Home>News Center>Sports
             
     

    Chinese girls keep winning streak in table tennis
    (Xinhua)
    Updated: 2004-08-18 09:05

    Following their doubles wins Monday evening, the Chinese female paddlers kept their winning streak Tuesday in the singles competition of the table tennis tournament at the 2004 Athens Olympiad, with all three players entering the last 16.

    However, Sydney Olympic double champion Wang Nan and world cup singles winner Niu Jianfeng, ranked 2nd and 3rd in the world respectively, were given some real big scares by their much-lower-ranked rivals from the DPR Korea and Germany.

    The highly-seeded Niu, who played her first singles match Tuesday evening though the competition had entered its third round, was unexpectedly pushed to the edge of precipice by 46th-ranked Elke Wosik as she lost the first two games by the same score of 12-14 and trailed 1-3 behind the German in the first four games.

    Fortunately, the German seemed to have lost her control of the match all of a sudden, and allowed Niu to stage a miraculous comeback and win 4-3.

    "It was a very difficult match for me. It's all blank in my head and please don't ask me anything," said a pale-faced Niu after the match.

    "Niu has played too soft in the opening games and that gave the German a great chance," commented Lu Yuansheng, coach of the Chinese women 's team.

    Wosik, who wept after the match probably for having missed a great opportunity to produce the biggest upset so far in the tournament, said that she lost the last three games because her physical strength could no longer afford such an intense match.

    "But I think I have proved that I can play equal with the world's top paddlers," she said.

    In her encounter with 51st-ranked Kim Yun Mi of the DPR Korea, Wang Nan found it hard to get into her best form quickly and also seemed to be troubled by her opponent's perfect defense and powerful counterattacks. It was not until the fourth game, when she was already 1-2 down, that Wang came to her real self and took the next three games in a row to win 4-2.

    Wang's career reached its lowest ebb in 2002 after she lost two crucial matches to the DPR Koreans in the team final at the Busan Asiad. However, she managed to restore her past glory by taking three titles in women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doublesat the Paris world championships the next year.

    In another third round match played on Tuesday morning, China'sworld No 1 Zhang Yining, who had been drawn to the different half, crushed New Zealand veteran player Li Chunli 4-0 with little difficulty.

    "I played much better today than in yesterday's doubles match. I had been nervous in my first match in the tournament, but today I feel much more relaxed," said Zhang.

    The 42-year-old Li, the eldest female player in the Olympic tournament who had played for China in the prime time of her career, attracted much media attention after she claimed Monday that she would turn out to be the winner in the match with Zhang.

    After Tuesday's matches, Asian players have assumed an overwhelming dominance in the last 16 of women's singles, with three seats each for China and Japan, two each for Chinese Hong Kong, Singapore and the DPR Korea, and one for South Korea.

    The Europeans only have three representatives in the next round, namely Viktoria Pavlovich of Belarussia, Tamara Boros of Croatia and Adriana Zamfir of Romania.



     
      Today's Top News     Top Sports News
     

    Natural disaster affects almost 13 million

     

       
     

    Official gets death for stealing relics

     

       
     

    China: US sending "wrong signal" to terrorists

     

       
     

    China cracks down on "phone sex" services

     

       
     

    Japanese snakehead deported from China

     

       
     

    Beijing highway boss to be arrested for bribe

     

       
      Chinese girls keep winning streak in table tennis
       
      A straight shooter wins first medal for Emirates
       
      Romania claim women's gymnastics team title
       
      Yao Ming takes anger out on New Zealand
       
      Chinese women footballers hope dims out
       
      China grabs 5 more golds, tops medal tally
       
     
      Go to Another Section  
     
     
      Story Tools  
       
    Advertisement
             
    亚洲av中文无码| 日韩精品无码一区二区三区AV| 一本精品中文字幕在线| 人妻丰满熟妇av无码区不卡| 最近中文字幕视频在线资源| 欧洲精品久久久av无码电影| 亚洲中文字幕伊人久久无码| 精品久久久无码人妻中文字幕| 无码精品国产一区二区三区免费| xx中文字幕乱偷avxx| 成人性生交大片免费看中文| 国产成人无码精品久久久免费 | 亚洲AV无码专区电影在线观看| 中文字幕aⅴ人妻一区二区 | 激情无码人妻又粗又大中国人| 精品国产aⅴ无码一区二区| 日本中文字幕在线2020| 中文无码喷潮在线播放| 四虎成人精品国产永久免费无码| 亚洲精品~无码抽插| 蜜桃无码AV一区二区| 亚洲毛片网址在线观看中文字幕| 中文字幕有码无码AV| 伊人久久一区二区三区无码| 亚洲熟妇少妇任你躁在线观看无码| 高清无码视频直接看| 精品无码久久久久久尤物| 色欲狠狠躁天天躁无码中文字幕 | 高潮潮喷奶水飞溅视频无码| 最近更新中文字幕第一页| 日韩av无码中文无码电影| 永久免费无码日韩视频| 在线精品自拍无码| 中文一国产一无码一日韩| 国产精品中文久久久久久久| 亚洲一区无码精品色| 中文字字幕在线中文无码| 一本大道香蕉中文日本不卡高清二区 | 久久久久无码中| 无码专区6080yy国产电影| 亚洲国产精品无码久久久久久曰 |