huaiwei Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Go Wu Xue go!!! 8-4 over the world's second seed?? You are another amazing player I see today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huaiwei Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Tie suddenly wakes up from her slumber to snatch a 13-11 victory over Wang, while Wu is tied 11-11 with Guo. Who says the Chinese can't be beaten? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huaiwei Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Guo eventually prevailed 13-11, but it is certainly a solid play from Wu. Meanwhile, Wang shoots ahead to a 10-1 lead over Tie. Revenge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huaiwei Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 And the fairy tale comes to an end for Wu Xue. Seems that she has lost steam in her final match which went 11-5 against her favour, but do remember that she has on the way beaten two players ranked above her, and jumped from 33 position in the last Olympics to the current top 8 finish. A marvellous run indeed! Meanwhile, Wang runs all over Tie with another convincing 11-4 win. And so we have the following four in the semi finals: China Zhang Yining Wang Nan Guo Yue Singapore Li Jiawei Yawn? Yeah, for those who are looking to see a more interesting line-up of finalists. I suppose we have to wait more years for this to happen! Cheers to all eight players, and congratulations to the last four! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCD 2012 Posted August 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Oh my word .. there goes Singapore's chances of another medal... looks like Li Jia Wei will add another 4th place in the singles to the one she did in Athens . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huaiwei Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Oh my word .. there goes Singapore's chances of another medal... looks like Li Jia Wei will add another 4th place in the singles to the one she did in Athens . Haha....perhaps if Feng was the 4th seed and changed place with Li, a medal hope might be a little higher? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huaiwei Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Anyway, the Fourth Round in the Men's singles event has just been completed. These men must have a problem with the seeding system, for more than half of them aren't giving it much attention! Ok....the obvious first. All three top seeded Chinese players proceeded smoothly to the last eight without much problems. Then the surprises. Of the last eight, there are only four seeded players left, with the last seeded player being 12th-seed Oh Sang Eun of South Korea, himself beating 5th-seed Timo Boll of Germany with a very convincing margin of 4-1. We have unseeded Ko Lai Chak of Hong Kong who earlier trashed South Korea's 6th seed Ryu Seung Min, and now defeated 11th-seed Dimitrij Ovtcharov of Germany. Unseeded Jörgen Persson of Sweden sent off Hong Kong's 9th-seed Cheung Yuk, then shocked Belarus' 4th-seed Vladimir Samsonov. And then there is unseeded Tan Ruiwu of Croatia, who swept aside Singapore's 10th-seed Gao Ning, and then disposed off Hong Kong's 8th-seed Li Ching. So what do we have left? Announcing the last eight... China Wang Hao Wang Liqin Ma Lin Croatia Zoran Primorac Tan Ruiwu Hong Kong, China Ko Lai Chak South Korea Oh Sang Eun Sweden Jörgen Persson Is Croatia the new Table Tennis powerhouse of Europe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCD 2012 Posted August 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Haha....perhaps if Feng was the 4th seed and changed place with Li, a medal hope might be a little higher? That would be nice ! I am still hoping for a chinese choke tomorrow's match . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huaiwei Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 That would be nice ! I am still hoping for a chinese choke tomorrow's match . Just found out Zhang was not at her best today coz she wasent using her competition bat, but a backup one. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/spo.../370433/1/.html That isnt going to be comforting news to Jiawei. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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