Taipei Times
Date: Nov 04, 2017
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

The Taiwan national soccer squad yesterday arrived in Doha, the capital of Qatar, for a

week-long training camp to prepare for the side’s Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup match against Turkmenistan on Nov. 14, with manager Gary White announcing a 24-man squad which included two English-Taiwanese players, Tim Chow and Will Donkin.

Although Chow, a midfielder with Scottish Premiership side Ross County, did not show up, 17-year-old Donkin took a flight from London to join the squad.

A member of the English Premier League club Crystal Palace’s under-18 squad, Donkin was born in London to an English father and Taiwanese mother.

The players are to train in Qatar until Nov. 12, when they are due to fly to Turkmenistan for the crucial Asian Cup qualifier, which they need to win to advance from the group stage.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/02
By: Tai Ya-chen, Joseph Yeh, Lee Chin-wei and S.C. Chang

Taipei, Nov. 2 (CNA) Tim Chow (周定洋), an English professional soccer player of

Taiwanese descent who earlier pledged to play for Taiwan, will not join the national team of his grandparents’ country for the time being, according to the law firm representing him Thursday.

The STRing Lawfirm in Taipei issued a statement one day after talking with the Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA) regarding Chow’s expected role in the national team, which will face a crucial match in less than two weeks in Turkmenistan.

The 23-year-old Chow obtained a Republic of China (Taiwan) passport on Oct. 30 mainly to join the Taiwanese national team, according to Taiwan’s representative office in the United Kingdom.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwanese tennis star Chan Yung-jen (詹詠然) took to Facebook on Sunday night to express her feeling about her partner Martina Hingis’ retirement, saying it’s hard to say goodbye to this perfect partner

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/10/30
By George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)–Taiwanese tennis star Chan Yung-jen (詹詠然) took to Facebook

on Sunday night to express her feeling about her partner Martina Hingis’ retirement, saying it’s hard to say goodbye to this perfect partner and thanking Hingis for giving her the opportunity to play with her idol.

Chan and Hingis lifted a tour-leading nine trophies in 2017, including their maiden Grand Slam title as a team at the US Open.

Tributes have been pouring in for Hingis from her WTA peers, after the Swiss legend announced her retirement during the WTA Finals in Singapore last week.

Hingis was honored in a retirement ceremony at the end of the WTA Finals on Sunday. Current and former WTA players wished Hingis well on social media. As Hingis’ last partner, Chan also took to Facebook to express her feeling about her partnership with the legend.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/30
By: Lee Chin-wei and Kuan-lin Liu

Taipei, Oct. 30 (CNA) Tennis legend Martina Hingis arrived in Taiwan on Monday with

Chan Yung-jan (詹詠然), the last partner of her illustrious doubles career, to enjoy the first vacation of her retired life.

Having partnered with the Taiwanese native since February, Hingis wanted to take advantage of her free time now that she is retired to visit Chan’s homeland and enjoy some of its best-known attractions.

On the top of her to-do list is to eat Taiwan’s famous “xiao long bao” (steamed soup-filled dumplings) and visit hot springs to take advantage of official Hot Spring Season in Taipei.

According to her agent, Hingis has no public events to attend or appearances scheduled for her time in the country. Her plan as of now is to relax for a few days.
[FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: October 30, 2017
By: Tzeng Yi-shiuan and Y.F. Low

PARIS (CNA) – Taiwan tasted double glory at the Yonex French Open 2017 badminton

tournament in Paris Sunday by winning two of the five titles up for grabs, the country’s best performance in recent years.

The first win was obtained by Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎), who was crowned the women’s singles champion after defeating Akane Yamaguchi of Japan 21-4, 21-16 in just 31 minutes.

This was the first French Open title for the 23-year-old Tai, who currently holds the world’s No. 1 position in women’s singles on the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings.

Meanwhile, Lee Jhe-huei (李哲輝) and Lee Yang (李洋), who entered the BWF Super Series for the first time, seized the men’s doubles champion by beating Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen of Denmark 21-19, 23-21.

Taiwan last won at the French Open in 2014, during which Chou Tien-chen (周天成) claimed the men’s singles title.     [SOURCE]

Martina Hingis announced her retirement from professional tennis on social media on Friday, after reaching the semifinals with Taiwanese partner Chan Yung-Jan at the WTA Finals.

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/10/29
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)–Martina Hingis announced her retirement from

professional tennis on social media on Friday, after reaching the semifinals with Taiwanese partner Chan Yung-Jan (詹詠然) at the WTA Finals.

Hingis and her partner Chan Yung-Jan at the WTA Finals (Photo by CNA).

“Now that the cat is out of the bag, here we are for the third, and final time,” Hingis wrote on Facebook, referring to previous two retirements. “Looking back now, it’s hard to believe that almost exactly 23 years ago I made my professional debut. The years that followed have been some of the most rewarding years of my life, both personally and professionally, but I believe the time has come for me to retire, which I will be doing after my last match here in Singapore.”

This is the third time that Hingis has left the sport. She first quit in 2003, at the age of 22, citing injuries, and her second career came to end in 2007, when she was 27 years old, after she tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine at that year’s Wimbledon.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/29 
By: Joseph Yeh, CNA staff reporter 

The first New Taipei International Migrant Soccer Competition ended Oct. 22 at

the Xinzhuang Sports Complex, with Pojok Joyo FC, a team made up mainly of Indonesian workers, clinching the title over Bac Giang FC, which fielded mainly Vietnamese players.

Holding their trophy, Furqon Ali, captain of Pojok Joyo, told CNA that the team was overjoyed with the hard-earned title.

Ali, like many other migrant workers from Southeast Asian countries where soccer is extremely popular, trains regularly and plays in pick-up games during his days off.

For this rare one-day tournament, the team managed to find like-minded soccer enthusiasts from as far away as Taichung and Changhua, and held two practice sessions as a team.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Oct 30, 2017
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

The hits kept coming yesterday for the Lamigo Monkeys, bolstered by the

boisterous support of a full house in Taoyuan to rout the Brothers 14-5, earning them a one-game lead in the Taiwan Series.

The Brothers looked sharper early on with three runs in the first inning, the key blow coming from the bat of outfielder Chang Chih-hao, who hit a two-run homer.

The Lamigo hitters could only muster one run for their at-bat, allowing the Brothers to steam ahead 3-1 at the end of the first.

The game was marked by a pitching battle between two Americans, with the Brothers starting right-hander Orlando Roman (4-8 record, ERA 4.46) on the mound against lefty Darin Downs of the Monkeys (10-3, ERA 3.49).
[FULL  STORY]