Friday, September 5, 2008
6:53 PM
Volkswagen Women's World Cup 2008 - Draws

Top seed in 2008 Women's World Cup in the Malaysian capital city is China's Guo Yue, the reigning world champion with colleague Li Xiaoxia, the player she beat in the Women's Singles final at the Liebherr World Championships in 2007, seeded two.

Singapore's Li Jia Wei, who gained fourth places in the Women's Singles event at the Beijing and Athens Olympic Games, is seeded three with compatriot, Wang Yue Gu, the winner at the Brazilian Open earlier in the year, seeded four.

Group A
In the group stage Guo Yue faces strong opposition from Hong Kong's Jiang Huajun and the Dominican Republic's Wu Xue; the former a player with arguably the most powerful backhand in female table tennis, the latter a Women's Singles quarter-finalists at the Beijing Olympics. Yang Fen of Congo Brazzaville, the African champion, completes the group.

Group B
Strong opposition for Guo Yue and also for Li Xiaoxia; she confronts Singapore's Feng Tianwei, a player who impressed at the Olympics and has made a meteoric rise to table tennis stardom in the past twelve months. Also, in the group appear two continental champions who have experience and may well ask questions; the players being Li Jiao from the Netherlands, the European champion and Miao Miao from Australia, the Oceania champion.

Group C
Meanwhile, for both Li Jia Wei and Wang Yue Gu they can afford no lapses of concentration.

Li Jia Wei faces Hong Kong's talented Tie Yana plus the experienced Gao Jun of the United States and one of Europe's rising hopes, Hungary's Georgina Pota.

Gao Jun penhold grip play has caused Jiawei many problems in recent years. Li lost to Gao twice earlier this year at the Croatia Open and China Open.

Group D
Similarly there are testing opponents for Wang Yue Gu. She confronts the defensive skills of Korea's Kim Kyung Ah, the replacement for Zhang Yining plus Romania's determined Daniela Dodean and the representative from Malaysia, Beh Lee Wei.




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