Saturday, March 1, 2008
11:51 PM
World Team Table Tennis Championships 2008 - Winning Silver is equivalent to Gold!

Despite the Coach Liu Guo Dong claimed that they only had 1% of chances in winning the Chinese National Team, our paddlers still gave their best, and Li Jia Wei managed to win the opening match against World No. 3, Guo Yue, in straight games.

It was an remarkable achievement for Li Jia Wei, as Guo Yue has not lost to any Non-Chinese National Team Paddlers in the recent years. On top of that, in the 6 encounters Li had against Guo Yue, the odds were against Li, with Li winning only 1 game in the Korea Open 2004. However, Jia Wei still crashed Guo Yue 3-0.

21 year old, Feng Tian Wei had great preformance as well. Despite knowing that she will face World No.1, Zhang Yining, she still tried her best and fought hard. She managed to caused Zhang much problems and won the first set. Although Tianwei lost 3-1 eventually.

Wang Yue Gu played against Wang Nan in the third match. In the previous encounters, Yue Gu has never won Wang Nan. It was no surprise for today as well. However, she showed the World why she was the highest ranked Non-Chinese National Team player as she displayed a high level of skills. She lost 3-0 to Wang Nan.

In the fourth match, it was a match between the two leading players of the respective teams; Li Jia Wei against Zhang Yining. It was the same for Jia Wei. She has never won Yining in the previous encounters. Both trained together when young, before Li came over to Singapore. However, their skills were no longer on par today. Li lost once again to Zhang with a score of 3-1.

Our paddlers fought hard and lost with glory. Achieving Silver is as good as achieving Gold.




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