Table Tennis
Day One: Mixed doubles quarter-finalists decided, top seeds on course
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Saturday, 24 July 2021 09:02
Places in the mixed doubles quarter-finals at stake on the opening day of play, Saturday 24th July, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games; Romania’s Ovidiu Ionescu and Bernadette Szocs emerged as the pair to attract the attention. The Romanian number 9 seeds upset the order. They beat Slovakia’s Lubomir Pistej and Barbora Balazova, the number 5 seeds (11-8, 11-8, 12-14,…
Intriguing battles in store on day two of table tennis action
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Saturday, 24 July 2021 09:08
An intriguing day of table tennis competition at the Mixed Doubles event awaits as Japan’s Mima Ito and Mizutani Jun take on Germany’s Patrick Franziska and Petrissa Solja in the quarter-final at 1100 (local time). The second seed Japanese are gunning for that historic gold medal on home soil and a win over the Germans, who are seeded seventh, will…
Zaza makes history as Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games begins
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Friday, 23 July 2021 21:02
History was made at the Table Tennis competition on Saturday when Syria’s 12-year-old Hend Zaza became the youngest Olympian in any sport since 1968 by competing in the Women’s Singles preliminary round for the first time. Not since the 1968 Winter Olympics when 11-year-old Beatrice Hustiu competed in figure skating, has the Games welcomed another youngster. Zaza inked her place…
Favourites progress in Mixed Doubles as Zaza creates history on the opening day of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
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Saturday, 24 July 2021 00:44
Top seeds China along with Japan and Chinese Taipei showed no signs of nerve as they progressed comfortably to the quarter-finals with the Mixed Doubles of the table tennis competition making its debut at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Saturday. China survives early scare Team China, represented by Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, took 43 minutes to dispatch the Canadian…
France responds, Thibault Poret wins match of the day
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Friday, 23 July 2021 08:11
Alexis Lebrun, the no.21 seed and Alexis Kourachi, the no.31 seed, progressed to the third round of the junior boys’ singles event as their status suggested. Conversely, colleague Thibault Poret performed the recovery of the day to cause a major upset – in the second round he fought back from a three games to nil deficit to beat Belgium’s Nicolas…
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