Table Tennis
Chinese Duo Xu Xin & Liu Shiwen Topple Defending Champions to be Crowned Mixed Doubles World Champions
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Friday, 26 April 2019 18:55
XU XIN & LIU SHIWEN CROWNED WORLD CHAMPIONS The biggest event of the day saw an outstanding showdown unfold between Chinese and Japanese stars in the Mixed Doubles final, delivering the first silverware of this year’s World Championships. 2017 World Champions and third seeds in Budapest, Maharu YOSHIMURA and Kasumi ISHIKAWA (JPN) put up a strong fight, but second seeds…
Tunis proves welcoming home for North African initiative
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Saturday, 27 April 2019 02:06
Overall, 14 boys and nine girls plus five coaches attended, in addition to Tunisia, players and coaches travelled from Algeria and Egypt. “The objective of the training camp was to further develop the hopes and cadet players within North Africa; they are identified as a core focus in the development plan to create a new generation of players.” Hisham Ismail…
Team World Cup experience, Parleen Kaur heads host nation challenge
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Saturday, 27 April 2019 02:45
Notably in addition to her appearance in England’s capital city, Parleen Kaur was on duty in a very different climate later in the year; in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands she was the junior girls’ singles runner up, a tournament in which colleague Michelle Wu also excelled, she reached the semi-final round. In Darwin, Parleen Kaur is the no.3 seed…
Preview Day Seven: High stakes as penultimate day arrives, who will rise to the occasion?
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Friday, 26 April 2019 16:18
The stakes are high right from the start of play with the mixed doubles final getting underway from 12.00pm local time. Impressive throughout the course of the competition China’s Ma Long and Wang Chuqin will be the hot favourites to lift the trophy but Romania’s Ovidiu Ionescu and Spain’s Alvaro Robles have completely defied expectations so far in Budapest and…
5 Things we learnt from Day Six in Budapest
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Friday, 26 April 2019 14:16
New women’s singles champion will be crowned A new name will be added to the list of women’s singles gold medallists after defending champion Ding Ning’s campaign concluded in dramatic fashion at the hands of two-time runner up Liu Shiwen (6-11, 9-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-0, 11-2). Chen Meng came through the other semi-final encounter, posting a thunderous 4-0 victory over…
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