Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/16
By: Lee Chin-wei and Kuan-lin Liu

Taipei, Sept. 16 (CNA) Taiwanese tennis player Lu Yen-hsun (盧彥勳) has advanced

to Sunday’s final of the US$75,000 ATP Shanghai Challenger after cruising past China’s Zhang Ze (張擇) in the semifinals on Saturday.

The 34-year-old Lu, who has won 29 Challenger events during his long pro career and is currently ranked 62nd in the world, topped Zhang 6-1, 6-2 to advance to the title match against Wu Yibing (吳易昺) of China.

Neither Lu nor Wu has dropped a set in the tournament so far. Wu, ranked 496th in the world, reached the final by beating Germany’s Matthias Bachinger 7-5, 7-5 on Saturday.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 17, 2017
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AFP, PARIS

Chen Ti and Jason Jung yesterday kept alive Taiwan’s bid to stave off relegation from

Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group I with a straight-sets victory in the doubles rubber at the Yang Gu Tennis Park in South Korea.

Chen and Jung defeated the hosts’ Lee Jea-moon and Lim Yong-kyu 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 in a minute over two hours to grab a point for the visitors, who will need to win both singles rubbers today to survive the drop.

The Taiwanese duo saved nine of 11 break points and converted five of nine, firing down five aces and winning 100 of the 186 points contested to keep their team’s hopes alive.

With South Korea holding a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five contest, Jung will need to upset world No. 44 Chung Hye-on in the first reverse singles rubber today, before Wu Tung-lin is due to take on Kwon Soon-woo.

Pakistan remain favorites to replace the losers in Asia/Oceania Group I, despite losing the doubles rubber to Thailand in the Group II promotion playoff yesterday.
[FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/14
By: Li Chin-wei and Ko Lin

Taipei, Sept. 14 (CNA) Taiwanese Chen Ying-chu (陳映竹) broke the world record in

the women’s 500-meter speed skating event in the semifinals at the Roller Games World Championships in Nanjing last week, although she did not go on to win a medal in the finals.

Chen clocked 43.122 seconds in the semifinal race, beating the time of 43.247 set by Colombian Hellen Montoya in 2015 in Kaohsiung, the Chinese Taipei Roller Sports Federation said Thursday.

The new record, however, has not yet been made official by the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS), the world governing body for roller sports, which is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, chairman of the local sports federation Chiang Ping-cheng (蔣炳正) said.

On Chen’s return from Nanjing, she said that although she finished fourth in the final of the 500m event, she was happy to have broken the world record.   [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-09-11

Taiwan’s Chan Yung-jan and Swiss player Martina Hingis won the women’s doubles

championship at the US Open on Sunday. This is the first Grand Slam title for Chan. Chan said that since she was a child, she has dreamed of winning a Grand Slam title, so this is “a dream come true”.

The second-seeded Chan and Hingis beat the seventh-seeded Czech team Lucie Hradecka and Katerina Siniakova in two straight sets 6:3, 6:2.

This was Hingis’s 25th Grand Slam title. It was also the pair’s seventh women’s doubles title this year. Chan and Hingis will share the US$675,000 in prize money.

Chan’s last time at the US Open women’s doubles finals was in 2007 when she and her partner Chuang Chia-jung were runners-up.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/11
By Fan Ching-yi and Evelyn Kao

Hanoi, Vietnam, Sept. 11 (CNA) Taiwan’s Liao Min-chun (廖敏竣) and Su Cheng-heng

(蘇敬恆) lost in the men’s doubles final at the Yonex Sunrise Vietnam Open 2017 badminton tournament Sunday, suffering a 1-2 defeat at the hands of their Indonesian opponents.

The tournament, organized by the Vietnam Badminton Federation, kicked off Sept. 4 in Ho Chi Minh City, gathering 330 players from several countries.

Taiwan’s national badminton team, composed of 63 members, was led by Chang Cheng-hsiung (張政雄), the head coach of the Chinese Taipei Badminton Association.

After six days of competition, Liao and Su advanced to the men’s doubles final Sunday but lost to Indonesia’s Wahyu Nayaka Arya Pangkaryanira and Ade Yusuf Santoso 21-12, 16-21, 21-23 to end in second place. The match lasted one hour and five minutes.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/10
By: Timothy Hwang and Evelyn Kao

New York, Sept. 9 (CNA) Taiwanese tennis player Chan Hao-ching (詹皓晴) and her partner Michael Venus of New Zealand lost their mixed doubles title in the final at the U.S. Open on Saturday, succumbing to Switzerland’s Martina Hingis and Britain’s Jamie Murray 6-1 4-6 10-8.

The young Taiwanese-New Zealand pair, seeded third for the tournament, fought a tough battle against the Wimbledon champions Hingis — the former five-time grand slam singles champion — and Murray at the beginning of the match, losing to the top seeds 6-1 in only 22 minutes in the first set.

However, they jumped ahead in the second set, leading their opponents 4-2, but Hingis and Murray fought back to 4-4. In the second-set tiebreak, Chan earned two points in the crucial ninth game at 6-4.

Trailing 8-7 late in the tiebreaker, the top seeds won the last three points to claim the mixed doubles title.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date; 2017/09/10
By: Oscar Wu and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, Sept. 10 (CNA) Taiwanese player Hsu Yu-hsiou (許育修) and Wu Yibing (吳易昺)

of China beat their Japanese competitors 6-4, 5-7, 11-9 in the junior boys’ doubles final of the United States Open Tennis Championships in New York on Saturday to take the title.

It was Hsu’s third straight Grand Slam win this year, following his doubles’ titles at the Australian Open in January alongside Chinese Zhao Lingx (趙靈熙) and at in Wimbledon in June with Argentinean Axel Geller.

In New York, the top seeded Hsu and Wu duo started off strong in the first set but began flagging in the second and dropped 0-3 in the third game.

By the 10th game they had recovered well enough to tie 5-5 but the Japanese pair Toru Horie and Yuta Shimizu won the 12th set 7-5.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/09
By: Lee Chin-wei, Huang Yao-ping and Ko Lin

Taipei, Sept. 9 (CNA) Taiwanese tennis sisters Chan Yung-jan (詹詠然) and Chan Hao-

ching (詹皓晴) reached the finals of the women’s and mixed doubles, respectively, at the US Open on Friday.

The tournament’s second-seeded pair Chan Yung-jan and Martina Hingis of Switzerland defeated Sania Mirza of India and Shuai Peng of China 6-4, 6-4 in 1 hour, 27 minutes in the women’s doubles semifinals.

Chan and Hingis will come up against seventh seeds Lucie Hradecka and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic in the final at Flushing Meadows in New York.

Meanwhile, the younger sister Chan Hao-ching, alongside Michael Venus of Australia, fought past the unseeded pair Anastasia Rodionova of Australia and Oliver Marach of Austria, 6-1, 7-6 (6) in their semifinal match in 1 hour, 11 minutes.    [FULL  STORY]