HANGZHOU, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) — Japan struck double gold medals in tender tennis of the Hangzhou Asian Games following victories over Chinese Taipei within the males’s and girls’s group finals right here on Wednesday.
The opening match set the tone for what was to comply with. Noa Takahashi and Emina Watanabe let a 4-2 lead slip however recovered in time to edge a nail-biting doubles match 5-4 in opposition to Kuo Chien-Chi and Lo Shu-Ting of Chinese Taipei.
However, the skilled Cheng Chu-Ling, a combined doubles gold medallist on the 2018 Asian Games, hit again to degree the ultimate at one match apiece, defeating Kurumi Onoue of Japan 4-2 of their singles conflict.
It seemed set to be Chinese Taipei’s day when Huang Shih Yuan and Hsu Chiao Ying swiftly took a 3-0 lead in opposition to Tomomi Shimuta and Haruka Kubo within the decisive doubles match. But Huang and Hsu had been unable to carry on because the Japanese pair rallied, profitable 5 straight video games to clinch gold.
“Two of my golds have been with the women’s team. I have got a lot of my power from my teammates. That’s perhaps the secret to how I was able to win again this time,” stated Takahashi.
In the afternoon, Japan went on to win the boys’s group gold on the expense of Chinese Taipei as effectively. Takafumi Uchimoto and Sora Hirooka of Japan received the opening doubles over Yu Kai-wen and Lin Wei-chieh 5-3, earlier than Toshiki Uematsu sealed the match by beating Chang Yu-sung 4-1 within the singles.
“I think I can give myself the perfect score of 100 for winning the gold medal. But in terms of my performance, I was not in good condition,” stated Uematsu.
“I could not go back to the past so I chose each shot very carefully, and adjusted them one by one. I think that is how I won.”
China misplaced to Chinese Taipei 2-0 in girls’s group semifinal earlier.