Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/28
By: Li Yu-cheng and Bill Lin

Taipei, July 28 (CNA) Taiwanese archers beat Ukraine 5-1 on Monday to advance to the

quarterfinals in the men’s team recurve bow archery event of the 2015 Copenhagen World Archery Championships taking place in Denmark, the Chinese Taipei Archery Association announced Tuesday.

The victory qualifies Taiwan for the men’s team recurve bow event at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Copenhagen championship, which kicked off July 26 and will run through Aug. 2, is authorized as an Olympic qualifying event.     [FULL  STORY]

STRAIGHT-SETS VICTORY:Taiwan’s Lu Yen-hsun beat Malek Jaziri 6-1, 7-6 (14/12) to face Vasek Pospisil in the second round. He is also competing in the doubles

Taipei Times
Date:  Jul 29, 2015
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter

Taiwanese No. 1 Lu Yen-hsun advanced to the second round of the Atlanta Open on Monday

with a straight-sets victory over Malek Jaziri of Tunisia.

World No. 76 Lu survived a second-set fightback to defeat the world No. 77 6-1, 7-6 (14/12) on the hard courts at Atlantic Station.

Jaziri held his serve in the first game, but then Lu won six straight to wrap up the first set in just 24 minutes.

Jaziri then rallied in the second, breaking the Taiwanese No. 1 to take a 4-2 lead, but Lu broke back when the Tunisian was serving for the set at 5-4.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/28
By: Lee Yu-cheng and Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, July 28 (CNA) Taiwan’s tennis sisters Chan Yung-jan (詹詠然) and Chan Hao-ching (詹

皓晴) are going to team up again in a series of upcoming doubles matches in a bid to vie for the qualifications for the Rio 2016 Olympics, Hao-ching said Tuesday.

Yung-jan and Hao-ching are currently rank 22nd and 33rd in women’s doubles, respectively.

Hao-ching said at a promotional event held by their sponsor that they hope the partnership will give them the opportunity to qualify for next year’s Olympics, adding that she and her sister will play together in upcoming matches including the U.S. Open, Rogers Cup Toronto and Western & Southern Cincinnati Tennis Masters.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/27
By: Romulo Huang

Taipei, July 27 (CNA) Taiwan got Monday its fourth straight win in the 2015 U-12 Baseball

World Cup of the World Baseball and Softball Confederation (WBSC), beating Russia 14-0 in a 5-inning called game at Tainan Stadium in southern Taiwan in the opening round of the championship.

In the five other games played Monday, Venezuela got past Korea 4-3, the U.S. whipped Australia 13-1, Japan blanked France 21-0, Nicaragua topped Mexico 7-4 and Cuba beat Brazil 4-1.

As of Monday, the fourth day of the opening round of the tournament which is being conducted on a round-robin basis and divided into two groups of six national teams each, Taiwan took the lead in Group A with four wins and no losses, followed by Cuba and Venezuela, both with with 3 wins and 1 loss. Korea was next with 2 wins and 2 losses, while Brazil and Russia were at the bottom of the standing with 4 losses and no wins.

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/27
By Ken Chao

Taipei, July 27 (CNA) The first of two teams that will represent the LMS region (composed of the top teams in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau) in the 2015 League of Legends (英雄聯盟) World Championships this October has been confirmed.

At the grand finals on Sunday evening, AHQ e-Sports Club (AHQ), one of the top League of Legends teams in Taiwan, continued its dominance at League of Legends Master Series (LMS) through the entire Summer Split regular season, punching their ticket to the 2015 World Championships after its 3-0 victory over HongKong eSports (HKE).

Although it took down HKE relatively unscathed, AHQ’s path to victory was not a bed of roses.

Throughout the three games, despite its gold lead acquired in the early game mainly achieved by destroying more turrets, AHQ was punished by HKE for many of its mistakes, including AHQ’s loss of several lives at the Baron pit in games one and three, which enabled HKE to narrow the deficit and even gain the upper hand for some time.      [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/26
By: Lee Yu-cheng and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, July 26 (CNA) Taiwan scored its third straight win in the 2015 U-12 Baseball World Cup of the World Baseball and Softball Confederation (WBSC), beating Cuba 6-5 at Tainan Stadium in southern Taiwan Sunday in the opening round of the championship.

Before the game, the two teams each had two wins and zero losses in the Group A tournaments, which started July 24.

In Sunday’s game, Taiwan and Cuba were tied 5-5 at bottom of the sixth inning and it was not until the seventh inning that Taiwan scored one point to pull ahead.

It was the first showdown between Taiwan and Cuba since the final game in the 2011 U-12 Baseball World Cup, which Taiwan won 3-2.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/26
By: Lin Hung-han and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, July 26 (CNA) Tsao Chin-hui (曹錦輝), the first Taiwanese pitcher to play in the major

league in the United States, was optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma City after a poor performance in a relief call by the Los Angeles Dodgers in their game against the New York Mets in New York Saturday.

In a Twitter post after a 15-2 loss to the Mets, the Dodgers said Tsao and Josh Ravion would be optioned.

Called in at the bottom of the fifth inning, Tsao allowed six runs on seven hits and a walk while only recording two outs.

On the season, he has an ERA of 10.29 in five games, allowing nine runs on 15 hits, including three home runs, in seven innings, with seven strikeouts and three walks.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/25
By: Lee Yu-cheng and Romulo Huang

Taipei, July 25 (CNA) Taiwan won Saturday three bronze medals in the Asian Judo Open-2015 Taipei that was inaugurated on that day with the participation of some 300 athletes from 34 countries around the world.

The event, which will run through Sunday, has been authorized by the Judo Union of Asia as one of the tournaments granting qualifying points for the 2016 Olympic Games, the organizers said.

The two-day competition, therefore, has attracted many prominent athletes from around the world, including Russian Tagir Khaibulaev, gold medalist of the 2012 London summer Olympic Games.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 26, 2015
By: AP, BELMONT, Michigan

Lexi Thompson birdied six of the first eight holes and wanted more.

“I wanted to make more birdies on the back nine, but it is what it is,” she said.

She did add one more birdie on Friday for a season-best seven-under 64 and a share of the Meijer LPGA Classic lead with Alison Lee and Lizette Salas.

“I hit it in the rough on a few holes on the back nine, where I needed to hit it in the fairway to be able to make birdies, but I’m very happy with my round, don’t get me wrong,” Thompson said.

Thompson, 20, matched Lee and Salas at nine-under 133 at the Blythefield Country Club.

Lee, the 20-year-old former UCLA player in her first season on the tour, had a 66, and playing partner Salas, a former University of Southern California star, shot a 69.     [FULL  STORY]