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      <description>China’s youngest Olympic champion at the Toyko 2020 Games, Quan Hongchan, has earned herself another plaudit as she was named to the Forbes China 30 Under 30 list for 2021, which was published on Thursday.
The 14-year-old is the youngest person on the overall list of 300, which includes 30 names for 10 separate industries, with Quan and her fellow Chinese Olympic gold medal winners named to the sport list.
Teammate Chen Yuxi, 16, is the next youngest athlete with 17-year-old Zhang Jiaqi also on...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Hong Kong table tennis star Doo Hoi-kem has enjoyed a surge in popularity in the mainland since winning a bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The paddler found herself trending on Weibo after an interview with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, which has been widely reported on domestic news sites.
“I want to visit Tiananmen after the Tokyo Olympics”, she told them of her plans to take her medal to Beijing to watch the flag-raising ceremony, with that topic trending on China’s...</description>
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      <description>China table tennis star Sun Yingsha was not told of her grandmother’s April death until after the Tokyo Olympic Games finished, her father told Chinese media.
According to reports, Sun’s family took the decision to keep the death of her grandmother from the 20-year-old so that she could focus on competing in the Tokyo Games, with the paddler already away at training camp.
Sun won gold in the women’s team event and silver in the women’s singles, beating Japanese table tennis rising star Mima Ito...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 06:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: China’s Sun Yingsha not told of dead grandmother till Games return</title>
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      <description>China’s Ma Long added to his legendary status by becoming the most successful Olympic table tennis player in history, with his two golds in Tokyo being hailed as “perfection”.
“There are no words to describe Ma Long,” Chinese Table Tennis Association president Liu Guoliang, a two-time Olympic champion himself, said after the 32-year-old’s feats in the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium took him to five Games golds.
“If people chase perfection, this is it. His spirit is different. He doesn’t just...</description>
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      <title>Tokyo Olympics: Ma Long’s golds hailed as he hints at Paris 2024</title>
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      <description>China’s men’s table tennis team ensured that the nation’s mixed doubles silver was the only upset in an otherwise characteristically dominant display with the paddle.
The top seeds dismissed the challenge of second seeds Germany in a replay of the Beijing 2008 final, the first year the men’s team event was introduced.


Victory at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium ensured China’s vice-like grip on gold extends to all four tournaments.
It ended, like China’s other games in their title defence,...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: China beat Germany to keep grip on men’s table tennis gold</title>
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      <description>Hong Kong basked in the glow of more medals at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, cementing these Games as the city’s greatest ever. And a new heroine emerged in table tennis player Minnie Soo Wai-yam, who said “miracles do happen”.
Two bronze medals were won in table tennis and the debut sport of karate to move Hong Kong on to an unprecedented five, following Edgar Cheung Ka-long’s fencing gold and swimmer Siobhan Haughey’s two silvers in the pool.
There were high hopes for cyclist Sarah Lee...</description>
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      <description>China beat Japan for the table tennis women’s team gold preventing Mima Ito from taking another medal from them and keeping up their remarkable record.
It ended 3-0 between the top two seeds at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, with the showpiece over in one hour and 50 minutes.
Japan got off to the ideal start in the opening doubles rubber with Kasumi Ishikawa and Miu Hirano taking the first game off Chen Meng and Wang Manyu with an 11-9 win.
That was as good it got for the hosts as Chen and...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 13:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Minnie Soo Wai-yam played the match of her life as Hong Kong won a history-making bronze medal by beating Germany 3-1 in the women’s team table tennis at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Thursday morning, further solidifying these Games as the city’s greatest yet.
It was a first Olympic medal for a women’s table tennis team and a second for Hong Kong table tennis after a silver in the men’s doubles at the 2004 Athens Olympics.


