Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/05/21
By: Oscar Wu and Kuo Chung-han

Taipei, May 21 (CNA) Taiwan’s Chan Yung-jan (詹詠然) and Martina Hingis of

Switzerland won the Internazionali BNL d’Italia women’s doubles title in Rome on Sunday.

The second-seeded Chan and Hingis took the title with a 7-5, 7-6 (4) win over top seeds Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova of Russia, to give the duo some momentum heading into the upcoming French Open, where Chan will be seeking the first Grand Slam title of her career.

She has come close before, reaching the women’s double final of the Australian Open and US Open in 2007 and of the Australian Open in 2015.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: May 22, 2017
By: Staff writer, with CNA

Golfer Teresa Lu yesterday took second in the Chukyo TV Bridgestone Ladies

Open in Japan with a score of 14-under par, two shots behind winner Momoko Ueda of Japan.

Lu started yesterday tied for fourth at eight-under 136 after the first two rounds of the Japan LPGA event and birdied three of the first five holes to move up the leaderboard.

However, Ueda, who was one spot ahead of Lu after the first two rounds, birdied her first three holes to keep pace.

Ueda later fell back into a tie for first with Lu after bogeying the 15th hole, but she birdied two of the last three holes while Lu could only manage pars to win the ￥70 million (US$629,129) tournament.

Ueda shot a 7-under 65 in the final round to Lu’s 6-under 66 to secure the two-shot victory.

Taipei-born Lu, who has been a regular on the Japan LPGA Tour since 2010, has won 13 JLPGA titles as of last month.

After her second-place finish yesterday, Lu ranks seventh on the Japan LPGA money list with winnings of ￥33.8 million so far this year.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/05/21
By: Liu te-chang and Lee Hsin-Yin

Bangkok, May 21 (CNA) Liu Tsu-yuan (劉祖沅) of Taiwan fought through pain to win

boys’ decathlon title Sunday at the Asian Youth Athletics Championships in Bangkok.

Having sustained an ankle injury during a high jump challenge the previous day, Liu showed tremendous willpower to complete the game, nabbing the gold with 5,982 points.

The silver medal went to India’s Mohit, who scored 5,976 points.

Liu has conquered quite a number of obstacles before coming to the final event — the 1,500-meter run, including breaking of his pole in the pole vault challenge earlier Sunday.    [FULL  STORY]

MOVING UP:In the Taiwan Premier Football League’s inaugural year, Taipower and Tatung are vying for first place, with only a two point gap ahead of the finals

Taipei Times
Date: May 22, 2017
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter

The Taiwan Premier Football League’s (TPFL) top two teams, Kaohsiung-based

Taipower and Taipei-based Tatung, cruised to easy wins this weekend with only two points separating them at the top of the table, with the title race likely going down to the final round in October for this inaugural season.

Taipower on Saturday collected three points when they thrashed Fu Jen Catholic University-Hang Yuan team 8-1 at Tainan’s Yonghua Soccer Ground. They have 42 points to hold down first place.

Attacking midfielder Huang Han-sheng scored a hat-trick, with one before the break and then netting two late goals in the second half to earn man-of-the-match honor.
[FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: May 21, 2017
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter

A boys’ soccer team from Taipei representing Taiwan made it past the group stage

into the knockout round at an Asian youth tournament in Singapore earlier this month, from which they brought home valuable experience of playing against top-level competition and the thrill of meeting two former England internationals — Paul Parker and Emile Heskey.

The Master Football Academy (MFA) under-12 team were the sole representatives from Taiwan at this year’s Junior Soccer School & League (JSSL) International Sevens competition in Singapore, which took place from April 29 to May 1.

According to the organizers, the event is the biggest international youth soccer tournament in Asia, with 270 teams from 15 nations.    [FULL  STORY]

The temporary standard swimming pool is completed in 60 days

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/05/20
By: Maggie Huang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — With Taipei Summer Universiade around the corner, Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) posted an article on his Facebook, saying that the city has complete the construction of a temporary standard swimming pool in 60 days by new techniques.

Ko also shared a video that showed how foreign engineers were taking the measurement and how a work crew was assembling the pool piece by piece. He also mentioned that many swimming pools built for the international competition were hard to maintain after the competition is over and usually ended up becoming disused public property.

This time, Taipei city decided to adopt new techniques and install a movable swimming pool at the gym of National Taiwan Sport University, while the whole set of the temporary swimming pool was airlifted to Taiwan from overseas.
[FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: May 19, 2017
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AP, ROME

Taiwan’s Chan Yung-jan and Martina Hingis survived a huge scare to keep their bid for

back-to-back doubles titles on track at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia on Wednesday, while top seed Angelique Kerber was not so fortunate, losing her opening match at the Foro Italico to Estonian qualifier Anett Kontaveit.

Second seeds Chan and Hingis rallied from a set down against Nao Hibino of Japan and Alicja Rosolska of Poland to edge a tight second-round contest 4-6, 7-5, 11-9 in 1 hour, 38 minutes.

The Taiwanese-Swiss duo saved three of six break points and converted three of six, winning 75 of the 144 points contested to advance to the quarter-finals in Rome.

The second seeds are looking for a third title as a pairing and the second in a week after they triumphed at the Mutua Madrid Open on Saturday.

In the women’s singles, world No. 1 Kerber fell to a shock 6-4, 6-0 loss to Kontaveit.

Kerber joined Andy Murray, the men’s world No. 1, on the sidelines after Murray’s loss to Fabio Fognini on Tuesday.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/05/17
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)–With Taipei Summer Universiade only 93 days away, the

organizer of the games invited the public out for movies on the nights of this coming weekend.

The Universiade Movie Night will transform Daan Forest Park into a starlight movie theater, according to the organizer. “Taipei citizens are sincerely welcome to invite your friends and family to have a wonderful picnic and a party of sports movies under the starry night,” the organizer said in a post on the Taipei Universiade official website.

The organizer will play international movies by theme for each night from May 19 to May 21. Six specially-selected sports movies from Canada, Netherlands, Singapore, Germany, Australia, and France are all first to the public in Taiwan. Two sports movies from Taiwan–“Step back to glory” (志氣) and “Jump! Boys” (翻滾吧！男孩)–that are both awarded Golden Horse Awards will also be played, according to the organizer.
[FULL  STORY]