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Beat Chen Qi in Mens Singles |
24-2-2006 |
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Ma
Lin Won Against Chen Qi in the Final match of
Men's Singles championship Salwa Cup.
It was a very difficult Match for both the players. Both
the players played really well. MA
Lin was successful at the
Kuwait International Open Salwa Cup and it had been no
easy path to the final
, the score was
2-4: 9-11, 6-11, 8-11,
11-9,11-8, 8-11 |
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Hong Kong’s Jiang Huajun
Won against China’s Guo Yue
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24-2-2006 |
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Jiang Huajun Won against Guo Yue
in the Final match of Women’s Single at the Kuwait
International Open Salwa Cup. The Match was very
interesting and Jiang Huajun was
able to pass the great wall of china
and win this championship. The score was
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4-2:
11-9, 11-6, 9-11, 11-13,11-7, 11-3, |
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Repeat Success For Chinese Pair |
24-2-2006 |
The
last time the two pairs met, it was on the biggest stage
of all, the final of the Men’s Doubles event at the
Olympic Games in Athens in 2004; on that occasion Chen
Qi and Ma Lin beat Ko Lai Chak and Li Ching in six
games. They met again on Friday 24th February 2006 and
the end result was the same, only this time victory was
secured without the loss of a single game.
Chen Qi and Ma Lin won 11-8, 12-10, 11-4, 11-7.
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Olympic
& World Champions In Control |
24-2-2006 |
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Wang
Nan and Zhang Yining won their second Women’s Doubles
title of 2006 on the ITTF Pro Tour when the beat the
Hong Kong pairing of Lau Sui Fei and Lin Ling in the
final at the Kuwait International Open Salwa Cup on
Friday 24th February 2006.
Wang Nan and Zhang Yining won 11-8, 11-1, 11-5, 11-5
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Doubles Partners Reach Final
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24-2-2006 |
Twenty-one year old Chen Qi of China reached his third
Men’s Singles final of the year on the ITTF Pro Tour
when he beat Austria’s Chen Weixing in the semi-finals
of the Kuwait International Open Salwa Cup on Friday
24th February 2006.
He accounted for the Austrian 11-3, 10-12, 11-7, 11-4,
11-9. In the final he will play his compatriot Ma Lin
who beat Hong Kong’s Li Ching 11-7, 11-7, 11-9, 11-1 |
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Success Continues For Jiang Huajun |
24-2-2006 |
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Hong Kong’s Jiang Huajun and China’s Guo Yue will
contest the Women’s Singles final at the Kuwait
International Open Salwa Cup following the
semi-finals played on the morning of Friday 24th
February 2006.
At the penultimate stage Jiang Huajun overcame Guo
Yan of China 7-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-5, 11-5, 12-10,
11-3 whilst Guo Yue defeated Japan’s Sayaka Hirano
11-4, 11-7, 11-5, 3-11, 11-7. |
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Heroic Defence Halts World Champion |
24-2-2006 |
Late in the morning of Thursday 23rd February 2006,
the Women’s Singles reigning World Champion exited
proceedings; six hours later her male counterpart,
Wang Liqin, went the same way.
In the quarter-finals of the Men’s Singles event at
the Kuwait International Open Salwa Cup, the Chinese
star was beaten in seven games. He lost to Austria’s
Chen Weixing.
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Under 21 Titles For Germany & Hong Kong |
24-2-2006 |
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Germany’s Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Hong Kong’s Yu Kwok
See won the first titles to be decided at the Kuwait
International Open Salwa Cup when they clinched the
respective Under 21 Men’s Singles and Under 21
Women’s Singles crowns on Thursday 23rd February
2006.
In the final of the Under 21 Men’s Singles event
Dimitrij Ovtcharov beat Sweden’s Johan Axelqvist
whilst in the Under 21 Women’s Singles the runner up
was Austria’s Li Qiangbing.
