Olympics | China's Wang/Sun to reach table tennis mixed doubles semis


  • World
  • Monday, 29 Jul 2024

PARIS, July 28 (Xinhua) -- China's Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, top seeds in the table tennis mixed doubles event at Paris 2024, endured a tough contest before securing a 4-2 comeback win over Lin Yun-Ju and Chen Szu-Yu of Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinals here on Sunday.

The sixth-seeded Chinese Taipei pair started strongly, building a 2-1 lead in the first three sets. However, Wang and Sun, who won consecutive World Championships in 2021 and 2023, played an even more thorough game afterwards, wrapping up the match 7-11, 11-6, 6-11, 11-7, 11-9, 11-3 in nearly one hour at South Paris Arena 4.

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