Friday, May 1, 2009
9:39 PM
World Table Tennis Championships - Mixed Doubles Misery
Singapore's biggest medal hope vanishes after both Yang Zi/Wang Yue Gu and Gao Ning/Feng Tianwei failed to progress in the Mixed Doubles Event. Sun Bei Bei add on to the list of casualty in the Women's Singles Event. Achieving a medal seems further and further away.

In the Women's Singles Event, Sun Bei Bei lost to Dutch Lady Li Jiao in a gruelling 7 games encounter. Meanwhile Yu Meng Yu was the player to spring the unexpected. She ended the hopes of Austria's Liu Jia, the No. 11th Seed. She will take on Japan's Ishikawa Kasumi. This Japanese young lady caused an upset against colleague Fukuoka Haruna.

Feng Tianwei had a revenge for Sun Bei Bei by ousting out another paddler from Netherlands, Li Jie. She will be facing a tough challenge tomorrow as her opponent is South Korea's Park Mi Young.

Singapore continued their good form in the Men's and Women's Doubles Event. Gao Ning/Yang Zi defeat Belarus' to reach the round of 16. Their opponent will be Russia's Kuzmin Fedor/Rubtsov Igor. 

Both Feng Tianwei/Wang Yue Gu and Sun Bei Bei/Yu Meng Yu crashed out their opponents with a convincing margin of 4-0 and 4-1 respectively. Feng/Wang will be taking on Poland's Partyka Natalia/Xu Jie, while Sun/Yu will have to face Hong Kong's Lin Ling/Zhang Rui.




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