DOUBLE TROUBLE:Chan Hao-ching and Anabel Medina Garrigues beat Klemenschits and Lottner in Nuremberg, while Chuang Chia-jung and Liang Chen won in Strasbourg

Taipei Times
Date: May 21, 2015
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AP, NUREMBERG, Germany

Second seeds Chan Hao-ching and Anabel Medina Garrigues eased into the semi-finals of the doubles at the Nuremberg Versicherungscup yesterday, defeating Sandra Klemenschits of Austria and Antonia Lottner of Germany 6-4, 6-1.

The Taiwanese-Spanish duo got off to a flying start by breaking their opponents in the opening game, but were pegged back when Klemenschits and Lottner broke back in the fourth to make it 2-2.

However, Chan and Medina Garrigues broke straight back in the fifth game and then held their serve to win the first set 6-4 in 36 minutes.

The second seeds then broke again in the first and fifth games of the second set, claiming the victory by converting their second match point after 1 hour, 3 minutes on court.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/05/20
By: Lee Chin-wei and Ted Chen

Taipei, May 20 (CNA) Taiwan’s female lightweight boxer Lin Ya-xuan (林亞萱)

defeated Veronika Villas of Hungary on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Women’s Junior and Youth World Boxing Championships in New Taipei.

Lin, who is seen as one of Taiwan’s best boxers in the championships, won a unanimous 3-0 decision in a match that she dominated from the opening bell.

Throughout the three-round match, Lin proved to be the aggressor, stalking Villas and pinning her against the ropes. Lin threw several effective punches and by the final round, Villas appeared fatigued. The judges unanimously awarded the match to Lin, who is a student at Taipei Municipal YuCheng High School.     [FULL  STORY]

I am in dna of India
Date: 16 May 2015
By: Vaishali Balajiwale | Edited by: Disha Shetty    

Proving her game and defeating the Indian girls, Taiwan’s Ching Wen Shu lifted

the ITF tournament winner’s title and bagging the USD 10,000 prize money in the finals of the circuit games held Nashik on Saturday.

In one of the most thrilling match at the Nashik circuit so far, Ching Wen Shu defeated India’s Vaishanavi Peddireddy 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5).

Continuing her winning streak, Ching Wen Shu opened with an aggressive game. Even as the match proceeded neck-to-neck till four points, Shu took the first set 6-4 with her base line strokes. However Vaishnavi too was not ready to concede easily. She came back stronger in the second set. Displaying a good quality game and combining it with a powerful back hand she clinched the second set 4-6.     [FULL  STORY]

New Ross Standard
Date: 16/05/2015
By: David Looby

New Ross boxer Joanne Richards jetted out for Taiwan on Monday to compete

in the ‘Junior Olympics’ of women’s boxing , the AIBA World Women’s Youth and Junior Championships.

Joanne, 16, who is originally from Clonroche and is now living in Templeudigan, is part of a 13-strong Irish squad who will be competing against the elite of women boxers from across the world.

A St Michael’s Boxing Club, New Ross, member for many years, Joanne has made history by being the first female Wexford boxer to compete at the games.

Her trainer, Stan Blanche, who is joining her at the games in Taipei, which begin today, said: ‘It’s a massive competition. It’s a junior Olympics with female boxers from 52 countries taking part. Joanne is in good form. Her weight is perfect and she is as sharp as ever.’     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/05/16
By: Huang Li-yun and Y.F. Low

Taipei, May 16 (CNA) The Taipei City government is recruiting 30,000

volunteers to serve at the 2017 Summer Universiade in the city, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said Saturday.

The sports event will need the support of many volunteers because it is likely to draw 10,000 athletes from different countries, many of whom may not speak English, Ko said at a news conference.

The volunteers must be at least 18 years of age, and some will be expected to have foreign language skills, he said.

They will be assigned to the various competition venues and some will be required to help maintain the traffic arrangements, the mayor said.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: May 17, 2015
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

In the opening game of Taiwan’s annual Little League Championship

tournament, Tainan broke a deadlock to score five late runs to defeat Yilan County 13-8 yesterday.

Tainan Mayor William Lai attended the game at Taipei’s Hsinsheng Park Baseball Field. Lai brought many supporters from the Tainan area to cheer on the team at the week-long tournament known as the Herbalife Cup, which is for under-12 baseball players from top elementary-school teams chosen to represent their county or city.

This year’s Herbalife Cup series is also to decide coaches for the national squad to compete in the World Baseball Softball Conference (WBSC) U-12 Baseball World Cup Championship, which Tainan is hosting in July.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/05/16
By: Christie Chen

New Taipei Mayor Eric Chu (left) greets AIBA President Wu Ching-kuo at the

opening of AIBA boxing tournaments.

Taipei, May 16 (CNA) The biennial International Boxing Association (AIBA) Women’s Junior and Youth World Boxing Championships opened Saturday in New Taipei City, marking the first time that an international boxing championship is being held in Taiwan.

“This is the first time Taiwan has been selected to host the boxing world championships. We are delighted to host this event and bring the excitement of world-class boxing competition to sport enthusiasts in Taiwan,” Ho Jow-fei (何卓飛), director-general of Taiwan’s Sports Administration, said at the opening ceremony.

AIBA President Wu Ching-kuo (吳經國), who also attended the opening, said boxing is now one of the top Olympic sports thanks to the efforts of AIBA members.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: May 17, 2015
By: Paul Huang  /  Contributing reporter

Chan Chih-yao’s solo blast off Chen Hung-wen with two outs in the top of the

ninth broke a 1-all tie for the Lamigo Monkeys as they held on to defeat the Chinatrust Brothers 2-1 at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium last night to even the weekend series at one win apiece.

It was only the second long ball that the speedy outfielder has driven out of the ball park, but it could not have come at a better time, as the visitors had missed several golden scoring opportunities in the previous innings to allow the Brothers in the game.

“I guessed a fastball all the way and that was what [Chen] threw me,” Chan said after the game.

His towering shot had no trouble clearing the left-center wall to put his club ahead.     [FULL  STORY]