HANGZHOU, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) — Japan continued their dominance in wheelchair tennis on the Hangzhou Asian Para Games with 5 golds from six occasions as the game’s competitions concluded right here on Friday, whereas hosts China clinched three medals within the ladies’s occasions.
Spearheaded by veteran Zhu Zhenzhen, China despatched six athletes to compete within the males’s and ladies’s singles and doubles occasions. Zhu is China’s first ever wheelchair tennis participant to compete at a Grand Slam, the place she defeated defending champion and world No. 1 Diede de Groot of the Netherlands to achieve the singles semifinals on the 2020 Australian Open.
The present world No. 5 eradicated Han In-kyung of South Korea and compatriot Wang Ziying to arrange a remaining showdown in opposition to outdated rival and world No. 1 Yui Kamiji of Japan on Thursday.
Facing off the eight-time Grand Slam singles winner, Zhu could not work out a great way to deal with Kamiji’s fierce offense, permitting the Japanese to retain her Asian Para Games title.
“I am familiar with Zhu. I played with her a couple of times and I knew more about her game skills. She has won some prizes as well, so I am happy to win over her,” mentioned Kamiji after the ultimate.
China’s Wang edged compatriot Guo Luoyao to take the bronze.
Kamiji’s singles triumph got here two days after she transformed her doubles silvers from the Jakarta and Incheon Games to a gold by defeating China’s Zhu/Guo 6-4, 6-3 with teammate Manami Tanaka.
On the lads’s aspect, it was an all-Japanese singles remaining for the fourth consecutive time on the Asian Para Games, with 17-year-old sensation and world No. 1 Tokito Oda claiming the gold medal. Takashi Sanada took the silver and Takuya Miki, additionally of Japan, rounded out the rostrum.
Dong Shunjiang misplaced to Miki within the bronze medal match, although it is already the most effective end to date for China’s male wheelchair tennis athletes on the Asian Para Games.
South Korea’s Im Ho-won and Han Sung-bong received the lads’s doubles, whereas Koji Sugeno of Japan emerged victorious within the quad singles and quad doubles with teammate Daisuke Ishito.