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Taipei Times
Date: Oct 05, 2017
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter, with AFP, BEIJING

Chan Yung-jan yesterday knocked out fellow Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei in the second

round of the doubles at the China Open, while younger sister Chan Hao-ching was also ousted in Beijing.

Top seeds Chan Yung-jan and Martina Hingis, bidding to claim their ninth title of the season, had to rally from a set down before defeating Hsieh and Monica Niculescu of Romania 3-6, 6-4, 12-10 in 1 hour, 25 minutes on Moon Court at the National Tennis Center in the Chinese capital.

The Taiwanese-Swiss duo, ranked the No. 2 and No. 1 doubles players in the world by the WTA, saved two of six break points and converted all three they created to advance to a quarter-final against Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada and Xu Yifan of China, who defeated Lyudmyla Kichenok of Ukraine and Raluca Olaru of Romania 7-5, 7-5.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/30
By: Lee Chin-wei and Christie Chen

Taipei, Sept. 30 (CNA) Taiwanese badminton duo Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎) and Wang

Tzu-wei (王子維) advanced to the mixed doubles final in the first Jeunesse Cup International All-Star Tournament on Saturday.

Tai, who ranks as world No. 1 in women’s badminton, and Wang, who ranks world No. 10 in men’s badminton, defeated their Chinese rivals Wang Lin (王琳) and Chen Hong (陳宏) 21-9, 21-14 in the match, which was held in the gymnasium of the Univeristy of Taipei’s Tianmu Campus.

The Taiwanese duo will face Denmark’s Mads Conrad-Petersen and Line Kjærsfeldt in the gold medal match on Sunday.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/30
By: Lee Chin-wei and Kuan-lin Li

Taipei, Sept. 30 (CNA) Taiwanese tennis player Chan Yung-jan (詹詠然) and her

Swiss partner Martina Hingis claimed the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open title Saturday, defeating Shuko Aoyama of Japan and Yang Zhaoxuan (楊釗煊) of China in the women’s doubles final.

The two did not drop a single set en route to the Saturday’s final, in which their opponents put up a very good fight.

Chan and Hingis won two of the three sets with scores of 7-6 (5), 3-6, 10-4, to win the match 2-1.

The duo have been on a roll, claiming their third consecutive title following their wins at the 2017 Western and Southern Open and the U.S. Open. They have won so far this year 8 tournaments.    [FULL STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 30, 2017
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter

Taiwan’s Chan Yung-jan yesterday advanced to the doubles final at the Wuhan Open,

while unseeded Ashleigh Barty upset eighth seed Jelena Ostapenko to reach the singles final.

Top seeds Chan and Martina Hingis won a hard-fought semi-final against third seeds Sania Mirza of India and Peng Shuai of China 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 in 1 hour, 48 minutes on Center Court at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China.

The Taiwanese-Swiss duo saved seven of 12 break points and converted six of 13, winning 73 of the 138 points contested to advance to today’s final against Shuko Aoyama of Japan and Yang Zhaoxuan of China after they were handed a walkover when Australian fourth seeds Barty and Casey Dellacqua pulled out of the second semi-final, with Barty citing fatigue.

Aoyama and Yang progressed through the quarter-finals on Thursday when Russian second seeds Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova retired in the first set.
[FULL  STORY]

Taiwan flag shown instead of expected Chinese Taipei emblem

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/09/27
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Breaking a Chinese taboo, a Taiwanese flag appeared on a

board at the Chengdu Open to denote tennis star Lu Yen-hsun’s (盧彥勳) citizenship, reports said Wednesday.

China does not recognize Taiwan as a country but only as a breakaway province, and has forced international sports organizations to use the name “Chinese Taipei” when denoting the island.

A board presenting Lu’s picture and basic tennis stats still listed his country as “Chinese Taipei” in English and Chinese, but instead of showing the specially designed flag used for that name in sporting competitions, it showed the real Taiwanese flag.

Lu’s brother, Thomas Lu (盧威儒), told the Chinese-language Apple Daily that in the past he had never really noticed which flag they used for Taiwanese participants in Chinese tennis events. He assumed it must have been a “mistake,” which he said was funny, so he had taken a picture of the big screen.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 27, 2017
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter

Taiwan’s Chan Yung-jan and Martina Hingis of Switzerland cruised into the quarter-

finals of the doubles at the Wuhan Open yesterday, while Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei gave top seed Kristyna Pliskova a fright in the first round of the singles at the Tashkent Open.

Chan and Hingis took just 57 minutes to complete a 6-1, 6-2 second-round victory over Raquel Atawo of the US and Darija Jurak of Croatia.

The top seeds saved two of three break points and converted five of seven, winning 53 of the 86 points contested to advance to the quarter-finals

It was not such a good day for Chan Yung-jan’s younger sister, Chan Hao-ching, after she and Zhang Shuai of China fell to a 6-4, 6-4 defeat to Makoto Ninomiya of Japan and Renata Voracova of the Czech Republic in the first round.

Ninomiya and Voracova saved one of the two break points they faced and converted three of 11 to advance to a second-round clash with sixth seeds Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and Kveta Peschke of the Czech Republic, with the winners due to face Chan Yung-jan and Hingis in the quarter-finals.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/25
By: Tang Pei-chun and Evelyn Kao 

Brussels, Sept. 24 (CNA) Taiwanese badminton player Chen Shiau-cheng (陳孝承) won the men’s singles title Sunday at the Yonex Belgian Junior 2017 in Herstal, Belgium, beating his British rival Harry Huang.

Top seeded Chen, 17, a student at Kaohsiung Municipal High School who was placed 14th in the world junior badminton rankings, failed to gain ground in the first game after his opponent unleashed blistering attacks, which ultimately resulted in the game going to Huang 8-21.

However, Chen then adjusted his tactics and staged a comeback, winning the second and third games 21-16, 21-13.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Timeas
Date: Sep 26, 2017
By: Duane Christie and Grant Dexter  /  Contributing reporters

Taipei Cricket Association (TCA) on Sunday defeated Formosa Cricket Club at the

Sanmin grounds in Chiayi City, claiming the President’s Cup on a tough batting wicket.

After slow over rates in an earlier game saw the final reduced to 15 overs per side, Formosa won the toss and chose to bat, but tight bowling from the TCA openers saw them lose two early wickets to man-of-the-match Murugan Subramani.

The rest of the batting order were never able to get on top of the bowlers, apart from the tournament’s top player and batsman, Jeff Black, who added respectability to the score with some lusty blows toward the end of the innings on his way to 68 not out in a modest total of 104.

In reply, TCA were made to work hard and the relentless Formosa bowling attack did not allow the batsmen to dominate.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 25, 2017
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

North Korea were undefeated in the U-16 soccer Group F qualifier, with a 2-0 shutout

over Hong Kong, while Taiwan triumphed 3-0 over Macau yesterday.

North Korea claimed all 12 points with four wins in four matches — all played at the Fu Jen Catholic University Stadium in New Taipei City — to top the Group F ahead of next year’s Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-16 Championship.

Taiwan, Brunei and Hong Kong are level with six points each, but Brunei has been awarded second place on higher points.

North Korea scored in both halves of their game against Hong Kong, but were repeatedly denied by a resolute defense and good goalkeeping.

North Korea dominated in possession and attack, but missed numerous chances in front of the goal.    [FULL  STORY]