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Seeds Depart |
23-2-2006 |
Top seeds in the Women’s Doubles
event at the Kuwait
International Open Salwa Cup,
Hong Kong’s Tie Yana and Zhang
Rui, lost at the quarter-final
stage on Thursday 23rd February
2006; they were beaten by the
Chinese duo of Cao Zhen and Guo
Yan. Cao Zhen and Guo Yan won
11-9, 7-11. 8-11, 11-5, 11-7,
11-3
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Early Exit For Olympic & World
Champion
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23-2-2006 |
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Twenty-one year old Jiang Huajun
caused one of the year’s major
shocks when on the morning of
Thursday 23rd February 2006, at
the Kuwait International Open,
she beat the reigning Olympic
and World champion, Zhang Yining
in the second round of the
Women’s Singles event.
Jiang Huajun won 11-4, 11-6,
14-12, 9-11, 7-11, 11-4.
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Hong Kong Teenager Maintains Form |
23-2-2006 |
Winner of the Under 21 Men’s
Singles titles at both the
Liebherr German Open in 2005 and
at last week’s Liebherr Qatar
Open, Hong Kong’s Jiang Tianyi,
continued his good form on
Wednesday 22nd February 2006 at
the Kuwait International Open
Salwa Cup.
The teenager beat Belgium’s
Jean-Michel Saive, in the second
round of the Men’s Singles
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Leading Players Safely Through
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23-2-2006 |
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There were no problems for the
top four seeded players in the
Women’s Singles event at the
Kuwait International Open Salwa
Cup on Wednesday 22nd February
2006; all came through unscathed
with only second seed, China’s
Guo Yue surrendering a game.
Number one seed Zhang Yinging
plus third and fourth seeds, Guo
Yan and Tie Yana all recorded
straight games victories.
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Ghosts Laid To Rest As Fourth Seeds
Falls |
22-2-2006 |
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Patrick Chila of France caused
the biggest surprise so far in
the Kuwait International Open
and Salwa Cup when, in the early
evening of Wednesday 22nd
February 2006, he beat the
number four seed, China’s Wang
Hao, to progress to the third
round of the Men’s Singles
event.
Chila, who currently appears at
no.33 on the Men’s World Ranking
list beat Wang Hao, 11-7, 11-8,
3-11, 2-11, 11-7, 4-11, 11-8.
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A Learning Curve For Antonin Gavlas
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22-2-2006 |
He learnt from last week but he still
has more to learn, that was the story
for the Czech Republic’s Antonin Gavlas
at the Kuwait International Open and
Salwa Cup on Wednesday 22nd February
2006.
Undoubtedly, the twenty-two year old is
making progress.
He reached the second round of the Men’s
Singles event in Qatar and he reached
the same stage in Kuwait. |
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Studies First For
Kuwait Star |
22-2-2006 |
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An ITTF Pro Tour event in the Gulf area
of the World gives players from those
countries a chance to measure their
progress, a chance to play against
opposition from the traditionally strong
countries in the sport and a chance to
learn from the very best; that is the
situation for Ibrahim Al Hasan.
He is the leading player in the Gulf
area and at the Kuwait International
Open Salwa Cup he is on home soil and is
looking forward to the challenge.
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Svensson Set To Maintain Traditions
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22-2-2006 |
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In 1997
he won the Men’s Singles title at the French Open, in
1998 he was the runner up in the United States and in
2001 he reached the final of the English Open; three
very creditable results for France’s Christophe Legout
on the ITTF Pro Tour.
However, at the Kuwait International Open Salwa Cup he
experienced some problems in the qualification stage,
the cause of his anguish, twenty-two year old Robert
Svensson of Sweden.
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A
Change For The Better |
22-2-2006 |
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Six months ago,
alongside her coaches, she decided that a change to her style of
play was necessary. It was a brave decision by Hong Kong’s
nineteen year old Yu Kwok See and it is a decision that is
bearing fruit.
One week ago at the Liebherr Qatar Open she beat Italy’s Laura
Negrisoli and Japan’s Hiroko Fujii in the Women’s Singles
qualification stage and at the Kuwait International Open Salwa
Cup, she is through to the main draw. |
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