Day 3: Chinese Claim all Team Titles on Offer
New Delhi, July 22: The Chinese invasion at the Thyagaraj Stadium on Friday was complete. And the rampaging champions just completed the demolition act, winning all the four team championship titles-boys, girls, cadet boys and cadet girls-to stamp their authority in the NCC 17th Asian Table Tennis championships. Not that anybody had even an iota of doubt about their superiority. But what may have warmed up the hearts of their opponents is the number of games they finally managed to take a few games off the Chinese in the finals. Japan’s Asuka Sakai, who opened their campaign, must have felt happy after having managed the second game at 14-12 after badly losing the first 11-6. But that was all he could do against Gaoyuan Lin. But Jiani Wu beat Maharu Yoshimura 16-14, 11-7, 11-8 and Hang Yin beat Yuto Muramatsu 11-7, 7-11, 11-8, 11-7. As for the other results, they were along expected lines. Results: Junior boys: Final: China beat Japan 3-0 (Lin Gaoyuan bt Asuka Semifinals: China beat India 3-0 (Lin Gaoyuan bt Harmeet Desai 11-7, Junior girls Final: China beat Korea 3-0 (Gu Yuting bt Choi Jung Min Semifinals: China bt Chinese Taipei 3-0; Korea bt Japan 3-1. For places 5-8: India beat Singapore 3-2 (Reeth Rishya Tennison bt Cadet boys: Final: China beat Chinese Taipei 3-0 (Zhou Kai bt Liao Semifinals: China bt Korea 3-0; Chinese Taipei 3-0. Cadet girls Final: Liu Gaoyang bt Lee Zion 11-7, 11-8, 11-8; Zhu Semifinals: China bt Chinese Taipei 3-0; Korea bt Hong Kong 3-2. |