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11 верасня 2024, 11:58
Olympic champs Sun, Wang make winning starts at WTT Champions in Macao
MACAO, 11 September (BelTA - China Daily) - China's Olympic gold
medalists Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu triumphed in Monday's opening
action at the 2024 World Table Tennis (WTT) Champions Macao, at the
Macao East Asian Games Dome.
World No. 1 Sun beat South Korea's
Jeon Ji-hee 3-0 (14-12, 12-10, 11-1), while Wang registered a 3-1 (11-7,
11-4, 5-11, 11-9) victory over Bernadette Szocs of Romania.
The
WTT Champions Macao is the first competition that Sun and Wang are
playing following their women's team victory along with Chen Meng at the
Paris Olympic Games.
Former China national team member Zhu
Yuling, currently representing Macao, had a winning return to the court,
defeating Poland's Natalia Bajor 3-0 in her first international
appearance in four years. Zhu will play Wang in the next round.
On
the men's side, Sweden's Truls Moregard, men's singles runner-up at the
Paris Olympics, came from behind to defeat Japan's Shunsuke Togami 3-1
to advance to the last 16.
China's Liang Jingkun, ranked fourth
in the world, swept past Edward Ly of Canada 3-0, while his
seventh-ranked teammate Lin Gaoyuan also defeated Omar Assar of Egypt in
straight games.