UPSET, RETIREMENT:World No. 447 Yang Tsung-hua lost to a player ranked 758 lower, but Lee Kuan-yi had a commanding lead before his opponent withdrew

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 17, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AFP

Taiwan and Thailand shared the spoils on the first day of their Davis Cup

Asia/Oceania Group II promotion playoff yesterday.

Thailand’s Kittiphong Wachiramanowong claimed the first singles rubber at the National Tennis Development Center in Nonthaburi, Thailand, but Taiwan fought back through Lee Kuan-yi in the second singles rubber.

World No. 1,205 Wachiramanowong hit eight aces on his way to a surprise 7-6 (8/6), 6-4, 6-1 victory over Taiwanese world No. 447 Yang Tsung-hua in 2 hours, 20 minutes.
The Thai saved five of seven break points and converted six of nine, winning 102 of the 188 points contested to put the hosts 1-0 up in the best-of-five contest for a place in Asia/Oceania Group I next year.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-14
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

The 2016 OEC Kaohsiung ATP Challenger will take place from Sep 19 to Sep 25 at the Yang-Ming Tennis Center, in Kaohsiung City, featuring all the tournament’s past singles winners, according to organizer OEC Sports Marketing & Management Co.

The past winners include 2012 winner Go Soeda of Japan, 2013 and 2014 winner Lu Yen-hsun of Taiwan, and last year’s winner Chung Hyeon of South Korea, OEC Sports said.

What’s also notable about this year’s player lineup is that five Rio tennis Olympians will compete in this year’s event, including Lu, Israel’s top player Dudi Sela, Yuichi Sugita of Japan, John Millman and Jordan Thompson of Australia.

Admission of the tournament is free, requiring only uniform invoices, which the organizers will donate to charities.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/13
By: Lee Chin-wei and Kay Liu

Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 12 (CNA) Taiwanese powerlifter Lin Tzu-hui (林資惠) won the country’s first medal

at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro Monday, a bronze in the women’s under-79 kilogram group.

Lin, who was in fourth place after her second attempt of 125 kg, lifted 131 kg in her final try to win the bronze medal after the third-place holder, Perla Barcenas of Mexico, failed her third attempt.

“I’m very excited. I feel that winning the first medal for the national team is a really good start,” Lin said.

It is the fourth medal for the 34-year-old powerlifter, who is in Rio for her fifth Paralympic Games. She won gold medals in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008, and a bronze in London in 2012.

Nigerian Bose Omolayo won the gold medal in the group by lifting a world record of 138 kg, while the silver medal went to Xu Lili (徐麗麗) of China with 135 kg, both achieved in their second attempts.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/11
By: Lin Hung-han and Kay Liu

Taipei, Sept. 11 (CNA) An annual road race in Taipei on Sunday ended with the dethroning of the five-

year champion in the men’s 12.5-km category, Rio Olympian marathoner Ho Chin-ping (何盡平).

Ho, who was nursing an injury, clocked 41 minutes 20 seconds, finishing in third place for the first time in six years in the Seiko Super Runner competition.

He was beaten by long distance runner Chou Ting-yin (周庭印), who took the title with a time of 39:26, and marathoner Li Ming-sheng (李銘勝) with a time of 40:53.

In the women’s category, Tsao Chun-yu (曹純玉), who is training for the Summer Universiade in Taipei next year, won the 12.5-km race in a time of 44:59, competing for the first time in the event.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/11
By: Ku Chuan and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, Sept. 11 (CNA) A Taiwanese tug-of-war team grabbed two more gold medals at the 2016 Tug

of War International Federation (TWIF) World Outdoor Championships in Sweden on Saturday, bringing the country’s total medal count to five in this year’s competitions.

The team, comprising students from National Taiwan Normal University and Taipei Jingmei Girls High School, won the women’s under-23 years of age 500 kg category and successfully defended its fourth title in the women’s 500 kg category at this year’s Championship Saturday.

The TWIF World Outdoor Championships includes the Tug of War World Championship and the Open Club Championship.

A total of 27 countries are represented at the four-day event.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 12, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter

Taiwan’s Lee Ya-hsuan claimed the first WTA Tour title of her career in the doubles at the Dalian

Women’s Open in China yesterday, while Japanese seventh seed Misa Eguchi’s bid for the singles title ended in heartbreak when she was forced to retire just two points from victory.

Lee and Kotomi Takahata of Japan cruised to the doubles title, crushing Nicha Lertpitaksinchai of Thailand and Jessy Rompies of Indonesia 6-2, 6-1 in just 54 minutes.

The Taiwanese-Japanese duo saved all three break points they faced and converted five of seven, winning 52 of the 84 points contested to claim the doubles title at the WTA 125k tournament.

It was 21-year-old world No. 199 Lee’s first career WTA Tour title. She had previously won five singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Tour.

In the singles final, Kristyna Pliskova won the title when a knee injury forced Eguchi to retire when leading 5-2 in the deciding set.     [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: September 12, 2016
By: CNA

Taiwanese baseball veteran Chen Chin-feng of the visiting Lamigo Monkeys tips his hat to the crowd

in a game in Taichung, Sunday, Sept. 11. The home team CTBC Brothers’ star Peng Cheng-min presented the ball player with a bag of golf clubs in honor of Chen, who is set to retire from professional baseball on Sept. 18.     [SOURCE]