Friday, December 14, 2007
11:47 PM
Volkswagen Pro Tour Grand Finals 2007 - Safe Passage for Li and Wang in the Opening Round
Li Jia Wei has experienced her heartaches against Japan's Haruna Fukuoka in the past. In their 3 previous meetings, Li lost with a margin of 4-0, 4-3 and 4-1. But it would seem that those days are now resigned to history. Recently in the Women's Team event at the China Mobile Asian Championships in Yangzhou, Jia Wei won most impressively against the Japanese star. Today, Li once again recorded a comfortable victory against an adversary who had been her nemesis in previous years. She beat Haruna Fukuoka in 5 games, having to recover from an opening game deficit to win 6-11, 11-7, 11-7, 11-6, 11-1.

Soon after Jia Wei's victory, Wang Yuegu too has won. She overcame Germany's Wu Jiaduo in 6 games. Wang won 11-5, 3-11, 11-3, 8-11, 11-5, 11-6.

However, there was also defeats. Sun Bei Bei lost to China's Li Xiaoxia. However, Sun caused Xiaoxia illustrious adversary endless problems before eventually having to accept defeat. Li Xiaoxia won 9-11, 11-4, 13-11, 11-6, 11-6.




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