Taiwan News  
Date: 2018/07/15
By:  Central News Agency

Taipei, July 15 (CNA) Taiwan lost to Japan 8-3 Sunday in the final of the

2018 FISU World University Baseball Championship in Chiayi City, the second time it has taken second place in the tournament since it was first held in 2002.

Japan’s title was its first in the tournament.

Taiwanese starter Wei Shou-cheng, who pitched effectively in his previous outing against the Czech Republic on July 8, run into control problems Sunday.

Wei was knocked out of the game in the fourth inning after walking a batter and making a throwing error. In his three innings of work, he gave up four runs on three hits and four walks and took the loss.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/15
By: Tai Ya-chen and Ko Lin

London, July 15 (CNA) Taiwan’s Tseng Chun-hsin (曾俊欣) on Sunday beat

his opponent in the boys’ singles final of the 2018 Wimbledon Championships.

Tseng, 16, who won the French Open title last month, defeated Jack Draper of the United Kingdom 6-1, 6-7 (2/7), 6-4 in a game that lasted two hours and six minutes.

The top-seeded Taiwanese overpowered his opponent in the first set, but the 16-year-old Draper from Sutton was quick to come back to tie the match with a second set win.

Tseng remained dominant after that, closing the third set to win his first boys’ singles title of the London Grand Slam.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/13
By: Wu Chia-hao and William Yen

Taipei, July 13 (CNA) Line Today, a news sharing function under the instant

communications app LINE, announced Friday that it will live stream the 2018 William Jones Cup basketball tournament that kicks off Saturday.

A total of 46 games will be streamed for its users.

Line Today will stream of all the men’s games from July 14-22 and stream two women’s games a day, focused on teams from Taiwan, during the women’s tournament starting on July 25.

According to the list of participants displayed on the tournament’s official website, Taiwan has entered both a white and blue team for the men’s and women’s divisions.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/12
By: Lung Po-an and Ko Lin 

Taipei, July 12 (CNA) Taiwan is set to send a 738-strong team to the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, including 588 athletes, the largest contingent the country has ever sent to the event, a spokesperson for the Sports Administration said Thursday.

At the 2014 games held in Incheon, South Korea, some 400 Taiwanese athletes participated, bagging a total of 51 medals, including 10 gold, 18 silver and 23 bronze.

Wang Shui-wen (王水文), the administration’s acting director, said the goal is to win more gold medals this year.

Members of the sports administration are expected to leave for Jakarta on Aug. 1 to make the preparations before the arrival of the athletes, Wang said.   [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/10
By: Wei Shu and William Yen

Taipei, July 10 (CNA) The British Office Taipei thanked Taiwan in a

Facebook post Monday for the textile technology that provided the English football team with environmentally friendly football jerseys.

The post was made after England advanced into the semifinals of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia, with a 2-0 win over Sweden Saturday.

The world cup kicked off June 14 and runs through July 15.

The office thanked the team’s Taiwanese supporters and expressed hope that the team can make it into the finals while wearing the jerseys researched and developed by Taiwan.    [FULL  STORY]

YET ANOTHER SHOCK: Kiki Bertens stunned Karolina Pliskova, the final top-10 seed, to become the first Dutch quarter-finalist since Michaella Krajicek in 2007

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 10, 2018
By: AFP, LONDON

Dominika Cibulkova yesterday shrugged off a furious line call controversy

to power into the Wimbledon quarter-finals with a 6-4, 6-1 rout of Taiwanese giant-killer Hsieh Su-wei.

Cibulkova was furious when Hsieh successfully persuaded the umpire to replay a point that was initially called in the Slovakian’s favor and would have given her three set points in the opening set.

However, the 29-year-old challenged her anger to crush Hsieh — who had shocked world No. 1 Simona Halep in the third round.

Cibulkova is ranked 33rd in the world and controversially missed out on being seeded at Wimbledon when tournament officials moved up seven-time champion Serena Williams into the seedings, despite the American being ranked outside the top 150 following her maternity leave.
[FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/08
By: Jay Chou and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, July 8 (CNA) World No. 1 badminton player Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎) of Taiwan won

the women’s singles title at the BLIBLI Indonesia Open in Jakarta, beating China’s No. 5 seed Chen Yufei (陳雨菲) 21-23, 21-15, 21-9.

The victory marked Tai’s 29th consecutive career win and her 5th straight title this year.

After losing the first game, Tai got off to a good start in the second but was given a tough fight by her Chinese opponent before she was able to power through to a hard-fought 21-15, 21-9 victory in 53 minutes.

Before clinching the BLIBLI Indonesia Open, the 24-year-old defending champion claimed her third Malaysia Open title with a 22-20, 21-11 win over China’s He Bingjiao (何冰嬌) in just 35 minutes earlier this month to further consolidate her world No. 1 women’s singles ranking.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 09, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA, LONDON

Although dubbed a “giant killer” who beat world No. 1 Simona Halep of Romania at

Wimbledon on Saturday, Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei (謝淑薇) said that she was simply enjoying the game.

The 32-year-old Kaohsiung native, who is 48th in the world rankings, won the match in an uphill battle as the top-seeded Halep led 5-2 in the final set at one point.

However, Hsieh held on, coming from behind to clinch the hard-earned victory.

It is the first time she has made it to the fourth round of Wimbledon, but not the first time she has played underdog in an international competition.

In the Australian Open in January, she defeated 3rd seed Garbine Muguruza and 26th seed Agnieszka Radwanska in straight sets to reach the fourth round, matching her previous best performance at Grand Slam level 10 years earlier.    [FULL  STORY]

Opelika-Auburn News
Date: Jul 7, 2018
By: Scott Fields | Sports Editor 

“Unite, educate and empower” has guided the actions of an organization called More

Than A Game (MTAG) since its foundation in 2010, and the motto is what pushes the baseball outreach program to build another international relationship within the borders of Taiwan.

The organization is headed up locally by MTAG President/COO – and Glenwood head baseball coach – Tim Fanning. He, along with six members of the organization, left for Taiwan Saturdaay morning to partner with organizational ambassador Bryan Woodall and the Fubon Guardians of the Chinese Professional Baseball League in the country.

More Than A Game President/COO Tim Fanning, left, and Coleman Duke pack a few of the 200 shirts that will be donated to kids in Taiwan.

Beyond taking $20,500 worth of equipment to donate to local communities, schools and kids in Taiwan, the MTAG group will host coaching clinics for 11 schools in the week it will be there. The far-reaching arm of MTAG is not an all-together foreign concept after the foundation – which has domestic branches in Phenix City and California – has already established locations in the Dominican Republic, Panama and Colombia, as well as making trips to San Jose, Costa Rica and Cameroon.