Taiwan News
Date: 2019/06/16
By:  Central News Agency

Taiwan's women's archery team won its first ever recurve World Championship title Sunday, overcoming long-time rival and heavy favorites South Korea in the final.

The previous best showing by a women's team in the recurve event was a silver medal at the 2007 World Championships. They also won silver at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

"I had faith in them," said team coach Ni Ta-chih (倪大智), "I never doubted that we could win gold at the World Championship."

"We worked very hard for a long time for this match and it was hard. We had to concentrate and exchange information especially on the wind as it was tricky," one of three archers on Taiwan's team, Lei Chien-ying (雷千瑩), was quoted as saying on the World Archery website.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/16
By: Long Po-an and Emerson Lim

Taipei, June 16 (CNA) Taiwanese archer Lei Chien-ying (雷千瑩) followed up her team recurve gold earlier Sunday with a history-making second gold medal in the women's individual recurve event at the 2019 World Archery Championships in the Netherlands on Sunday.

Lei, ranked 22nd in the world but seeded second in the draw after posting the second highest qualification score, pulled off a dramatic comeback against the top seed and world No. 1, Kang Chae Young of South Korea, in the final to win gold.

It was the first ever gold medal won by a Taiwanese in an individual recurve event at a World Championship.

In individual competition, archers compete over five sets of three arrows each, with the winner of a set getting two points, and one point going to each archer for a tie. The first to six points wins.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/14
By: Long Po-an and Chung Yu-chen

Taipei, June 14 (CNA) NBA veteran point guard Jeremy Lin (林書豪), a California native of Taiwanese descent, became the first Asian American to earn an NBA ring Thursday when his team, the Toronto Raptors, took their first NBA title.

Lin, who started his career with the Golden State Warriors in 2010, played for just one minute in the NBA Finals Thursday but still got his championship ring after the Canadian team defeated the Golden State Warriors 114-110 in Game 6.

"Championsssss!" is how he captioned a photo he posted on Instagram.

Lin rose to fame in 2012 when he helped lead the New York Knicks to wins in each of his first seven games, and "Linsanity" was born.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/07
By: Lung Po-an and Ko Lin

Taipei, June 7 (CNA) Taiwan’s badminton players Chou Tien-chen (周天成) and Wang Tzu-

wei (王子維) both succeeded in advancing to the next rounds of the Crown Group Australian Open on Friday, after beating their opponents in the men’s singles quarterfinals.

Chou, ranked fourth in the world, beat Soong Joo Ven of Malaysia 21-14, 21-8, in a 31-minute match played at Quaycentre, Sydney on Friday.

The Taiwanese ace on Saturday continued his unbeaten streak, ousting both Australian Daniel Fan and Malaysian Daniel Liew in two straight games without a loss in the first and second rounds since the tournament began on Tuesday.

It was the first time in his career that Chou went up against Soong, a 24-year old Malaysian currently ranked 72nd in the world.    [FULL  STORY]

MAKING HISTORY: Latisha Chan and Ivan Dodig were the first pair to defend the title since Margaret Court and Ken Fletcher, who won in Paris from 1963 to 1965

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 08, 2019
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter, with AFP, PARIS

Taiwan’s Latisha Chan and Ivan Dodig of Croatia yesterday retained their French Open

mixed doubles title, while Ashleigh Barty and Marketa Vondrousova set up a showdown in the women’s singles final today.

Unseeded Chan and Dodig defeated second seeds and last year’s Australian Open champions Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada and Mate Pavic of Croatia 6-1, 7-6 (7/5) in 1 hour, 19 minutes on Court Simonne-Mathieu at Roland Garros in a rerun of last year’s final.

The reigning champions saved one of the two break points they faced and converted three of five, winning 76 percent of points on their first serve to lift the trophy for the second year running.

The last pair to successfully defend the title were Margaret Court and Ken Fletcher, three-time champions from 1963 to 1965.    [FULL  STORY]

ELDER STATESMAN: Switzerland’s Roger Federer beat compatriot Stan Wawrinka to become the oldest men’s Grand Slam semi-finalist since Jimmy Connors in 1991

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 06, 2019
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter, with AFP, PARIS

Defending champions Latisha Chan of Taiwan and Ivan Dodig of Croatia on Tuesday

advanced to the semi-finals of the mixed doubles at the French Open, while in the men’s singles Roger Federer set up a mouthwatering semi-final against Rafael Nadal.

Unseeded Chan and Dodig took just 65 minutes to see off the challenge of French duo Amandine Hesse and Benjamin Bonzi 6-4, 6-3 on Court 7 at Roland Garros.

The Taiwanese-Croatian duo saved six of seven break points and converted four of six, winning 73 percent of their first-serve points to set up a semi-final against top seeds Nicole Melichar and Bruno Soares.

The American-Brazilian duo defeated seventh seeds Alicja Rosolska of Poland and Nikola Mektic of Croatia 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) on Court 1 in 1 hour, 13 minutes to maintain their record of not having dropped a set at Roland Garros.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 04, 2019
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter, with AFP, PARIS

The Chan sisters on Sunday advanced to the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles at the

French Open, while fellow Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei crashed out of the third round of the women’s doubles.

Unseeded defending champions Latisha Chan and Ivan Dodig knocked out eighth seeds Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and Robert Farah of Colombia 6-2, 7-6 (8/6) in their second-round clash in 1 hour, 18 minutes on Court 7 at Roland Garros.

The Taiwanese-Croatian duo saved three of five break points and converted four of five, winning 56 percent of their points on second service to set up a quarter-final against French duo Amandine Hesse and Benjamin Bonzi, who rallied from a set down to defeat Lyudmyla Kichenok of Ukraine and Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico 3-6, 7-5, 10-4.

Sixth seeds Chan Hao-ching and Oliver Marach defeated Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain and Neal Skupski of Britain 6-4, 7-5 in 1 hour, 20 minutes later on Court 7.
[FULL  STORY]

WINNING GENES: In the first round of the men’s doubles yesterday, Hsieh Cheng-peng and Christopher Rungkat defeated the US’ Austin Krajicek and New Zealand’s Artem Sitak

Taipei Times
Date: May 29, 2019
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter, with AFP, PARIS

Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei on Monday survived a fightback by Viktorija Golubic to advance to

the second round of the women’s singles at the French Open, while younger brother Hsieh Cheng-peng yesterday advanced to the second round of the men’s doubles.

Hsieh Su-wei, seeded 25th, defeated Swiss world No. 79 Golubic 6-4, 3-6, 6-0 in 1 hour, 40 minutes on the clay courts at Roland Garros.

The Taiwanese world No. 25 saved seven of 14 break points and converted nine of 14, hitting 31 winners to advance, despite her 36 unforced errors.

She next faces German world No. 69 Andrea Petkovic, who rallied to defeat Alison Riske of the US 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 in 2 hours, 14 minutes.    [FULL  STORY]