HANGZHOU, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) — Chinese paddlers booked the 2 ultimate spots of blended doubles on Friday to safe the title within the desk tennis match on the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Top seeded blended pair Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha knocked down Lim Jonghoon and Shin Yubin from South Korea 4-0 (11-6, 11-6, 11-8, 11-8) within the semifinals, whereas Lin Gaoyuan and Wang Yidi booked the opposite ultimate spot by beating one other South Korean pair Jang Woojin and Jeon Jihee 4-1 (11-9, 11-4, 8-11, 11-6, 11-7).
In the lads’s singles spherical of 16, Chinese paddlers Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin, the highest two seeds on the occasion, smashed their opponents 3-0 respectively to enter the quarterfinals, and Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto superior to the quarterfinals after beating Iranian “Backhand Man” Noshad Alamiyan Darounkolaei 4-2 (11-9, 12-10, 11-8, 5-11, 10-12, 12-10).
In the ladies’s singles spherical of 16, Pyon Songgyong from DPR Korea defeated sixth seed Miu Hirano of Japan 4-2 (11-7, 7-11, 12-10, 4-11, 11-5, 11-8), and she’s going to meet world No.1 Sun Yingsha in quarterfinals.
South Korean pair An Jaehyun and Park Ganghyeon, seeded third within the occasion, had been defeated by Japan’s Taisei Matsushita and Mizuki Oikawa 3-0 (11-7, 11-8, 11-8) within the males’s doubles spherical of 16.
In the ladies’s doubles spherical of 16, Japanese pair Miwa Harimoto and Miyuu Kihara sailed previous Akula Sreeja and Chitale Diya Parag from India 3-0 (11-3, 11-5, 11-8), and they’ll face Chinese pair Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu who smashed Lee Hoching and Li Chingwan from Hong Kong, China 3-0 (11-2, 11-3, 11-3).