Tokyo Paralympics: table tennis bronze for Wong Ting-ting as Elena Prokofeva proves too much for teen

Name: Tokyo Paralympics kicks off as Hong Kong hopes to ride on Olympics ‘sports fever’
Uploaded: 2021-08-28T02:52:13.000Z
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Description: Tokyo Paralympics kicks off as Hong Kong hopes to ride on Olympics ‘sports fever’

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Hong Kong table tennis athlete Wong Ting-ting celebrates during a match at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Photo: Hong Kong Paralympic Committee

Jonathan White

Published: 10:52am, 28 Aug 2021Updated: 10:47pm, 28 Aug 2021

Hong Kong table tennis player Wong Ting-ting’s Paralympic Games debut ended with a bronze medal and defeat to world No 1 Elena Prokofeva at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.

The 17-year-old had guaranteed herself at least bronze – and Hong Kong’s first medal of the Tokyo Games – with a place in the semi-final, where victory would see her into the gold medal match.

Wong, the world No 3, looked keen as she took the match to the Russian Paralympic Committee representative winning the first game 11-9.

Prokofeva was not only unbeaten in Tokyo going into the semi-final but she had not lost a single game in her three group matches.

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Tokyo Paralympics kicks off as Hong Kong hopes to ride on Olympics ‘sports fever’

If the opening game loss fazed the Russian then she did not show it.