Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/07/07
By: Hsieh Ching-wen and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, July 7 (CNA) A Taiwanese Little League team from Taipei fell 6-1 to a team from South Korea on Friday in the final of the Asia-Pacific Regional Tournament, missing out on a chance to play in the Little League World Series in Williamsport next month.

The Tung Yuan Little League team, which represented the Asia-Pacific region in the 2015 World Series, had lost to the Koreans 12-0 in a preliminary round game in the tournament on July 1 and was hoping to get their revenge in the final.

The South Koreans took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second, taking advantage of a walk and error to open the scoring.

Taiwan put together a string of hits to tie the game in the top of the fourth, but its bullpen struggled in the bottom of the inning.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/07/06
By: Lee Chin-wei and Romulo Huang

Taipei, July 6 (CNA) Taiwanese table tennis team formed by Chen Chien-an (陳建安) and Chiang

Hung-chieh (江宏傑) advanced to the final of the men’s doubles at Australia Open after defeating their Singaporean rivals 3-2 (12-14, 11-7, 8-11, 11-4 and 11-7). in the semifinals in Gold Coast on Thursday.

The Taiwanese duo will take on a South Korean team comprised of Jang Woo-jin and Park Gang-hy in the final to be held on Friday to vie for the men’s doubles title. The South Koreans beat their Japanese rivals 3-0 (11-9, 11-5 and 11-8) in another semifinal match on the same day.

The US$500,000 event, which opened on July 4, is the world’s richest table tennis open event on the 2017 International Table Tennis Federation’s (ITTF) world tour calendar. It will run through July 7 with the participation of 150 athletes from around 30 countries vying for titles of men’s individuals, men’s doubles, women’s individuals, women’s doubles and mixed doubles.    [SOURCE]

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 07, 20172
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with Reuters, LONDON

Chan Yung-jan cruised into the second round of the women’s doubles at Wimbledon on Wednesday,

but fellow Taiwanese Hsieh Cheng-peng crashed out in the men’s doubles in London.

Third seeds Chan and Martina Hingis raced to a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Alize Cornet of France and Xenia Knoll of Switzerland in just 51 minutes on Court 16 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

The Taiwanese-Swiss duo saved the only break point they faced and converted five of eight, winning 55 of the 85 points contested to cruise into the second round at the third Grand Slam of the year.

In the men’s doubles, Hsieh and Max Schnur of the US fell to a 7-5, 6-1, 7-6 (7/5) defeat to Marcin Matkowski of Poland and Max Mirnyi of Belarus in 1 hour, 56 minutes.

In the women’s singles, when Petra Kvitova returned to competition after six months out recovering from a horrific knife attack, the idea of her winning a third Wimbledon title was talked of as a “fairy tale,” but there was no happy ending for the Czech, whose bid to repeat her triumphs in 2011 and 2014 ended with a second-round loss to world No. 95 Madison Brengle of the US.   [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/07/05
By: Lin Hung-han and Romulo Huang

Taipei, July 5 (CNA) President of the Baseball Federation of Asia (BFA) Tom Peng (彭誠浩), honorary

president of Chinese Taipei Baseball Association, was reelected to head the Asian organization for another four-year term at the BFA Congress and Executive Committee Meeting held on July 4 in Yilan, northeastern Taiwan.

Yoshinobu Suzuki of Japan, Yang Hae-young of South Korea and Chen Xu of China were elected as BFA vice presidents at the same meeting.

Speaking after being reelected, Peng said the BFA will continue to be a reliable working partner of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC).

“We will continue to share the WBSC’s responsibility for organizing international baseball tournaments and help to promote baseball among children. That in turn will allow the younger generation to learn more about the sport, increase their love of baseball and make them long-term baseball fans,” Peng said.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 06, 2017
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AFP, LONDON

Chan Hao-ching yesterday got her women’s doubles campaign off to a winning start on the grass

courts at Wimbledon, while fellow Taiwanese Chang Kai-chen bounced back from her opening-day defeat in the singles to also advance to the second round.

Ninth seeds Chan and Monica Niculescu defeated Veronica Cepede Royg of Paraguay and Raluca Olaru of Romania 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 in 1 hour, 44 minutes on Court 4 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London.

The Taiwanese-Romanian duo saved just one of four break points and converted five of 13, winning 79 of the 145 points contested.

