CHENGDU, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) — Guo Hanyu and Jiang Xinyu of China clinched a snug victory to safe a quarterfinal spot within the ladies’s doubles tennis at Chengdu Universiade, whereas their males compatriots Gu Jin and Zhao Zhao suffered a defeat in opposition to Japanese duo on Tuesday.
Guo and Jiang demonstrated their prowess on the court docket as they simply defeated South Korean Moon Jeong and Oh Eun-ji 6-0, 6-2 for his or her quarterfinal berth.
Guo, who received the ladies’s doubles gold medal with Ye Qiuyu at 2019 Naples Universiade, emphasised the importance of sustaining focus, notably when taking part in on the central court docket with sizeable viewers.
In the lads’s doubles pair, Gu and Zhao confronted a formidable problem from Japanese Shinji Hazawa and Ryotaro Taguchi, dropping 6-7(4), 6-2, and 10-4 within the second spherical.