Hong Kong Table Tennis Team Shines at Asian Championships: Women’s Success Continues, Men’s Team Advances to Top 8

[Naidheachdan Tilu]After the Hong Kong table tennis team competed in the Chinese Grand Slam earlier, they immediately went to Kazakhstan to compete in the Asian Table Tennis Championships today (8th), the Hong Kong team played against Thailand in the top 8 of the women’s medal team for three consecutive years. The Hong Kong team also successfully defeated Singapore in the men’s team to reach the top 8, and will compete with Chinese Taipei for the top 4 spots tomorrow.

Du Kaiqin (Photo: Tilu Database)

The Hong Kong team has been in the women’s team for two consecutive seasons in the last issue this year, they also jumped the group stage and went straight to the top 8. including Paris Olympic team Du Kaiqin, Zhu Chengzhu and Li Haoqing In the first match, Hong Kong table tennis “first sister” Du Kaiqin faced Thailand’s SAWETTABUT Sutasini :8, 11:5, 11:8, with the match number at 3:1. The Hong Kong team took the lead.

Du Kaiqin (Photo: Tilu Database)

Zhu Chengzhu (Photo: Tilu Database)

Zhu Chengzhu (Photo: Tilu Database)

In the second game, Zhu Chengzhu’s Hong Kong team went head-to-head against PARANANG Orawan In the deciding game, Zhu Chengzhu and his opponent fought fiercely to win 12:10, and Zhu won Chengzhu the complete game. The team won 3:2, and the Hong Kong team took the lead to 2:0. In the third match, the Hong Kong team’s “big sister” Li Haoqing easily defeated SAWETTABUT Jinnipa 11:7, 11:9, 11:6, helping the Hong Kong team advance to the west -finals with a total score of 3:0 , confirming the third consecutive victory without a third-place match, and will compete with the top Chinese women’s table tennis team in the finals tomorrow.

Li Haoqing (Photo: Tilu Database)

Li Haoqing (Photo: Tilu Database)

After the Hong Kong men’s table tennis team qualified first in the third group in the group stage, they took the lead in beating Malaysia 3:0 in the knockout round today, and then they competed with Singapore to reach the top 8, with Wong Chun-ting, Lim Siu-hang and Chen Haohua playing. Rookie Chen Haohua of the Hong Kong team took the lead to beat Singapore player Guo Yong 3:2 in the later game, although “Big Brother” Huang Zhenting lost to Pang Yiuen in the game 2:3, tied Singapore the game fortunately, the Hong Kong team was led by Lin Siu-hang. helping the Hong Kong team advance with a score of 3:1 Tomorrow, they will compete with Chinese Taipei for the top 4 sets of the men’s team.

Huang Zhenting (Photo: Tilu Database)

Chen Haohua (Photo: Tilu Database)

Lin Zhaoheng (Photo: Tilu Database)

Text: Jia Zhaozhi

This article was written by “Sports road“Originally published in”Asian Table Tennis Championships｜ Hong Kong women’s table tennis team defeated Singapore in a fierce battle with the men’s team for the third consecutive year to advance to the top 8」