Du Kaiqin Makes History for Hong Kong at Asian Table Tennis Championships: Wins Women’s Singles Medal After 19 Years

[Naidheachdan Tilu]The Asian Table Tennis Championships held in Kazakhstan continued today (12th) in individual events Hong Kong table tennis “big sister” Du Kaiqin defeated Chinese Taipei Li Yuchen and “beautiful girl” Shin Yubin for the first time. in her career the first time the Hong Kong team won it after 19 years Asian Championships women’s singles medal.

Du Kaiqin, who recently led the Hong Kong team to win the bronze medal in the women’s team, switched to women’s singles and continued to perform well Yesterday she eliminated opponents from Iran and China to advance to the main 16. Today she faced Chinese first Taipei Li Yuchen was ahead with 11:7. 11:3, dragging the game into the deciding game, and fighting hard with “Diaoshi” in the 5th game.

Du Kaiqin (Photo: Friends of the Table Tennis Association)

Shin Yubin (Photo: WTT)

After a short break, Du Kaiqin defeated Shin Yu-bin ranked eighth in the world in the 8th battle of both sides after the Hong Kong player won the first game at 13:11, he took the courage to win again at 11:9, and Oita led by 2:0. The women’s singles champion of the Paris Olympics, Shin Yubin, fought back and won the match 11:8. -life, and won the medal without a fight in third place.

“Adu” beat the North Korean player Kim Geum-young in the semi-final and 6:11, and was behind in the third game to grab the bronze medal, scratching a tennis itch -Hong Kong women’s singles boards for 19 years. Teammate Wu Yonglin lost to Chen Xingtong in China 1:3 and stopped in the top 16.

Du Kaiqin (Photo: Friends of the Table Tennis Association)

Jin Qinying (Photo: WTT)

Wu Yonglin (Photo: Friends of the Table Tennis Federation)

In the men’s singles, the young player Chen Xianhua beat Ko Cheng-rui of Chinese Taipei 3:2 (11:9, 4:11, 6:11, 11:9, 11:5), and the then he defeated Ko Chengrui of Chinese Taipei 3:0 (11:4, 11:4, 11:8) THAKKAR India’s Manav Vikash went through, but in the quarterfinals he succumbed to Shinozuka Oden Japan in 3 straight games (8:11, 8:11, 9:11). Huang Zhenting and Lin Zhaoheng lost to China’s Lin Shidong and Wang Chuqin respectively 0:3. In the men’s doubles semi-finals held on the same day, Chen Xianhua/Huang Zhenting defeated South Korea’s Lim Jong-hoon/Ahn Jae-hyun 2:3, and also lost the medal .

To sum up this year’s Asian Games, the Hong Kong team finished with two bronze medals in the women’s team and women’s singles.

Chen Xianhua (Photo: Friends of the Table Tennis Federation)

Huang Zhenting (Photo: Friends of the Table Tennis Federation)

This article was written by “Sports road“Originally published in”Asian Table Tennis Championships ｜ Du Kaiqin lost to his North Korean opponent to win the women’s singles medal for the first time in 19 years.」