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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 04:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: Hong Kong heroine Minnie Soo ‘never thought I could win’ as she steps up to claim bronze for women in team table tennis</title>
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      <description>China’s men followed the women into the team’s table tennis gold-medal match with a relatively trouble-free victory over South Korea.
It ended 3-0 after one doubles and two singles contests but the Koreans offered some resistance to the sport’s titans, who are gunning for a fourth gold in a row since the team event was introduced in 2008.
The odds suggest they will face Japan, which is how it has unfolded in both the women’s team final as well as the mixed doubles.
Japan takes on Germany in the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 10:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Hong Kong’s coach and players were right – the women’s team table tennis bronze medal match will be against Germany after they were beaten 3-0 by top seeds China.
It was a repeat of the Rio 2016 gold medal match-up, which China also walked away from as winners.
Germany’s team – Han Ying, Shan Xiaona and Petrissa Solja – was unchanged from five years ago and again could not cope with the challenge of world No 1 Chen Meng, No 2 Sun Yingsha and No 4 Wang Manyu.
World No 5 doubles pair Wang and Chen...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 06:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>A 58-year-old table tennis player representing Luxembourg at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been dubbed the “Shanghai auntie” by the Chinese internet.
Ni Xialian was born and raised in Shanghai and is the oldest athlete to compete in table tennis in Olympic history. She has competed at five Games.
When Ni played Shin Yu-bin, a 17-year-old South Korean athlete, on July 25, people described the match as a “fight between a grandma and a grandchild”. Ni lost the match 3-4.

As Ni’s profile grew,...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 01:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Twelve-year-old Hend Zaza, Syrian table tennis prodigy and youngest athlete at the Tokyo Olympics, has been invited to train in China and is expected to arrive as early as September, state media said.
Zaza, also the youngest Olympian since the 1992 Barcelona Games, lost to Austria’s Liu Jia in straight sets in the opening round of the women’s singles – her Games debut over in 24 minutes.
Despite being knocked out, ﻿Zaza was a “great talent” with good rhythm and instincts, Liu, 39, told Xinhua....</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2021 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: Syrian table tennis prodigy Hend Zaza, 12, heads to China for training</title>
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      <description>China’s women’s table tennis team swatted aside Singapore in their quarter-final meeting to set-up a rematch of the Rio 2016 gold-medal match with Germany.
It ended 3-0, with China only dropping one game on the way to victory, cruising into the last four inside 90 minutes.
That dropped game came in the final match between Singapore’s Lin Ye and China’s Wang Manyu, though Wang subsequently won the next three.
Before that, China’s Chen Meng and Wang beat Yu Mengyu and Lin 3-0 in the doubles opener...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2021 07:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: China swats Singapore aside for spot in women’s team table tennis semi-final</title>
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      <description>Hong Kong’s athletes have already made history at the Tokyo Olympics and on Monday it was the turn of the women’s table tennis team to write their chapter.
A 3-1 victory over Romania in the quarter-finals means that on Tuesday Hong Kong will be represented in the last four for the first time and a medal of any colour is within the team’s grasp.
It was another golden day for China too, with more Olympic success in weightlifting (two), shooting, gymnastics and women’s cycling, with the track...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: Hong Kong on brink of another medal as women carve own slice of history in team table tennis</title>
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      <description>Follow our live coverage of day 10 of the Tokyo Olympics here
Hong Kong were forced to come from behind against a spirited Romania in the women’s team table tennis, but their reward is a place in the Tokyo 2020 semi-finals.
Japan await fourth seeds Hong Kong, who lost their opening match at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium before storming back to reach the last four, earning the chance of another medal at these unprecedented Games.


The second-seeded hosts strolled past Taiwan 3-0 in their...</description>
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      <title>Tokyo Olympics: Hong Kong fight back against Romania for women’s team table tennis semi-final against Japan</title>
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      <description>Follow our live coverage of day 10 of the Tokyo Olympics here
Singapore boosted its chances of landing a first medal at the Tokyo 2020 Games on Monday when its women’s table tennis team overcame France to book a place in the last eight of the competition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.
Boosted, but only slightly; the victory catapulted them straight into a clash with top-ranked China in the next round.


