2023-09-07 21:30:00
Lin Yunru/Chen Siyu suffered a reversal yesterday and ended with the bronze medal. (File photo, taken from WTT official website)
[Reporter Xu Mingli/Comprehensive Report]Only two goals away, Lin Yunru/Chen Siyu might become the first Taiwanese pair in history to reach the mixed doubles finals of the Asian Table Tennis Championships. However, despite leading 2:1 in the game, they still lost 2: 3 was reversed by the Chinese combination Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Yidi and ended with a bronze medal.
After 1972, only Lin Weizhong/Zhang Xiuyu in 1988, Ji Jinshui/Chen Qiudan in 1992, and Zhang Yanshu/Cui Xiuli in 2000 have won the mixed doubles bronze medal in the Taiwanese team at the Asian Championships.
World No. 5 Lin Yunru/Chen Siyu, following two five-game battles in the first two rounds, met Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Yidi in the top four yesterday, who have only started teaming up this year. They performed well in the first three games, winning 11:5, 6 : 11, leading 15:13. In the fourth game, they also overcame the 2:6 deficit at the beginning and overtook 9:8. Victory was close at hand. Unexpectedly, they lost 3 points in a row at the critical moment and the game was tied.
In the decisive game, Lin Chenpei showed resilience and chased from 4:9 behind to 9:10. In the end, he still fell short by 2 points and missed the final ticket. He was also the second player following the Ljubljana Star Challenge. Photographed by Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Yidi.
In men’s singles, Zhuang Zhiyuan, Lin Yunru, Gao Chengrui and Huang Yancheng all advanced to the top 32. However, Wang Chuqin, ranked second in the world, was reversed by Japan’s dark horse Yuta Tanaka, ranked 73 in the world, 2:3; Japan’s No. 4 Tomokazu Harimoto, ranked fourth in the world, also suffered an upset defeat to Iran’s Norogi 1:3. It also helped Lin Yunru remove two obstacles on his way to winning the medal.
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