Taipei Times
Date:  Oct 31, 2015
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter

Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan face Red Group winners, top seeds and

tournament favorites Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza in the semi-finals at the WTA Finals in Singapore at 12:30pm today after they finished second in the White Group with a 2-1 record.

The Swiss-Indian pairing defeated Timea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic of France 6-4, 7-5 in 1 hour, 30 minutes yesterday to complete a clean sweep of their round-robin matches.

“We had played them twice before and we were 1-all, so we knew we had to come out and play well, like we’ve been trying to do every match here at the WTA Finals,” Mirza said in her courtside interview. “We just tried to come out and play our best, and that was enough to win today.”

The victory extended the top seeds’ winning streak to 20 matches.

“It feels pretty good,” Hingis said. “Sania came up to me and asked me why don’t we try to play together, and at first we both had our partners, but as soon as we started we won a hat-trick right away at Indian Wells, Miami and Charleston. It was amazing how fast we clicked. It was a dream to come here to Singapore and hopefully we can keep winning here.”     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/10/29
By: Huang Tzu-chiang and Lee Mei-yu

Singapore, Oct. 29 (CNA) Taiwanese tennis sisters Chan Yung-jan (詹詠然) and Chan Hao-ching (詹皓晴) advanced to the semi-finals of the Women’s doubles of the WTA Finals in Singapore Thursday, despite losing to the Spanish pair of Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro in two sets 5-7, 4-6.

With two wins and one loss in the bag, the third-seeded Taiwanese pair could meet up with top-seeded Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza in the season-ending US$7 million WTA Finals.

The Chan sisters remained unbeatable prior to Thursday’s loss, dispatching two-time Grand Slam-winning pair Lucie Safavora and Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-2, 6-2 the previous day. On Oct. 25, they beat Caroline Garcia and Katrina Srebotnik 6-4, 7-6.     [FULL  STORY]

BACKHANDED:Italy’s Flavia Pennetta bounced back from her initial defeat to claim victory over Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska with her dominant backhand

Taipei Times
Date: Oct 28, 2015
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter, with reuters, SINGAPORE

Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan yesterday crushed the second seeds to win

their second straight round-robin match at the WTA Finals in Singapore and stand on the verge of a spot in Saturday’s semi-finals.

The third-seeded Taiwanese sisters took just 71 minutes to complete a crushing 6-2, 6-2 victory over Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the US and Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic to go top of the White Group.

The Chan sisters saved all three break points they faced and converted four of seven, winning 60 of the 106 points contested to maintain a 100 percent record at the season-ending tournament.

“Got our 2nd win here in the White Group, happy we got the advantage with 2-0, but still need to stay focus with every single match,” Chan Yung-jan said on Facebook.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/10/26
By Han Ting-ting, Lee Yu-cheng and S.C. Chang

Taipei, Oct. 26 (CNA) The government on Monday accepted competitive gaming as an

official sport that merits administrative and business support, a move that was immediately welcomed by the video game industry and professional players.

Lin Chung-chieh, commissioner of Taipei City’s Department of Economic Development, visited the Sports Administration to ask that competitive gaming be recognized as an official sport as well as an industry. The request was granted.

Huang Hung-po, chairman of the Taiwan e-Sports League, said the development means Taiwan is the world’s sixth country to recognize competitive gaming as an official sport, following China, Korea, Italy, Malaysia and the United States.

Pi Ling-li, leader of the FlashWolves team that reached the quarterfinals of the League of Legends (LOL) World Championships earlier this month, said the government and the public’s acceptance and recognition are important for both the players and the industry.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-10-26
By: CNA and Staff Reporter

Taiwan’s defending champion Chou Tien-chen progressed to the Yonex Badminton French

Open men’s singles final, defeating Denmark’s world No. 2 Jan Jorgensen in straight sets (21-11, 21-19) on Saturday, the Chinese Taipei Badminton Association reports.

This was the fifth-ranked Chou’s fourth consecutive victory over Jorgensen, having lost five out of nine previous encounters.

Chou will take on Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, who was ranked first worldwide for 199 consecutive weeks from 2008 to 2012 and now ranks 19th. The Paris event represents a fresh start for Lee, who was handed an eight-month ban for doping by the Badminton World Federation.

Meanwhile, fourth-ranked women’s player Tai Tzu-ying from Taiwan was knocked out the competition by the world’s top-ranked Carolina Marin from Spain, losing 17-21, 17-21, in the semifinals Saturday.     [FULL  STORY]

OFF TO A FLYER:Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan, who with five titles are the second-most successful sisters in WTA Tour history, face the second seeds today

Taipei Times
Date:  Oct 27, 2015
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter, with AFP, SINGAPORE

Taiwanese sisters Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan won their opening match at the

season-ending BNP Paribas WTA Finals in Singapore yesterday.

The No. 3 seeds defeated fifth seeds Caroline Garcia of France and Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia 6-4, 7-6 (7/5) in a hard-fought opening match in the White Group at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

The Chan sisters saved five of eight break points and converted four of nine, winning 82 of the 155 points contested to complete the victory in 1 hour, 49 minutes.

“Tough first round, but I guess it’s tough here every round,” Chan Yung-jan said on Facebook.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/10/25
By: Christie Chen and Luke Sabatier

Taipei, Oct. 25 (CNA) Taiwanese golfer Yani Tseng (曾雅妮), who was seeking a

comeback at this year’s Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship, was left disheartened after finishing tied for 37th at the final round of the tournament on Sunday.

“I’m pretty disappointed because I had a higher expectation for myself going into this tournament compared to others,” Tseng told reporters after the tournament at the Miramar Golf Country Club in New Taipei.

“I did want to win the other tournaments, but I felt like I had to win this one. I wanted to win it for myself, not just for the fans,” she said.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/10/25
By: Lin Hung-han and S.C. Chang

Taipei, Oct. 25 (CNA) Lamigo Monkeys pitcher Patrick Misch threw a no-hit game to trounce ChinaTrust Brother Elephants 11-0 in Game 7 of the best of seven championship series to win the 2015 Chinese Professional Baseball League title Sunday.

It was the first no-hitter in the history of league’s championship series since it began in 1990.

Sunday’s was the ninth championship series that had pulled into Game 7 to produce the season’s champion.

Lamigo Monkeys, which won the first game in the series, suffered a consecutive three defeats in the hands of Brother Elephants. In the critical fifth game, Wang Yi-cheng pitched a complete game to earn the Monkeys a chance of surviving and coming from behind to win the title.     [FULL  STORY]