CHENGDU, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) — China, Japan, and South Korea continued their undefeated streaks because the second stage of the inaugural International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Mixed Team World Cup reached its midpoint right here on Thursday.
China confronted minimal opposition from Chinese Taipei, dropping just one recreation within the blended doubles on its solution to victory.
Top-ranked pair Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha overcame a difficult late stage to prevail 11-5, 11-7, 9/11 over Yang Chia-An and Li Yu-Jhun.
Olympic champions Chen Meng and Ma Long demonstrated their prowess, contributing three factors every for China of their respective singles matches.
In their night matchup towards France, China secured one other comfy 8-1 victory.
After Wang and Sun dominated Yuan Jianan and Alexis Lebrun 11-1, 11-8, 11-3, Wang Manyu prolonged China’s result in six video games with an 11-5, 11-5, 13-11 victory over Prithika Pavade within the ladies’s singles.
Despite a setback within the second recreation to French prodigy Felix Lebrun, world No. 1 Fan Zhendong rallied to seal the hosts’ victory as he triumphed 11-7, 9/11, 13-11 within the males’s singles.
Japan confronted a more difficult contest towards Sweden. After Japan led 7-2 after the boys’s singles, Kristian Karlsson and Anton Kallberg gave Sweden hope of a comeback by sweeping previous Tomokazu Harimoto and Shunsuke Togami 11-9, 11-4, 12-10 within the males’s doubles, lowering the deficit to 2 video games. But Miwa Harimoto and Hina Hayata gained 11-3 within the first recreation of the ladies’s doubles to halt Sweden’s rally.
Later that day, Japan maintained its successful kind towards Slovakia 8-2.
After overwhelming Slovakia 8-0 within the day session, South Korea defeated Sweden 8-2 to register its third consecutive victory within the second stage.
Also on Thursday, Germany bounced again from an 8-4 loss to France within the morning to beat Chinese Taipei 8-2.
With three rounds remaining, China leads the standings with eight factors and a win-loss file of 32-3 in video games, with Japan and South Korea following in second and third, respectively.
China will play towards Germany on Friday, whereas Japan and South Korea are set for a conflict of their try to emerge as champions. The different two matches of the day characteristic France towards Chinese Taipei, and Sweden towards Slovakia.
Using an progressive blended staff format, the match continues via Sunday, with the staff attaining the most effective total outcome to be topped champion.