schreiner Franziska and Sophia Klee 8-11, 11-4, 11-9, 11-2 in the semi-finals to book their spot in the final.
In the men’s doubles, China’s Cao Wei and Sai Linwei triumphed, while Germany won the men’s singles, women’s singles and mixed doubles.
Annett Kaufmann, 16, and Cedric Meissner, 22, were crowned WTT Feeder event champions for the first time, after they defeated China’s Xu Yi 12-10, 10-12, 5-11, 11-6, 11-4 and Belgium’s Florent Lambiet 14-12, 11-8, 11-7 in the women’s and men’s finals respectively.
Meissner paired up with Germany’s Yuan Wan to dispatch Argentina’s Horacio Cifuentes and Arguelles Camila in the mixed doubles final.
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