Saturday, March 15, 2008
1:03 AM
ITTF Pro Tour Kuwait Open - Female Paddlers occupy 5 out of 16 places!
It was an amazing day for our female paddlers. Especially for Yu Meng Yu and Feng Tian Wei. They both caused a major upset in the Main Draw, to join their collegues Li Jia Wei, Wang Yue Gu and Sun Bei Bei in the round of 16.

The ever consistent Yu Meng Yu defeated World No. 10, Hong Kong's Tie Yana, 4-1. While Feng Tian Wei overcame Hong Kong's No. 1 paddler, Jiang Hua Jun in straight games.

With such fantastic results, our female paddlers occupy 5 out of the 16 places available. China occupy the other 6 places.

In tomorrow's match, Meng Yu and Tian Wei will face one another for a place in the quarter finals. Wang Yue Gu will take on Germany's Top Paddler, Wu Jia Duo. Sun Bei Bei will face World No.2, China's Li Xiao Xia, whilst Li Jia Wei will take on the teenager, also from China, Liu Shi Wen.

However, our male paddlers did not do so well. Gao Ning, Yang Zi and Liu Zhong Ze were the only survivors from the first round. In the 2nd round, none of them were able to proceed to the round of 16. Gao Ning lost to China's Zhang Jike. Meanwhile, Yang Zi lost to World No. 4, Ma Long, another player from China.

Failure in the Senior Competition, Guo Yi Teng enjoyed success in the U21 qualifying group stages. He emerged 1st in his group and will take on 2nd Seeded, Skachkov Kirill in his first match.

Ma Liang and Liu Zhong Ze is the 3rd and 4th Seeded respectively. Yu Meng Yu is the 2nd Seeded in the U21 Girls' Singles Event.

Doubles Events and U21 Events will be conducted later in the day.




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