Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/27
By: Lung Po-an and Ko Lin

Taipei, Jan. 27 (CNA) Rising Taiwanese tennis star Liang En-shuo (梁恩碩) cleaned up

at the Australian Open on Saturday, winning both the junior girls’ singles and doubles events.

Liang started her day by winning Taiwan’s first ever junior girls’ singles title at the opening Grand Slam of the year by beating Clara Burel of France 6-3, 6-4.

The 17-year-old then partnered with Wang Xinyu (王欣瑜) of China to beat Violet Apisah of Papua New Guinea and Lulu Sun of Switzerland 7-6 (4), 4-6, (10-5) in a match that lasted roughly 84 minutes.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Tims
Date: Jan 28, 2018
By: CNA, with staff writer

Taiwan’s Chou Tien-chen yesterday failed to reach the men’s singles finals at the 2018

Indonesia Masters after losing to Anthony Ginting of Indonesia.

The world No. 16 Ginting, who was coming off a quarter-final showing in Malaysia last week and had upset world No. 4 Chen Long of China two weeks in a row, topped the world No. 7 Chou 21-16, 13-21, 21-12 in 65 minutes.

The match was decided by big momentum swings.

In the opening game, Chou sped out to a 10-6 lead, but Ginting then ran off seven straight points and maintained a small lead the rest of the game, clinching it by winning the final three points.

Chou took over the second game with a 9-2 run midway through the game that put him up by 10 points, a lead Ginting narrowed slightly, but could not overcome.
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It’s been a long wait.

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/01/26
By: Mabel Neo, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI(Taiwan News)- Taiwanese weightlifters Chen Wei-ling(陳葦綾) and Lu Ying-

chi(盧映錡) is awarded the women’s 48kg category gold medal and women’s 63-kilogram category silver medal for the 2008 Beijing Olympics today at Taipei’s Caesar Park Hotel respectively.

They received the medals from Wu Ching-kuo, a Taiwanese International Olympic Committee member.

Chen has initially been the bronze medalist in the women’s 48-kilogram class. However, the original gold medalist Chen Xie-xia from China was stripped of the gold medal after being tested positive for GHRP-2, which stimulates the production of growth hormone. Turkish weightlifter Sibel Özkan lost her appeal against the disqualification of her silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, after testing positive for the steroid stanozolol.

Lu was originally the bronze medallist in the women’s 63-kilogram category. However, the silver medalist Irina Nekrassova from Kazakh was also tested for using banned drugs, thus disqualifying her from her Olympic silver medal. Lu was then upgraded to a silver medal.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/26
By: Jay Chou and Elizabeth Hsu

Jakarta, Jan. 26 (CNA) Taiwanese badminton players Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎) and Chou

Tien-chen (周天成) advanced respectively to the women’s and men’s singles semifinals of the 2018 Indonesia Masters on Friday.

The world’s top-ranked Tai knocked out fifth seed Sung Ji Hyun of South Korea 21-11, 21-8 in just 29 minutes, setting up a battle with eighth seed He Bingjiao of China.

Friday’s performance was Tai’s eighth consecutive win over Sung dating back to December 2016, and improved her lifetime mark against the South Korean to 17-9.

Tai opened up a 10-4 lead in the first game, and Sung would never get closer than four points the rest of the way. The second game was even more one-sided, with Tai running off 13 straight points to take a 16-3 lead before closing out the match.   [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/25
By: Kuan-lin Liu and Jay Chou

Jakarta, Jan. 25 (CNA) Taiwanese badminton player Wang Tzu-wei (王子維) lost to

longtime opponent Son Wan-ho of South Korea in a close three-set match at the 2018 Indonesia Masters Thursday.

The defeat means he has bid farewell to a slot in the quarterfinals of the competition taking place in Jakarta.

Wang, who is ranked No. 11 in the world in men’s singles, came up against Son, ranked No. 5, and met his loss with a score of 17-21, 21-11, 19-21.

