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Hong Kong Athletes Struggle in First Game of Asian Games Beach Volleyball

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

[Tilu News]Although the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games officially opened on Saturday (23rd), some team events started today (19th). Among them, beach volleyball female players To Yong-tung/Huang Wenjing were the first pair of Hong Kong athletes to appear. Unfortunately, the two In the first game of the group stage, the team was reversed after winning one game first, and had a bad start.

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

The beach volleyball event kicked off today at the Ningbo Banbianshan Beach Volleyball Center. The Hong Kong team has one male and two female pairs participating in the group stage.The cooperation lasted only one and a half years, andDu Yongtong/Huang Wenjing, participating in the Asian Games for the first timeBeing included in Group B, competing with Indonesia, Thailand, Macau and the Philippines, the “Du Huang Pei”, who is 7 years apart in age, faced the Filipino combination PROGELLA Khylem Harl/MATIBAG Grydelle Joanice in their first match. The Hong Kong player performed ideally in the first game and won with 21 :17 took the lead first, and the score was tight with the opponent in the second game. In the battle, Diao Shi only lost 21:23. Entering the decisive game, the two sides were still fighting hard. In the end, Du Yongtong/Huang Wenjing lost 13:15, and the game score was 1:2. Losing and failing to open the door to victory, they will compete with Thailand’s Narapornrapat/Kongphopsarutawadee at 12 noon tomorrow (20th).

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

Hong Kong team’s only men’s team Wang Pei Lam/Lin Qifeng wore armor in the afternoon. Wang Peilin partnered with Liu Zihao in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, but the latter immediately withdrew from the game due to physical discomfort during the first game. After returning to Hong Kong for a checkup, he was diagnosed with leukemia. After long-term treatment, he finally lost his battle with cancer and passed away last year at the age of 27. . Wang Peilin changed several partners after that, and at the end of last year, he teamed up with Lin Qifeng, his indoor volleyball teammate Renji, to win a ticket to the Hangzhou Asian Games.

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

Men’s sand volleyball has a total of 8 groups, and the top two in each group advance to the top 16. Wang Peilin, who threatened to fight for Liu Zihao, and Lin Qifeng were placed in Group C. Japan and Thailand are in the same group. The two will fight against Japan’s TAKAHASHI today. Takumi/AGEBA Yuya, there is a certain gap in strength, and they lost at 9:21 and 14:21. They defeated Thailand at 2 pm on Friday (22nd) to advance.

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

As for Lu Huiyin/Yuan Tingzhi, who made their final appearance in the women’s group C, they also surrendered to Macau with two straight sets at 21:16 and 21:15, Leong On-ying/Law Wing-sim, and will beat South Korea tomorrow (20), Thursday (21) and Friday (22) Japan) played against Japan and Thailand respectively.

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

(Photo: Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee)

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This article is written by “Sportsroad“Originally published in “[Hangzhou Asian Games]Hong Kong team lost to To Yung-tung in the first game/Huang Wenjing was reversed in the sand volleyball group stage

2023-09-19 10:18:45

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