Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/02/24
By: Kuan-lin Liu and Lee Chin-wei
Taipei, Feb. 24 (CNA) A Taiwanese women’s table tennis team suffered a crushing defeat
Chen Szu-yu (陳思羽)/ CNA file photo
in the quarterfinals of the 2018 Team World Cup in London on Friday, during which they faced off against the North Korean women’s team.
In a best-of-five-match encounter, the team from Taiwan proceeded to lose three matches in a row, the exact opposite of how they performed the day before in the competition against Australia that won them a spot in the quarterfinals.
Taiwan’s Chen Szu-yu (陳思羽), Cheng Hsien-tzu (鄭先知) and Cheng I-ching (鄭怡靜) played for the team in a doubles and two singles matches.
Chen and Cheng Hsien-tzu kicked off the doubles match, playing against North Korea’s Kim Nam-hae and Cha Hyo-sim. [FULL STORY]