The city state is looking for someone to step in where its top medal prospect, Joseph...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 03:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: Singapore, seeking new medal hope, to face China in table tennis quarter-finals after emphatic France win</title>
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      <description>Follow our live coverage of day nine of the Tokyo Olympics here
Hong Kong’s women’s table tennis team have moved through to the last eight at the Tokyo Olympic Games, but they were forced to work hard by Brazil and are not getting carried away.
The team of Doo Hoi-kem, Lee Ho-ching and Minnie Soo Wai-yam won 3-1 against Brazil’s Bruna Takahashi, Jessica Yamada and Caroline Kumahara, but top paddler Doo had to play twice.
Lee and Soo got Hong Kong off to a 3-0 doubles win against Yamada and...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 06:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: Hong Kong into women’s team table tennis quarters, but admit ‘our performance was not very good’</title>
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      <description>It will be two all-China affairs in the finals of the Olympics table tennis singles events after Ma Long dug deep to dispatch the final non-Chinese player left at Tokyo 2020.
World No 2 Ma – considered the greatest player of all time – defeated Germany’s Dimitrij Ovtcharov 4-3 in a barnburner of a semi-final on Thursday afternoon, winning the last game 11-9, having twice thrown away leads of 2-0 and 3-2.


Three-time Olympic gold medallist and reigning champion Ma, 32, had cruised through the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2021 09:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: Ma Long makes it two all-China finals in men’s and women’s table tennis</title>
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      <description>Follow our live coverage of day six of the Tokyo Olympics here
It was set to be the clash of the titans in Tokyo 2020’s table tennis programme.
The world No 1 Chen Meng of China, irresistible in the early rounds here, held up her end of the bargain booking a final spot with a crushing 4-0 win against Singapore’s Yu Mengyu. But her expected opponent in the final, Japanese sensation Mima Ito, limped out on the wrong end of her own whitewash.


Ito, the world No 2, was dumped out in just 34 minutes...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2021 04:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: China’s Chen Meng blasts her way into table tennis final, Japan’s Mima Ito suffers huge loss</title>
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      <description>Hong Kong’s Doo Hoi-kem was eliminated at the quarter-final stage of the singles table tennis at Tokyo 2020 on Wednesday, but the 24-year-old gave world’s best Chen Meng an almighty scare on her way out of the competition.
It was a battling performance from Doo, who went two games in front off the bat, but Chen showed why she has ruled women’s table tennis in recent years as she dug into her reliable reserves and dumped Doo out of the singles event 4-2.


But it was an uncharacteristically slow...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2021 04:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: brave Doo Hoi-kem goes down swinging against superb Chen Meng in table tennis quarter-finals</title>
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      <description>Hong Kong’s Doo Hoi-kem booked her place in the quarter-finals of the table tennis singles at the 2020 Olympics with a convincing 4-1 victory against Netherlands’ Britt Eerland inside the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Tuesday night.
After a slow start, 24-year-old Doo settled into the match and in the end was too strong for the battling Dutchwoman, bamboozling the 27-year-old with an array of angled attacks and her aggressive style.
Doo’s reward for her dominant display is a quarter-final date...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympic: Doo Hoi-kem dominates Britt Eerland to set up table tennis quarter-final with top seed Chen</title>
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      <description>Follow our live coverage of day four of the Tokyo Olympics here
China’s mixed doubles table tennis silver medallists vowed not to let the shock defeat to Japan in the gold medal match affect the rest of their Olympics, unless it is to spur them on.
“This won‘t affect us in the other events,” Liu Shiwen said after the 4-3 defeat on Monday night in the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.
The defeat marked the first time since the 2004 Athens Olympics where China will not sweep the table tennis gold...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 10:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: Chinese table tennis team still aiming for gold after shock defeat to Japan</title>
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      <description>Follow our live coverage of day four of the Tokyo Olympics here
Hong Kong’s Doo Hoi-kem is into the fourth round of the women’s singles table tennis in Tokyo after beating Shin Yu-bin 4-2.
The world No 14 and Olympic eighth seed held off the challenge of the South Korean teenager at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Tuesday.
Despite being world No 94, Shin has long been tipped to go to the very top, having become the youngest winner of an International Table Tennis Federation mixed doubles...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 04:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: Doo Hoi-kem beats Shin Yu-bin to progress to the table tennis last 16, Britt Eerland next</title>
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      <description>Follow our live coverage of day three of the Tokyo Olympics here
Hong Kong’s men’s singles Olympic table tennis tournament has run its course after third round defeats for Wong Chun-ting and Lam Siu-hang.
Wong, the No 1 paddler in Hong Kong and world No 19, was up against the experience of Taiwanese veteran Chuang Chih-Yuan at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.


