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Updates from Budapest: Final Day
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Sunday, 28 April 2019 04:30
Women’s Doubles final reaction Wang Manyu reacts to her and Sun Yingsha’s title winning performance: “This is our second big international tournament and when we were down, we just tried our best because our opponents are very strong and competitive. We just told ourselves not to give but stick with the match.” Wang Manyu SUN YINGSHA AND WANG MANYU ARE…
Ma Long for third time, joins legendary names
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Sunday, 28 April 2019 05:30
Thus for the sixth consecutive occasion Ma Long stood on the men’s singles podium when the World Championships curtain closed, more significantly for the third time in a row on the top step. Most certainly he was tested, after losing the opening two games, Mattias Falck dominated the third before establishing an 8-6 lead in the fourth, at 9-8 in…
Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu clinch gold; full house for China
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Sunday, 28 April 2019 06:47
by Ian Marshall, Editor Success and they very much maintained the ethos of the tournament; they commenced play as the second seeds as opposed to their opponents who headed the order. Thus, somewhat different to previous years, of the five events on offer, not one was won by the top seeds. Undoubtedly the crucial stage of the contest arose in…
Liu Shiwen wins in Budapest, third time of asking
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Saturday, 27 April 2019 06:31
Eventually, as against Ding Ning the previous day in the semi-final, it was the sheer speed of Liu Shiwen that won the day, a tournament where not only did she create history by adding her name to the role of honour, she completed a unique double which will take some equaling. In the fifth game against Chen Meng she did…
Ma Long guides Wang Chuqin to gold
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Saturday, 27 April 2019 05:23
Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen had gradually asserted their authority on proceedings to emerge successful in five games (11-5, 11-8, 9-11, 11-9, 11-4); very much Ma Long and Wang Chuqin did the same, they prevailed by a similar margin against Romania’s Ovidiu Ionescu and Spain’s Alvaro Robles in five games (11-3, 8-11, 11-7, 11-3, 11-4). The newcomer to the big…
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