Taipei Times
Date:May 09, 2019
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter, with AFP, MADRID

Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei on Tuesday advanced to the quarter-finals of the women’s

doubles at the Mutua Madrid Open, while Roger Federer shook off a brief bout of pre-match jitters as he returned to clay after a three-year absence to beat Richard Gasquet in the second round of the men’s singles.

Fifth seeds Hsieh and Barbora Strycova defeated Jennifer Brady of the US and Jessica Moore of Australia 6-3, 7-6 (7/2) in 1 hour, 25 minutes at La Caja Magica in the Spanish capital.

The Taiwanese-Czech duo saved six of eight break points and converted four of eight, winning 42 percent of their points on return to advance to a quarter-final against the winners of yesterday’s second-round clash that pitted Spanish duo Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez and Sara Sorribes Tormo against third seeds Samantha Stosur of Australia and Zhang Shuai of China.

In the men’s singles, 20-time Grand Slam champion Federer needed just 52 minutes to brush Gasquet aside 6-2, 6-3, but confessed he had to control his emotions during afternoon match strategy sessions with his team.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: May 09, 2019.
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter, with AFP, MADRID

Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei on Tuesday advanced to the quarter-finals of the women’s

doubles at the Mutua Madrid Open, while Roger Federer shook off a brief bout of pre-match jitters as he returned to clay after a three-year absence to beat Richard Gasquet in the second round of the men’s singles.

Fifth seeds Hsieh and Barbora Strycova defeated Jennifer Brady of the US and Jessica Moore of Australia 6-3, 7-6 (7/2) in 1 hour, 25 minutes at La Caja Magica in the Spanish capital.

The Taiwanese-Czech duo saved six of eight break points and converted four of eight, winning 42 percent of their points on return to advance to a quarter-final against the winners of yesterday’s second-round clash that pitted Spanish duo Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez and Sara Sorribes Tormo against third seeds Samantha Stosur of Australia and Zhang Shuai of China.

In the men’s singles, 20-time Grand Slam champion Federer needed just 52 minutes to brush Gasquet aside 6-2, 6-3, but confessed he had to control his emotions during afternoon match strategy sessions with his team.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: May 08, 2019
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter, with AFP, MADRID

Hsieh Su-wei on Monday advanced to the second round of the women’s doubles at the

Madrid Open, but fellow Taiwanese the Chan sisters fell to an upset loss at La Caga Magica in the Spanish capital.

Fifth seeds Hsieh and Barbora Strycova rallied from a set down to defeat Andreea Mitu of Romania and Alexandra Panova of Russia 3-6, 6-4, 10-3 in 1 hour, 12 minutes.

The Taiwanese-Czech duo failed to save any of the three break points they faced, but converted both break points they created, winning 57 percent of points on their second serve to advance to a second-round clash against Jennifer Brady of the US and Jessica Moore of Australia, who defeated Desirae Krawczyk of the US and Makoto Ninomiya of Japan 7-5, 6-2.

Seventh seeds Chan Hao-ching and Latisha Chan fell to a shock 7-6 (7/4), 7-5 defeat to wild-card entry Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia and Vera Zvonareva of Russia in 1 hour, 36 minutes.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/30
By: Lung Po-an and William Yen

Taipei, April 30 (CNA) Taiwanese Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎) has been listed at the top of the

Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings in the women’s singles category for a record 125 weeks, the latest list showed Tuesday.

Tai has now made history, breaking the record held by Chinese female shuttler Li Xuerui, who was No. 1 in the BWF’s world rankings for 124 weeks.

Earlier this month, Tai won her first title of the season at the Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur, defending the championship for the third consecutive year.

Following her win in Malaysia, she clinched the women’s singles title at the 2019 Singapore Open April 9-14.    [FULL  STORY]

Lin Jui-an won the title of the fastest 13/14-year-old female stacker

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/04/29
By: Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — 1.660 seconds. That’s how fast Junior high school student Lin Jui-an (林芮安) beat other competitors at the World Sport Stacking Championship this year.

13-year-old Lin competed Sunday (April 28) in Mollina, Spain, and won the Female Individual 3-3-3 championship in 13-14 age division at this year’s World Sport Stacking Championships, according to Liberty Times.

According to the WSSA rule book, the 3-3-3 stack requires competitors to “up stack” and “down stack” the cups from left to right or right to left in three stacks made up of three cups in each stack.

Lin only took 1.660 seconds to complete the routine and set herself apart from the runner-up, Sae Ryung Park from South Korea, making her the fastest in the division this year.
[FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/29
By: Tai Ya-chen and William Yen

London, April 28 (CNA) Hung Kuo-chan (洪國展) became the first visually impaired runner from Taiwan to complete in the world-renowned London Marathon on Sunday.

It was Hung’s second time participating in a major international marathon following his run at the Boston Marathon in April last year.

The 39-year-old Hung gained entry to compete in the marathon via its “Charity Entry,” which entailed him making a donation of 2,000 pounds (US$2,589) to the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) that he raised by giving speeches and organizing fundraisers.

According to the London Marathon webpage, most major charities have a set number of entry places for the marathon, which they allocate to runners on the basis that they will raise an agreed amount of money for the charity.    [FULL  STORY]