He got off to the ideal start against the 40-year-old, winning the opening game 11-9 but that proved to be a false dawn as world No 26...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2021 10:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: Tomokazu Harimoto beats Lam Siu-hang, Wong Chun-ting loses to Chuang Chih-Yuan</title>
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      <description>Defeat for Hong Kong No 2 Minnie Soo Wai-yam capped an ultimately disappointing day for the city’s paddlers at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Sunday, with an unlikely victory for Lam Siu-hang the only bright spot.
Soo had a good chance to make round three of the singles against Maria Xiao, of Spain, who she had prevailed against on every previous meeting. But it had been 10 years since their last meeting and the 27-year-old Xiao left it for the biggest stage of all to record the best result...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 11:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Follow our live coverage of day two of the Tokyo Olympics here.
Sunday started as badly as Saturday did for Hong Kong at these Olympic Games when the well-fancied mixed doubles pairing of Wong Chun-ting and Doo Hoi-kem suffered a controversial quarter-final loss.
The Hong Kong pair was ultimately undone by an umpire’s call that came down on the side of the French victors after a pulsating seven-game match that went right to the wire.
The thrilling match was eventually won under a cloud with the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 03:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Wong Chun-ting and Doo Hoi-kem easily progressed to the quarter-finals of the table tennis mixed doubles at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gym on Saturday, and can lay claim to a genuine medal chance when the event concludes on Monday
Wong and Doo made light work of the Hungarian pairing of Adam Szudi and Szandra Pergel in their opener, needing just 28 minutes to register a convincing 4-0 win.
In the men’s singles, Hong Kong’s Lam Siu-hang, the 2018 Asian Games quarter-finalist, eased past Puerto Rico’s...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2021 10:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tokyo Olympics: Wong and Doo progress to quarter-finals in table tennis mixed doubles, Lam into round two</title>
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      <description>Germany has reportedly joined China in a complaint about the size of table tennis playing areas at the Tokyo Olympics.
Liu Guoliang, the Chinese coach of the national team and the president of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, told Chinese state news agency Xinhua on Thursday that the German team had raised “the same concerns as we did: the playing area is too small”.
Liu measured the area with his feet, initially at least, according to China’s state broadcaster CCTV on Monday, when the...</description>
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      <description>When it comes to table tennis, there is no name more synonymous with the sport right now than Ma Long. The three-time Olympics gold medallist and the reigning singles Olympic champion is set for Tokyo 2020 and a stab at table tennis immortality.
The Chinese player, who is known for having the sport’s most aggressive forehand, will look to add to his trove of titles this summer. But who is the man so synonymous with table tennis?
Biography
The 32-year-old was born on October 20, 1988 and hails...</description>
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      <description>Australian table tennis veteran Jian Fang Lay was on Monday selected for a sixth Olympics, second only to Nigerian Olufunke Oshonaike, who will be making her seventh appearance at the Tokyo Games.
Born in China, Jian moved to Australia in 1994 to become one of the country’s all-time greats, winning 24 Oceania titles and 30 national crowns.
Now 48, she will join equestrian Mary Hanna, who will also be in Tokyo, as the only Australian women to compete at six Games and join a select band of global...</description>
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