Tag: FENG Tianwei
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Feng Tianwei breaks Chinese winning streak to claim first ever Asian Cup gold
Jaipur, India, March 16, 2015: Singapore’s FENG Tianwei made history on 15 March 2015, as she upset the top seed, LIU Shiwen (CHN) at the GAC Group 2015 Asian Cup held from 13 – 15 March 2015 in the Indian city of Jaipur. The GAC Group 2015 Asian Cup is the continental qualification for the…
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Singapore Table Tennis Gold Rush
Glasgow, August 2, 2014: Singapore Table Tennis Gold Rush, Singapore has reaffirmed their status as the top table tennis country in the Commonwealth Games, winning six out of the seven gold medals available at Glasgow 2014. The only gold that Singapore missed out on was the Mixed Doubles, an event that England remarkably claimed gold,…
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Singapore Secures Double Team Gold
Glasgow, July 29, 2014: Singapore Secures Double Team Gold, Singapore has secured the Commonwealth Games Women’s and Men’s Teams gold for the fourth consecutive time in Glasgow, Scotland, since table tennis was introduced into the Commonwealth Games in 2002. The Singapore Women’s team, consisting of FENG Tianwei, YU Mengyu and LIN Ye, (Isabelle LI and…
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Four team’s hard work and persistence paid off
Tokyo, May 3, 2014: England and Italy were successful in jumping up from the men’s second division to the Championship Division, while Brazil and Sweden will be joining the world’s best teams at the 2016 ITTF World Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Team England’s Liam Pitchford was the key to England returning to the Championships…
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Dubai Heats up at the German Open
Lausanne, Nov 12, 2013: The third last GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour event of the year begins tomorrow 13 November 2013. Part of the top-tier Super Series, the German Open will be held in Berlin, Germany. A record field of 384 players, of which an astonishing 44 of them have previously won a World…
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World Number One Defends ITTF Women’s World Cup
Kobe – Japan, Sept 23, 2013: LIU Shiwen (CHN) has proven why she is the world’s best table tennis player by claiming gold at the STARTS 2013 ITTF Women’s World Cup, which concluded 23 September 2013 in Kobe, Japan. The 22-year-old beat fellow countrywomen WU Yang 11-3, 11-7, 11-7, 11-2 to claim her third Women’s…
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LIU Breaks Ning’s 22-Month Streak as World #1
Lausanne, Sept 6, 2013: LIU Shiwen (CHN) is table tennis’s new women’s world number one, knocking her team mate DING Ning (CHN) off top spot, which she had held for a record 22 months. The 22 year old, who last held the number one spot back in October 2010 as a fresh-faced 19 year old,…
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Players for STARTS ITTF Women’s World Cup
Lausanne, Aug 13, 2013: The 20 players invited to compete in the STARTS 2013 ITTF Women’s World Cup, to be held in Kobe, Japan on 21-23 September 2013, has been revealed by the International Table Tennis Federation. The world’s best female Table Tennis players have battled through qualifications for the past 4 months to gain…
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HK team enters the Semifinals beating Japan
London – GBR, August 05, 2012: Japan are through to Tuesdy’s final after beating Singapore 3-0 and will win at least a silver medal. Ai FUKUHARA (JPN) set Japan on their way in the first match, showing her strength close to the table by beating women’s singles bronze medallist FENG Tianwei (SIN) 3-1. Kasumi ISHIKAWA…
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Top Seeds Crash in Chile Quarter-Finals
Lausanne-Switzerland, April 30, 2012: Top Seeds Crash, Japan’s Jun MIZUTANI and Singapore’s FENG Tianwei, the top two seeds in the respective Men’s and Women’s Singles events at the GAC GROUP 2012 ITTF World Tour Chile Open in Santiago, both crashed to defeat at the quarter-final stage on Saturday 28th April. Jun MIZUTANI was beaten by…