Table Tennis
Tomokazu Harimoto and Chen Xingtong win in Bulgaria
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Sunday, 18 August 2019 10:00
A difference but both had factors in common, most notably the speed of their play and being able to answer the speed of their opponents. Men’s Singles …………Tomokazu Harimoto, after holding two match points in the fifth game, beat China’s Zhao Zihao in six games (11-6, 12-14, 11-5, 13-11, 13-15, 11-4) to secure the title. …………At the semi-final stage Tomokazu…
Day Three: 2019 ITTF World Tour Asarel Bulgaria Open
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Saturday, 17 August 2019 00:00
Second consecutive title Korea Republic’s Jeoung Youngsik and Lee Sangsu, the no.2 seeds, overcame Japanese qualifiers, Yukiya Uda and Kazuhiro Yoshimura (4-11, 11-4, 11-9, 11-8) to secure men’s doubles gold; thus repeated they repeated the success of one month earlier when they had won in Australia. A second consecutive title, overall it was their sixth as a partnership on the…
Seeds stumble but principal names progress
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Saturday, 17 August 2019 06:46
However, lower down the order there were surprises, pride of place going to Peru’s Juan Luna Nuñez; notably he beat Aziz Zarehbin of the United States, the no.7 seed (11-8, 10-12, 11-9, 6-11, 11-9) to secure first place and direct progress to the main draw. Similarly, Sweden’s Jens Holmqvist excelled; he accounted for Ecuador’s Mathias Lecaro, the no.12 seed (9-11,…
Quadri Aruna topples Jun Mizutani to reach semi-finals
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Saturday, 17 August 2019 11:12
Starting his men’s singles campaign with a fine 4-3 victory over China’s Ma Te (11-8, 8-11, 11-7, 7-11, 11-7, 7-11, 11-7); in round two Quadri Aruna went on to claim a major scalp, by the same score-line eliminating seventh seed Wong Chun Ting (11-9, 11-9, 4-11, 3-11, 11-9, 5-11, 11-5). Aruna’s reward was a quarter-final meeting with no.4 seed Jun…
Mixed fortunes, dramatic defeat for Jun Mizutani
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Saturday, 17 August 2019 12:25
Likewise for colleagues Yukiya Uda and Kazuhiro Yoshimura there was disappointment in the men’s doubles event, as there was in the women’s doubles for Miu Hirano and Saki Shibata; both had to settle for runners up spots. Men’s Singles: Quarter-Finals …………Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna, the no.10 seed, brought the quarter-final round to a nail-biting conclusion; he beat Jun Mizutani, the no.4…
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