The China Post
Date: June 15, 2016
By: CNA

TAIPEI — Taiwanese left-hander Wei-Yin Chen (陳偉殷) picked up his fourth win of the year for the

Miami Marlins and the 50th of his MLB career when his team routed the San Diego Padres 13-4 on Monday night.

The 30-year-old Chen, who had never faced the Padres, got the win despite yielding four solo homers in six innings. He gave up seven hits and one walk while striking out seven.

The Marlins had 19 hits, including three by Ichiro Suzuki, and put the game out of reach with a seven-run rally in the top of the third inning that gave them an 8-1 lead.

Monday’s win was the 50th of Chen’s Major League Baseball career after racking up 36 wins pitching professionally for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan from 2008 to 2011.

His MLB total is the second-most for any Taiwanese pitcher, trailing only the 65 wins posted by Chien-Ming Wang (王建民), who won most of his games as a starter for the New York Yankees but is now a reliever for the Kansas City Royals.     [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: June 15, 2016
By: CNA

TAIPEI — Taiwanese left-hander Wei-Yin Chen (陳偉殷) picked up his fourth win of the year for the

Miami Marlins and the 50th of his MLB career when his team routed the San Diego Padres 13-4 on Monday night.

The 30-year-old Chen, who had never faced the Padres, got the win despite yielding four solo homers in six innings. He gave up seven hits and one walk while striking out seven.

The Marlins had 19 hits, including three by Ichiro Suzuki, and put the game out of reach with a seven-run rally in the top of the third inning that gave them an 8-1 lead.

Monday’s win was the 50th of Chen’s Major League Baseball career after racking up 36 wins pitching professionally for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan from 2008 to 2011.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/06/13
By: Lee Yu-cheng and Lilian Wu

Taipei, June 13 (CNA) Taiwan’s top-ranked male tennis player Lu Yen-hsun (盧彥勳) won his first title

of the year on Sunday, outlasting a hard-serving Romanian in the final of the grass-court Surbiton Challenger that had to be finished on an indoor hard court because of rain.

Lu fought off three set points in the second-set to overcome Marius Copil 7-5, 7-6 (11) to take his 23rd ATP Challenger title and improve his ranking from 97th last week to 78th this week.

The match was on serve at 5-4 in the first set when rain came, and the tournament director decided to complete it indoors on a hard surface.

“It was a big challenge for both of us, because you have to play a completely different style. I’m really happy I won the match in the end,” Lu said on his website.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-06-13
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Top Taiwanese tennis player Lu Yen-hsun captured his first ATP title in 2016 at the €42,500 Aegon

Surbiton Trophy of the ATP Challenger Tour on Monday after beating Romanian player Marius Copil in the singles final, 7-5, 7-6 (13-11).

Lu’s opponent in the final was a qualifier and No. 176 in the ATP singles ranking before the tournament.

After the win, Lu moved up from No. 97 to No. 78 in this week’s ATP singles ranking.

Lu had an operation in the elbow at the beginning of this year. After taking a few months’ rest, he returned to the tour to play at Seoul Challenger in early May and finished runner-up.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/06/12
By: Lee Yu-cheng and Romulo Huang

Taipei, June 12 (CNA) Taiwan’s top tennis player Lu Yen-hsun (盧彥勳) is to vie for the title of ATP

Surbiton Challenger being held in the British city of Surbiton on Sunday (UK time).

Lu came from behind to defeat Jordan Thompson of Australia 6-7 (5), 6-3 and 7-6 (4) at a semifinal of the tournament on Saturday. He will take on Marius Copil from Romania in the final.

Copil beat Bjorn Fratengelo from the United States in two straight sets 6-3 and 6-4 at the other match of the semifinals played on the same day.

This is the second consecutive week that Lu have advanced to the final of an ATP challenger grass-court tour event. He was defeated by Dustin Brown of Germany in the final of Manchester Challenger on June 5 in two straight sets 7-6 (5) and 6-1.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/06/12
By: Chang Che-feng and CNA intern Brook Hsiao

Kaohsiung, June 12 (CNA) Visiting NBA star Jeremy Lin (林書豪) encouraged Taiwanese young basketball players to improve their three-point shooting while concluding a 2-day basketball summer camp Sunday in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, in which he coached 60 junior and senior high school players.

In the camp held at I-Shou University’s sports stadium, Lin and his high school coach Brandynn Williams demonstrated dribbling and other skills and taught the teenage players how to improve their skills.

Lin praised the 60 attendants of the camp for their excellent performance in playing basketball and expressed his hope that they could improve their 3-point accuracy.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/06/11
By: Wang Shu-fen and Christie Chen

Kaohsiung, June 11 (CNA) Visiting NBA star Jeremy Lin (林書豪) on Saturday attended a basketball

camp in southern Taiwan’s Kaohsiung, where he coached 60 junior and senior high school basketball players.

Lin and his high school coach Brandynn Williams demonstrated dribbling and other techniques and taught the teenage players how to improve their skills at I-Shou University’s sports stadium, which was packed with enthusiastic fans who wished to catch a glimpse of the star.

As the camp coincided with Taiwan’s four-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, Lin and Williams were treated to a traditional food for the festival called zongzi — glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo and stuffed with different fillings — at the camp.

After the NBA season concluded in June, he rested for only two weeks before resuming training, Lin told reporters in Mandarin before the camp.     [FULL  STORY]

‘UNPLEASANTNESS’:Celebrations after the game were in stark contrast with a downcast atmosphere earlier in the week, as the team’s owner is under investigation

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 12, 2016
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter

The Brothers Baseball Club on Friday night won the first-half season title in the CPBL by defeating

the EDA Rhinos 7-5 in Taichung, securing their league-best 32 wins against 20 losses for this year’s campaign thus far.
After the game, most of the near-capacity audience at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium tossed yellow streamers — the Brothers’ traditional club color — in the air in local baseball title-winning celebration.

By winning the first-half title, the Brothers secured a berth at the end-of-season championship finals, the Taiwan Series, in which they are to face the winner of the second-half title.

Players and club officials congratulated each other after the game, with some joining fans for selfies.

The joyous mood was in sharp contrast with the downcast atmosphere earlier this week, when team owner Jeffrey Koo Jr was summoned for questioning and released on NT$100 million (US$3.1 million) bail, while CTBC Financial Holding offices were raided in connection with an investigation into financial irregularities.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date; 2016/06/10
By: Christie Chen and Lee Yu-cheng

Taipei, June 10 (CNA) NBA player Jeremy Lin (林書豪), who is back on the free-agent market after declining his player option with the Charlotte Hornets on Tuesday, said in Taipei on Friday that he will consider many factors when choosing his next team.

“Everyone knows that I’m a free agent. The most important thing for me is that I want to be happy,” said Lin in Mandarin in an interview with local media after arriving in Taiwan on Friday as part of his annual Asia tour.

Among the factors that will determine the best fit for him will be his new team’s style of play, whether his coach likes him and whether his teammates are “humble,” said Lin, the first NBA player of Taiwanese descent.

“And of course, it will depend on whether I am a starter and how much playing time I get,” the 27-year-old point guard said. “I will take all that into consideration.”     [FULL  STORY]