Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, May 21, 2003
Chinese Players Advance to 2nd Round of Mixed Doubles
China's seven pairs of mixed doubles players have made it through the first round at the 47th World Table Tennis Championships in Paris Tuesday. They only lost three games in the seven matches. World champions Ma Lin and Wang Nan had a tough fight, but finally pulled it off.
China's seven pairs of mixed doubles players have made it through the first round at the 47th World Table Tennis Championships in Paris Tuesday. They only lost three games in the seven matches. World champions Ma Lin and Wang Nan had a tough fight, but finally pulled it off.
The scores of the Chinese pairs were: Ma Lin/Wang Nan 4-0 (11-8,11-9,11-9,11-9) vs SAKAMOTO Ryusuke /HIRANO Sayaka (Japan) Wang Hao/Li Nan 4-0 (11-6,11-5,11-6,11-3) vs KARAKASEVIC Aleksandar / GOLIC Biljana (Yugoslavia) Wang Liqin/Li Jia 4-0 (11-7,11-7,11-6,11-3) vs TORRES Daniel / PRADES Alba (Spain) Liu Guozheng/Bai Yang 4-0 (11-6,11-3,11-1,11-4) vs MILICEVIC Srdan/ IVELJIC Dragana (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Yan Sen/Zhang Yining 4-1 (6-11,11-6,11-4,11-5,11-5) vs JIN Ju/ WU Xue(Dominican Republic) Hou Yingchao/Fan Ying 4-2 (4-11,11-9,5-11,11-9,11-5,11-6) vs STEGER Bastian/ STUMPER Laura (Germany) Qin Zhijian/Niu Jianfeng 4-0 (11-7,11-5,11-9,11-7) vs GORAK Daniel / MOLIK Patricja (Poland)