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Saturday, Jul 24, 2004

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No stopping Chinese brigade

By Rakesh Rao

NEW DELHI, JULY 23. The unranked trio of Liu Shiwen, Ding Ning and Feng Yalan made a mockery of the seeding list, and gate-crashed into the girls' singles semifinals of the Asian junior table tennis championship here.

On a day when all Indians except Mousami Paul fell in the first round, the NDMC Indoor Stadium witnessed a spate of upsets in the girls' pre-quarterfinals with the top four seeds joining the casualty list. Notably, all five Chinese in the fray made it to the quarterfinals. In fact, China's only seeded player Cai Sai failed to get past compatriot Ding Ning in spite of winning three of the first four games in their quarterfinal clash.

Liu Shiwen knocked out top-seeded Korean Jee Min Hyung and eighth-seeded Japanese Moemi Terui.

The results (prefix denotes seeding): Boys: Quarterfinals: 1-Zhang Jike (Chn) bt 8-Jun Mizutni (Jpn) 0-11, 13-11, 11-8, 11-2, 11-5; 4-Cho Eon Rae (Kor) bt 5-Chou Tang Yu (Tpe) 11-9, 11-7, 5-11, 7-11, 11-9, 11-5; 6-Ma Long (Chn) bt 3-Wu Chih Chi (Tpe) 13-11, 11-6, 11-1, 8-11, 11-8; 2-Seiya Kishikawa (Jpn) bt Tang Yushi (Chn) 11-6, 5-11, 11-4, 10-12, 11-7, 11-8.

Pre-quarterfinals: Zhang Jike bt Yeo In Ho (Kor) 11-7, 11-7, 11-7, 11-5; Jun Mizutni bt Sun Wen Wei (Tpe) 12-10, 11-7, 11-8, 11-7; Chou Tang Yu bt Tatsuya Ono (Jpn) 8-11, 5-11, 11-8, 15-13, 11-7, 11-7; Cho Eon Rae bt Lin Chen (Chn) 8-11, 11-4, 11-9, 11-3, 7-11, 15-17, 11-9; Wu Chih Chi bt Jiang Tianyi (Chn) 11-8, 12-10, 8-11, 13-15, 11-8, 11-7; Ma Long bt Kazumasa Ikeda (Jpn) 11-8, 9-11, 11-0, 11-6, 11-9; Tang Yushi bt 7-Kang Dang Hoon (Kor) 2-11, 11-13, 11-9, 11-6, 6-11, 11-7, 11-9; Seiya Kishikawa bt Li Kwun Ngai (Hkg) 9-11, 11-9, 13-15, 11-6, 11-4, 12-10.

Girls: Quarterfinals: Liu Shiwen (Chn) bt 8-Meomi Terui (Jpn) 14-12, 11-7, 11-5, 11-4; Ding Ning (Chn) bt 5-Cai Sai (Chn) 11-7, 10-12, 7-11, 8-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-8; 6-Choi Moon Young (Kor) bt Hou Xiaoxu (Chn) 4-11, 11-3, 16-14, 10-12, 11-13, 11-8, 11-3; Feng Yalan (Chn) bt 7-Seo Myeong Eun (Kor) 11-9, 3-11, 11-8, 10-12, 11-7, 11-7.

Pre-quarterfinals: Liu Shiwen bt 1-Lee Min Hyung (Kor) 5-11, 3-11, 11-7, 11-4, 11-3, 11-9; 8-Moemi Tarui bt Mousami Paul (Ind) 5-11, 6-11, 11-3, 11-8, 12-10, 11-1; 5-Cai Sai bt Shu Hui Tsun (Tpe) 11-2, 11-4, 11-5, 11-4; Ding Ning bt 4-Yuka Ishigaki (Jpn) 13-11, 11-1, 11-8, 12-10; Hou Xiaoxu bt 3-Nozomi Hasama 13-11, 11-5, 8-11, 11-7, 6-11, 7-11, 11-4; 6-Choi Moon Young bt Kou Su Hua (Tpe) 11-9, 11-5, 11-5, 11-3; 7-Seo Myeong bt Eun Shisho Sugimoto (Jpn) 11-7, 9-11, 12-14, 11-3, 11-5, 12-10; Feng Yalan bt 2-Lee I-Chen (Tpe) 11-5, 11-5, 13-11, 11-0.

Boys doubles (quarterfinals): Ma Long/Lin Chen (Chn) bt Seiya Kishikawa/Jun Mizutni 11-9, 4-11, 11-6, 9-11, 11-8; Chou Tang-Yu/Chaung Che-Wei (Tpe) bt Arunava Ganguly/Sameer Prabhu (Ind) 11-8, 11-5, 14-12; Wu Chih-Chi/Sun Wen-Wei (Tpe) bt Soumyajit Sarkar/Dinesh Karia (Ind) 11-6, 11-8, 11-9; Zhang Jike/Jiang Tianyi (Chn) bt Kang Dang Hoon/Cho Eon Rae (Kor) 11-8, 8-11, 11-3, 9-11, 11-5.

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