Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/14
By: Bill Lin

Taipei, July 14 (CNA) Taiwanese American Joy Burke (包喜樂) has joined the Chinese

Taipei women’s basketball team that is scheduled to participate in the 37th William Jones Cup later this month, the secretary of the Chinese Taipei Basketball Association said Tuesday.

The tournament will be held July 27-31 at the Taipei Gymnasium. Taiwan’s women’s national teams, ROC A and ROC B ranked 4th and 5th, respectively, in last year’s competition.

Burke, who plays in the National Collegiate Athletic Association for the Arizona State Sun Devils, is 1.96 meters tall. The 24-year-old center played 33 games in the 2013-14 season, averaging 7.3 points on 51.4 shooting, 4.8 rebounds and 0.4 assists per game.     [FULL  STORY]

CRUISING THROUGH:The top seeds beat Evgeniya Rodina and Stephanie Vogt 6-3, 7-5 in 1 hour and 12 minutes. In the singles, Mona Barthel ended her slump

Taipei Times
Date:  Jul 15, 2015
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter

Top seeds Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan negotiated the tricky transition from

grass to clay to advance to the quarter-finals of the doubles at the Swedish Open in Bastad on Monday.

The Taiwanese sisters, who traveled to Sweden having both participated at Wimbledon, defeated Evgeniya Rodina of Russia and Stephanie Vogt of Liechtenstein 6-3, 7-5 in the first round of the doubles in 1 hour, 12 minutes.

The No. 1 seeds saved four of six break points and converted four of eight, winning 66 of the 117 points contested on the Swedish clay courts.

In the quarter-finals, the Taiwanese duo face either Tatjana Maria of Germany and Olga Savchuk of Ukraine or Swedish wild-cards Cornelia Lister and Malin Ulvefeldt, who are due to play their first-round match today.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan Nerws
Date: 2015-07-12
By: By Lee Hsin-Yin, Central News Agency

Taiwan shared baseball gold Saturday with its Japanese rival in the 2015 Summer

Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea after the final was called off due to rain.

The game, which was scheduled to start at 6 p.m. (local time), was postponed until nearly 8:15 p.m. due to the rain, when the organizers finally had to announce that the match was canceled, leading to the two teams’ sharing the gold medal.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/13
By: Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, July 13 (CNA) Pan Cheng-tsung from Taiwan shot a 5-under 66 on Sunday to

win PGA Tour Canada’s Players Cup for his first professional victory since turning pro last month.

The 23-year-old was 11-under-par on the weekend to score a two-shot win over Sweden’s Robert Karlsson and earned the top prize of 31,500 Canadian dollars, according to a report by Canadian newspaper Winnipeg Sun. He carded a four-day total of 15-under 269.

“This is something I’ve always dreamed of. I didn’t expect it so soon, but I guess it happened and it’s awesome. I’m beyond happiness,” Pan said after producing seven birdies and two bogeys at the par-71 Pine Ridge Golf Course in Winnipeg.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/13
By: Lee Yu-cheng and Bill Lin

Taipei, July 13 (CNA) Taiwan ranked 10th on the medal table as of Monday at the

Gwangju Universiade out of a total of 64 countries participating in South Korea, with six gold medals, twelve silver, and eighteen bronze.

Taekwondo competitors Chuang Chia-chia (莊佳佳), Huang Kuan-chi (黃冠錡), Huang Yun-wen (黃韻文), and Lin Yi-ching (林宜青) lost to China 7-9 and had to settle for sharing the bronze medal with the Korean women based their score ranking in team kyorugi, the new Taekwondo category at the Universiade.

The Chinese team clinched the gold medal of this event and the Russian obtained the silver medal.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date:  Jul 14, 2015
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

Home runs helped the Chinatrust Brothers complete a three-game sweep of the

Uni-President Lions and claim first-place in Taiwan’s Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) second-half table.

In the weekend’s other match, the visiting Lamigo Monkeys took two out of three in the series against the EDA Rhinos at Kaohsiung’s Cheng Ching Lake Baseball Stadium. Lamigo infielder Kuo Yen-wen saw his record hitting streak stopped at the series opener on Friday when he went zero-for-four on the night.

A new CPBL record of hitting home runs in 11 consecutive games was set by the Brothers, who will look to extend the streak in contests this week.

In the series finale against the Lions in Taichung on Sunday night, the Brothers’ left-handed hitters did most of the damage in their victory.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/12
By: Y. C. Lee and Flor Wang

Gwangju, South Korea, July 12 (CNA) Kelly Chang (張凱貞) of Taiwan won the gold medal in the women’s singles tennis on Sunday at the 2015 Universiade, beating Luksika Kumkhum of Thailand in the final by two straight sets, 6-1 and 6-2.

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/12
By: Y.C. Lee, Flor Wang and S.C. Chang

Gwangju, South Korea, July 12 (CNA) Kelly Chang (張凱貞) of Taiwan won the gold medal in the tennis women’s singles Sunday at the 2015 Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea, beating Luksika Kumkhum of Thailand in two straight sets 6-1, 6-2.

Chang, ranked 201st in the world, trounced the 125th-ranked Kumkhum in less than an hour at the Yeomju Indoor Tennis Court.

Chang’s coach, Ho Kuo-lung (何國龍) said he would give her a 100-point score for “suppressing her rival throughout the game, without relenting for a moment.”

Chang herself was a bit more reserved in rating her victory, attributing it in part to playing on an indoor court because of rain.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/12
By: Lee Yu-cheng and S.C. Chang

Taipei, July 12 (CNA) Taiwan’s table tennis players Chiang Hung-chieh and (江宏傑)

Huang Sheng-sheng (黃聖盛) pulled off a 3-2 win over their Japanese counterparts to win men’s doubles gold medal at the 2015 University Games in Guangju, South Korea Sunday.

The Taiwanese beat the Japanese duo of Masataka Morizono and Yuya Oshima 4-11, 11-5, 12-10, 11-8 and 11-7 to defend Chinese Taipei’s men’s doubles title earned two years ago. Sunday’s win also marked Taiwan’s third gold in this event at the Universiade.

In women’s doubles, Taiwanese pair Lee Yi-chen (李依真) and Cheng Yi-ching (鄭怡靜) had to settle for silver after losing to China’s Che Xiaoxi (車曉曦) and Jiang Yue (江越) 2-4.     [FULL  STORY]