THE Hongkong women's squad powered their way into the Asian Team Cup semi-finals in Shanghai yesterday with an unbeaten record in their preliminary pool matches.
The territory, led by Asian Cup doubles champions Chai Po-wa and Chan Tan-lui, kicked off their campaign with a 3-1 victory over Indonesia and followed up by beating Taiwan 3-2 and Japan 3-1.
Chai, ranked seventh in the world, won all her matches in straight games but Chan failed to keep a clean slate, losing to Taiwan's Chen Chiu-tan in a close three-set clash.
Chan Suk-yuen was the third singles player against Indonesia and Japan while Wong Wing-san played in the Taiwan tie. They lost all their matches.
Hongkong have again drawn Taiwan for the semi-finals and coach Cheung Sau-ying was confident they could go on to reach the final against either China or South Korea.
Cheung said: ''The luck of the draw was certainly with us. I'm hopeful we will beat Taiwan again and it should be by a 3-1 margin.