In the first game, the South Korean maintained a clear lead, and scored five consecutive points after 13 before finishing the set with a clear victory.
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Taiwanese skater Amy Lin achieved 51.14 points in the ladies short program at the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2018 in Taipei on Thursday and ranked No. 15 in the category

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/01/25
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—Taiwanese skater Amy Lin achieved 51.14 points in the Ladies

Short Program at the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2018 in Taipei on Thursday and ranked No. 15 in the category. She said she was satisfied with her performance but wished to do better in the Free Skating and set a new personal best in the end.

The ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships took place at the Taipei Arena, and the competitions on the first day include the Short Dance, Pairs Short Program and Ladies Short Program.

The championships are the last major figure skating competitions before the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games and attracted nearly 20 winter Olympic athletes (teams) to participate.

Lin said she was happy with her first Triple Lutz jump as it’s the motion that she wanted to execute well the most.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/25
By: Kuan-lin Liu and Jay Chou

Jakarta, Jan. 25 (CNA) Taiwanese badminton player Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎) cruised

through to the quarterfinals of the 2018 Indonesia Masters on Thursday with an easy win over her compatriot Lee Chia-hsin (李佳馨).

Tsai, the world’s No. 1 in women’s singles, won the match in 22 minutes, finishing 21-14, 21-13.

The two players seemed equally matched at the start, with Tai leading by only a couple of points and Lee playing to a 4-4 tie.

However, Tai soon picked up her game and maintained the lead all the way to the end of the first set.

In the second set, Tai really showed off her skills, scoring five straight points and making it impossible for Lee to catch up.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Jan 25, 2018
By: AFP, TAIPEI

North Korean figure skaters Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik were greeted by an

enthusiastic crowd who threw them toys and flowers yesterday at the Four Continents championships in Taipei ahead of their highly anticipated Olympic bid.

Fans clapped and shouted at the end of their performance of Jeff Beck’s rendition of The Beatles’ A Day in the Life, with one spectator flying a South Korean flag.

Although their routine ranked them first initially in the pairs short program and gave them a personal record of 65.25 points, they were eventually edged out of the top three and ended fourth.

US duo Ashley Cain and Timothy Leduc placed first with 66.76 points, Australians Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya and Harley Windsor took second with 66.45, and Tarah Kayne and Danny O’Shea, also of the US, came third with 65.74.    [FULL  STORY]

‘THE PROFESSOR’: South Korea’s Chung Hyeon became the first from his nation to ever reach a Grand Slam semi-final and is the lowest-ranked semi-finalist since 2004

Taipei Times
Date: Jan 25, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA and AFP, MELBOURNE

Hsieh Su-wei’s run at the Australian Open that saw her plow through a world No. 3,

push a former Open champion to the brink and reignite a once-lethal doubles partnership has come to an end.

The Taiwanese veteran and Peng Shuai of China yesterday were ousted from the women’s doubles, falling quickly in the semi-finals to fifth seeds Timea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic of France 6-4, 6-2 in 1 hour, 20 minutes.

Babos and Mladenovic hit 23 winners to their opponents’ four and won 66 percent of their first serves to Hsieh and Peng’s 51 percent.

However, eighth seeds Hsieh and Peng had their chances.

After falling behind 4-1 in the first set, the duo had a chance to pull a game back, but squandered two break points.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan tennis star Hsieh Su-wei became the first Taiwanese player to have acquired the permanent membership at each of all four Grand Slam venues on Tuesday

Taiwan News  
Date: 2018/01/23
By:  Taiwan News

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—Taiwan tennis star Hsieh Su-wei became the first Taiwanese

player to have acquired the permanent membership at each of all four Grand Slam venues after she and Peng Shuai beat Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova in women’s doubles at the Australian Open to advance into the semifinals on Tuesday.

The four permanent memberships mean that Hsieh will not have to pay for any tickets to watch all Grand Slam events.

To acquire the permanent membership at a Grand Slam venue, a player must be a quarterfinalist in the singles, a semifinalist in the doubles and a finalist in the mixed doubles at a Grand Slam event.

With regards to Taiwanese players who have obtained memberships of Grand Slam venues, Chan Yung-jen is second only to Hsieh with three except for Wimbledon.

Lu Yen-hsun became a permanent member of Wimbledon when he advanced into Wimbledon men’s quarterfinals in 2010.     [FULL  STORY]