Taiwan’s Chien Tung-chan and partner Tsai Yun-en yesterday blanked Japan in the women’s doubles table tennis quarter-finals at the Summer World University Games in Essen, Germany.
The Taiwanese duo, who already won a bronze medal on Saturday as part of Taiwan’s women’s table tennis team, dominated Sakura Aoi and Kyoka Idesawa 11-6, 11-4 in the first two games, before the Japanese pair put on the pressure in the third, which the Taiwanese still took 14-12.
Chien and Tsai’s swift 11-6 fourth game sealed the victory, sending them to last night’s semi-finals, where they were to face China’s Han Feier and Wang Xiaotong, who earlier beat Hong Kong’s Ng Wing Lam and Wong Hoi tung.
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Chien also beat Slovakia’s Ema Labosova 4-1 in the women’s singles round-of-16, while Huang Yu-jie beat Camille Lutz of France 4-2 and Cheng Pu-syuan lost 4-3 to Ng.
Chien was after press time last night to play China’s Zhao Shang in the quarter-finals, while Huang was to play Japan’s Mana Asada.
In the men’s singles, Feng Yi-hsin beat Romanian Andre Istrate 4-0 to advance to the quarter-finals, while Kao Cheng-jui beat China’s Chen Junsong 4-1 to advance.
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Feng and Kao were part of the men’s team who defeated China 3-2 for the gold medal on Sunday.
Elsewhere yesterday, the Taiwan’s men’s kyorugi taekwondo team beat Thailand 2-0 to advance to last night’s semi-finals against Uzbekistan, while the women’s team crashed out in their quarter-final against Thailand, losing 2-0.
In women’s shot put on Tuesday, Chiang Ching-yuan of National Taiwan Sport University finished sixth in the final, throwing 16.97m on her fifth attempt.
That beat her 16.6m qualifying toss that put her third in Group A and sixth overall.
The Taiwan men’s foil team finished seventh overall, beating France 45-33.
The team of Chen Chih-chieh, Chen Yi-tung, Hsu Sheng-hung and Yueh Che-hao advanced with a 45-33 victory over Britain, but were pipped 45-44 by Japan in their quarter-final. Taiwan lost their first match for placement to Germany 45-37, before defeating France.
In the men’s 100m butterfly, 23-year-old Taiwanese swimmer Wang Huang-hung from National Taiwan Normal University finished in 52.18 seconds, gaining three spots from his eighth place ranking to take fifth, 0.78 seconds behind winner Gianmarco Sansone of Italy.
As of press time last night, Taiwan had won 11 medals — two golds, five silvers and four bronzes.
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