Olympics: S’Pore Women’s Table Tennis Team Wins France 3-0, China Q Final, Sport News & Top Stories

TOKYO-Singapore won the French goals in a 3-0-0 table tennis women’s team competition at the Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo on Monday (August 2), and will face China’s best seeds in the semifinals on Tuesday.

Despite the one-sided scoring, there was occasional drama as Yu Mengyu and Lin Ye swept Stephanie Loeuillette and Yuan Jianan’s opening pair 3-0 (11-6, 11-5, 13-11) and Lin was impressed. his game debuted 10 days after the opening.

World No. 9 Feng Tianwei, however, resisted fierce resistance on Monday in 17-year-old Prithika Pavade’s first singles. The teenager is 381st below Feng, but competed for the 2-0 lead.

The Best of Five format has a lower margin of error, and Feng was on the ropes when he was 6-3 in the fourth game. But he dug deep to win the battle victory in the end, victory 3-2 (8-11, 6-11, 11-3, 11-8, 11-3).

In other singles, World No. 47 and Tokyo 2020 duel finalist Yu ended when he won the 95th yuan 3-1 (11-8, 7-11, 11-5, 11-8).

The Republic won silver at this event at the 2008 Beijing Games and bronze four years later at London. The paddlers did not win a medal in Rio in 2016.