Chang and Sloane Stephens defeated Chinese duo Duan Yingying and Liang Chen 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in 1 hour, 56 minutes on Court 8.

The Taiwanese-American pairing saved 10 of 16 break points and converted seven of 13, winning 97 of the 196 points contested.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/07/04
By: George Liao,Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)–All of three singles players from Taiwan were knocked out of the first round

on the Wimbledon 2017 opening day, leaving six compatriot players to fighting it out on the doubles sides.

Taiwan’s Lu Yen-hsun (盧彥勳) and Chang Kai-chen (張凱貞) played their respective first-round match at 11:30 a.m. London time on July 3. In the men’s singles, world No. 75 Lu took on 313th-ranked Simone Bolelli of Italy. Lu was defeated in four sets, a much earlier exit compared to his best Wimbledon performance of reaching quarterfinals in 2010.

In the women’s singles, Chang lost in straight sets to China’s Wang Qiang (王薔).

Later in the day, Hsieh Su-wei (謝淑薇), Taiwan’s last hope in the singles, fell in straight sets to 7th-ranked Johanna Konta, who had the home-court advantage.

Hsieh Su-wei wasn’t able to repeat the same turnaround against Konta in the first round at Roland Garros less than five weeks ago.

Doubles players from Taiwan look more promising, especially the Chan sisters. In the women’s doubles, elder sister Chan Yung-jan (詹詠然) and Martina Hingis is the third seeds. The team, which was formed in February this year, has since claimed five doubles victories on the tour. They head to Wimbledon among the favorites to land the title of the third Grand Slam of the year.
[FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/07/04
By: Hsu Chih-wei and CNA intern Lee Meng-tien

Taipei, July 4 (CNA) In order to promote the upcoming 2017 Taipei Universiade, the Youth

Development Administration (YDA) has invited domestic and foreign young people to help promote the Universiade and its Youth Travel Spot project, which is providing 200 young people with free Universiade tickets.

Young people aged between 18 and 30 who want to participate must form a two-person team, with one Taiwanese national and one foreigner, and post about the Universiade, which takes place Aug. 19-30, and Youth Travel Spots on social media.

Participants must have at least 300 friends on their social media account and tag at least five friends, with two hashtags for the event and the project.

The YDA will randomly select 100 teams from those who are qualified, and each of the 200 will win a Universiade ticket, a Universiade souvenir and an opportunity to take part in a Youth Travel Spot activity. The YDA is conducting the promotional activity with cooperation from the 2017 Taipei Universiade organizing committee.    [FULL  STORY]

THE WHOLE SHEBANG:Japan’s Kei Nishikori crushed Italy’s Marco Cecchinato, saying afterward that he felt healthy and confident, and aims to win the tournament

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 05, 2017
By: Reuters, LONDON

British No. 1 Johanna Konta on Monday took revenge on Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei at Wimbledon,

sending the Taiwanese home 6-2, 6-2 after losing to her in the first round of the French Open.

The sixth seed beat two Grand Slam champions in a day on the grass at last week’s rain-interrupted Eastbourne International, arriving in brimming with form, but had been an injury scare after a heavy fall forced her to withdraw from her semi-final.

However, she appeared to be moving well in front of a cheering Court One crowd and told reporters she felt “absolutely fine.”

“I was really just trying to stay as focused on what I was trying to do out there, and not necessarily get caught up in her web,” the 26-year-old said of Hsieh, who had beaten her in three sets on the Paris clay.    [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: July 4, 2017
By: Chen Fan-neng, Special to The China Post

Boston Red Sox manager John Edward Farrell said he was happy with the performance of Taiwanese

infielder Lin Tzu-wei (林子偉), calling him “a pleasant surprise” during an interview on Monday.

Lin finished the first nine innings in Monday’s game with zero hits but helped the Red Sox defeat the Texas Rangers 7-5 in overtime with a walk and two runs.

After the game, Farrell told The Boston Globe that “Lin’s making most of the opportunity.”

“I think Tzu-Wei has been a pleasant surprise given the way he’s hit the baseball with the fair consistency he’s shown,” Farrell said.

The Red Sox clinched its fifth straight win on Monday despite losing its main infielders due to injuries.

To fill in that gap, Lin had been promoted from the Double-A Portland to the Major Leagues at the end of last month.  [FULL  STORY]