Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/05
By: Lee Yu-cheng and Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, Sept. 5 (CNA) Russell Westbrook, the Oklahoma City Thunder star point guard, coached young

basketball players in Taiwan on Monday as he wrapped up a two-day stay in the country.

In addition to having breakfast with local young talents to share his own experience, Westbrook, one of the Jordan Brand-sponsored NBA players, was seen coaching the players in a basketball game.

Visiting Taiwan for the first time, Westbrook seemed to enjoy the time he spent with his fans, giving out signature basketballs and taking selfies with them.

“Thanks for the love Taiwan, great way to end the trip!” he wrote on his Facebook page.      [SOURCE]

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 04, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AFP, NEW YORK

Taiwan’s Chan sisters, Chuang Chia-jung and Lu Yen-hsun crashed out of the US Open on Friday,

failing to make the second week in the women’s and men’s doubles tournaments at Flushing Meadows in New York.

Second seeds Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan fought back from a set down to level the match against unseeded duo Alla Kudryavtseva and Sabine Lisicki in their second-round women’s doubles match, but eventually succumbed 6-2, 0-6, 6-3 in 1 hour, 20 minutes.

The Russian-German pairing saved four of nine break points and converted six of nine, winning 68 of the 135 points contested to advance to a third-round clash with 13th-seeded Slovenians Andreja Klepac and Katarina Srebotnik.

In the first round of the women’s doubles, Chuang and Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine also fought back from a set down, but exited 6-0, 6-7 (6/8), 6-3 to Naomi Broady and Shelby Rogers in 2 hours, 10 minutes.     [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: September 4, 2016
By: The China Post news staff

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The 2016 CTBC Ladies Open (中國信託女子公開賽) rounded off three days of golf on

Saturday afternoon at the Orient Golf & Country Club.

Taiwanese number one and world number 28 Teresa Lu (盧曉晴) took home the championship, along with a NT$1million cash prize.

“This is the first time a player from Taiwan has won the open in its five year history; the best gift the CTBC Bank could have asked for to celebrate the 50th anniversary,” said Chen Kuo-shih, vice chairman of CTBC Bank, at the trophy presentation ceremony held at the end of the event.

Lu posted 11 below par with a total of 169 over three rounds to win.

During the first two rounds, the eventual winner tied for third place with two other players, four strokes behind Thailand’s Saranporn Langkulgasettrin.

But Lu performed brilliantly in the final round, coming from behind to take the win and pushing Langkulgasettrin into second place.     [FULL STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 03, 2016
By: Grant Dexter / Staff reporter

Poor handling cost Taiwan on the opening day of the Asian Rugby Sevens Series in Hong Kong

yesterday.

Taiwan started their campaign against Sri Lanka in poor fashion, their defense allowing four first-half tries to all but end the contest. Hsieh Pin-yi barged his way over for a try and Ho Ming-hsien added a try and a conversion while Sri Lanka were down to six men after a yellow card, but Ho missed the conversion to Hsieh’s score from a few meters to the right of the posts and Sri Lanka exploited some slow defenders on the flanks to take the final score to 43-12.

Taiwan’s scrum shoved Sri Lanka off their own ball in the first pack-down of the match, but atrocious handling, lazy passing and poor execution after the numerous restarts they had to wait under put them well behind the eight ball.     [FULL  STORY]

‘SO FAR, SO GOOD’:Wimbledon champions Serena Williams and Andy Murray, as well as Connecticut Open winner Agnieszka Radwanska, made it through to the third round

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 03, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AFP, NEW YORK

The Chan sisters eased into the second round of the women’s doubles at the US Open on Thursday,

before elder sister Chan Yung-jan returned to the hard courts at Flushing Meadows in the mixed doubles to battle into the second round and keep the Taiwanese challenge on track at the final Grand Slam of the year.

Second seeds Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan took just 72 minutes to see off Chinese duo Han Xinyun and Zhang Kai-lin in the first round of the women’s doubles, converting five of nine break points as their opponents served up eight double faults in a 6-2, 6-2 victory in which they won 63 of the 108 points contested.

The Taiwanese sisters advanced to a potential second-round banana skin against unseeded Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia and Sabine Lisicki of Germany.

