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Latest Table Tennis newsChina’s Wang Liqin and Guo Yue, the respective reigning Men’s and
Women’s World champions both negotiated their fourth round matches in
the Yokohama Arena at the H.I.S. World Championships on Saturday 2nd
May 2009.
However, both experienced problems; both had to dig deep into their mental reserves to emerge victorious; especially Guo Yue.
They applauded Jun Mizutani as he left the arena and with an almost
equal ovation they applauded Jörgen Persson as he followed the Japanese
star out of the arena.
A brave effort but alas in vain; that was the scenario in the
matches which sparked the contests in the third round of the Men’s
Doubles event at the H.I.S. World Championships in Yokohama in the
early afternoon of Saturday 2nd May 2009.
The favourites prevailed but only just with the vanquished giving spirited performances.
"The main thing is that there is a player from the Czech Republic in
the quarter-finals", said a very sporting Renata Strbikova after losing
her fourth round Women’s Singles duel against compatriot Iveta
Vacenovska at the H.I.S. World Championships, late in the afternoon of
Saturday 2nd May 2009.
Korea’s 26 year old Kim Jung Hoon caused one of the major upsets on
the third day of play at the H.I.S. World Championships in Yokohama; in
the second round of the Men’s Singles event he beat Vladimir Samsonov
of Belarus, the no.3 seed.
Russia’s 23 year old Anastasia Voronova was the player to cause the
major surprise in the early exchanges in the first round of the Women’s
Singles event at the H.I.S.World Championships in Yokohama on the
morning of Thursday 30th April 2009.
Croatia’s Zoran Primorac, who will celebrate his 40th birthday four
days after the curtain has been drawn on the H.I.S. World Championships
in Yokohama, performed the recovery of the morning on the third day of
play, Thursday 30th April 2009.
Love and a telephone call; essential ingredients if you want to
record the biggest win of your career on the biggest stage of all.
Well
those were the constituent factors that contributed the biggest shock
to date at the H.I.S. World Championships in Yokohama.
It was joy and despair for Korea in the second round of the Men’s
Singles event at the H.I.S. World Championships in Yokohama on the
evening of Thursday 30th April 2009.
Ryu Seung Min, seeded no.
9, suffered at the hands of Slovenia’s Bojan Tokic to bring tears to
the eyes of Korean supporters as the 2004 Olympic Men’s Singles
champion bid farewell.
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