Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/04/30
By: Lee Yu-cheng and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, April 30 (CNA) Taiwan’s Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎) climbed to a career-high world ranking of No.4 in women’s singles in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings after finishing third at the Badminton Asia Championships 2015 in Wuhan, China last week.

Tai reached the quarterfinals for the third consecutive year during the six-day Badminton Asia Championships 2015 which started April 21.

Once in the quarterfinals, the then world No. 5 badminton player Tai knocked out Saina Nehwal, the world No.1 of India 16-21, 21-13, 21-18, and advanced to the semifinals, her best showing ever at the continental championship.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: May 01, 2015
By Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter, with AP, PRAGUE

Taiwan’s Chuang Chia-jung and Chan Chin-wei crashed out of the doubles at

the Prague Open on a busy day on Wednesday after rain disrupted the schedule on Tuesday.

The day started well for fourth seeds Chuang and Liang Chen of China when they defeated Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia and Petra Martic of Croatia 7-5, 6-4 in their first-round match.

The cross-strait duo saved six of nine break-point chances and converted five of six to complete the victory in 1 hour, 22 minutes.

Chan and her partner, Elena Bogdan of Romania, did not fare so well in their first-round clash, with second-seeded Ukrainian twin sisters Lyudmyla and Nadiia Kichenok cruising to a 6-4, 6-2 victory.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-04-27
By: CNA

Taiwanese tennis player Hsieh Su-wei, who ended a long slump in singles with

a good showing in early March, won the singles title at a lower tier ITF event in Shenzhen on Sunday.

Hsieh, seeded third in the US$25,000 tournament, defeated unseeded Yang Zhaoxuan of China 6-2, 6-2 in Sunday’s final after having whipped top-seeded Duan Yingying 6-1, 6-2 in the semifinals a day earlier.

The win will earn Hsieh 50 ranking points, which should help her singles ranking improve from its current 155th in the world to somewhere inside the top 140.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/04/26
By: Lee Chin-wei and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, April 26 (CNA) Taiwanese tennis player Hsieh Su-wei (謝淑薇), who

ended a long slump in singles with a good showing in early March, won the singles title at a lower tier ITF event in Shenzhen on Sunday.

Hsieh, seeded third in the US$25,000 tournament, defeated unseeded Yang Zhaoxuan (楊釗煊) of China 6-2, 6-2 in Sunday’s final after having whipped top-seeded Duan Yingying 6-1, 6-2 in the semifinals a day earlier.

The win will earn Hsieh 50 ranking points, which should help her singles ranking improve from its current 155th in the world to somewhere inside the top 140.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/04/26
By: Chiang Yuan-chen and Jeffrey Wu

Taipei, April 26 (CNA) A team from Taiwan defeated its Korean opponent 13-0 on Sunday to win the under-18 inline hockey junior title at the 2015 Namwon Korea Open.

The Taiwanese team won a prize of 600,000 South Korean won (US$540) for the victory, according to the Korea Roller Sports Federation, one of the competition’s organizers.

Entering its eighth year, the Namwon Korea Open is being held from Saturday to May 1, with more than 800 competitors from 23 countries and regions participating in three major events — speed skating, freestyle skating and inline hockey.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/04/25
By: Jay Chen and Y.F. Low

Taipei, April 25 (CNA) A team from Taiwan has won a gold medal at the 2015

World Cheerleading Championships, the first by a Taiwanese group in a major international cheerleading tournament.

The team of around 20 young men and women won the Coed Premier event of the championships at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida on Thursday, beating teams from the United States, Finland and seven other countries.

Taiwanese teams also finished seventh in the Freestyle Pom Doubles event, 12th in the Hip Hop Doubles event, 11th in the Team Cheer Freestyle Pom event and ninth in the Team Cheer Hip Hop event.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Apr 26, 2015
By: Paul Huang  /  Contributing reporter

Kuo Yen-wen’s three-run homer off starter Cheng Chi-hung in the top of the first

gave the Lamigo Monkeys a quick 3-0 lead as the Primates went on to defeat the Chinatrust Brothers 6-4 at the Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium last night for their third straight win.

It was the second multi-run homer that the Lamigo slugger has registered this month, giving him 23 RBIs just 24 games into the season.

“[Cheng] just hung the curve ball too high, so I was able to put good wood on the ball,” Kuo said after the game.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/04/25
By: Lee Yu-cheng and Scully Hsiao

Taipei, April 25 (CNA) Taiwanese badminton ace Tai Tzu-ying fell in her women’s singles semifinal showdown at the Badminton Asia Championships 2015 in Wuhan on Saturday, but it was still her best showing ever at the continental championship.

A day after upsetting second-seeded Saina Nehwal of India 16-21, 21-13, 21-18 in the quarterfinals, the fifth-seed Tai fell to seventh-seeded Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand 20-22, 21-9, 21-12 in just under an hour.

Tai was only the second Taiwanese woman to have reached the semifinals, following Cheng Shao-chieh in 2011. Tai’s previous best placing at the championships were quarterfinal finishes in 2013 and 2014.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Apr 26, 2015
By: Grant Dexter and Ian Kuo  /  Staff reporters

The Clouded Leopards staged a comeback from 0-3 down to snare the Taipei

Ice Hockey League championship title at the Iceland Arena on Friday night.

They entered Game 3 coming off a 7-2 thrashing to the Black Bears in the previous matchup and failed in the early stages to match anything near their dominance in the 7-3 hiding they handed out in Game 1.

Some messy Leopards defending handed the Bears a couple of chances, although the first period saw no goals scored. The Leopards had chances with a couple of goal-mouth scrambles, but the best shot was probably from the Bears’ David Merrifield, who had a long-range shot tipped away by Leopards goaltender Alex Sjostedt.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/04/23
By: S. C. Chang and Maubo Chang

Taipei, April 23 (CNA) Taiwan’s Wu Ching-kuo, an executive member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and president of the International Boxing Association (AIBA), was elected vice president of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) in Sochi, Russia Wednesday.

Wu received votes from all 28 of ASOIF’s member federations, whose delegates re-elected Patrick Baumann as president, and Leandro Negre, president of the International Hockey Federation; and Jose Perurena, president of the International Canoe Federation, as the two new council members.     [FULL  STORY]