Chan Yung-jan, competing in her 15th US Open, then returned on Court 8 alongside Nenad Zimonjic and survived a second-set fightback against US duo Melanie Oudin and Mitchell Krueger to advance to the second round of the mixed doubles 6-0, 6-7 (4/7), 10-4 in 72 minutes.

The Taiwanese-Serbian pairing saved three of five break points and converted five of nine, winning 70 of the 122 points contested to set up a second-round clash with either eighth seeds Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic and Marcin Matkowski of Poland or Kudryavtseva and Scott Lipsky of the US.     [FULL  STORY]

The Chinese Taipei Baseball Association has been accused of ripping down pro-Taiwan independence banners at an international baseball game.

The News Lens
Date: 2016/09/02
By: Yuan-ling Liang

Controversy hit the 11th Asian 18U Baseball Championship held in Taichung on Aug. 31 after staff at

the stadium took action against fans who displayed pro-Taiwan political slogans.

Taiwan’s team was participating under the name “Chinese Taipei,” the nation’s official designation in international sports events. During Taiwan’s game against Japan, a group of college students held up a banner saying “Taiwan is just Taiwan, Taiwan is not Chinese Taipei” in the bleachers behind home base. Soon after it went up, the banner was ripped down and the students were dispersed by staff from the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association (CTBA).

The students are filing lawsuits against the CTBA for what they argue constituted infringement on their freedom of speech.     [FULL  STORY]

FIVE-SETTER:Ivo Karlovic sent down 61 aces in their first-round match at the US Open, taking him to 11,277 aces over his career, 1,000 more than the next best

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 01, 2016
By: AFP, NEW YORK

Ivo Karlovic on Tuesday served his way into the US Open record books when he fired 61 aces in his

4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/5), 7-5 win over Lu Yen-hsun of Taiwan.

Karlovic, 37, beat the previous best of 49 aces for one match in New York served up by Richard Krajicek in his quarter-final loss to Yevgeny Kafelnikov in 1999.
“I knew there were a lot of aces, because there was a period [in the second set] when almost every serve was an ace,” Karlovic said. “I knew there was a lot, but I didn’t know it was this many.”

“Very tough one today! Congrats to Ivo and good luck for the rest [of the tournament],” Lu said on Twitter after the match.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 31, 2016 – Page 16
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter

Taiwan’s coaches might have to juggle the lineup and improve the tactics for tomorrow’s international

friendly against Japan after the hosts were unable to find the net, falling to the visitors 2-0 at the Taipei Municipal Stadium on Monday.

Taiwan coach Satoshi Imai experimented with an unorthodox 4-6-0 formation on Monday, in which both sides fielded college-level players who are eligible for next year’s Universiade in Taipei.

However, Imai’s tactic of packing six midfielders in the center of the pitch in a bid to win possession and push attacks from deep failed to create the intended result.

In that first game of the Taiwan-Japan friendly series, co-organized with the Japan University Football Association, Japan captain Takuya Shigehiro opened the account with a long-range effort in the 38th minute.

Taiwan almost got an equalizer three minutes from the break, when midfielder Chen Chia-chun fed a cross to Lo Chih-hsien in the box, but Lo headed the ball just wide of the post.     [FULL  STORY]

FIVE-SETTER:Ivo Karlovic sent down 61 aces in their first-round match at the US Open, taking him to 11,277 aces over his career, 1,000 more than the next best

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 01, 2016
By: AFP, NEW YORK

Ivo Karlovic on Tuesday served his way into the US Open record books when he fired 61 aces in his

4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/5), 7-5 win over Lu Yen-hsun of Taiwan.

Karlovic, 37, beat the previous best of 49 aces for one match in New York served up by Richard Krajicek in his quarter-final loss to Yevgeny Kafelnikov in 1999.
“I knew there were a lot of aces, because there was a period [in the second set] when almost every serve was an ace,” Karlovic said. “I knew there was a lot, but I didn’t know it was this many.”

“Very tough one today! Congrats to Ivo and good luck for the rest [of the tournament],” Lu said on Twitter after the match.

Lu and partner Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia were to play Spain’s Inigo Cervantes and Italy’s Paolo Lorenzi in the first round of the men’s doubles.     [FULL  STORY]