Wang Nan beats teammate for third consecutive singles title

PARIS: It was raining gold for China at the table tennis world championships here yesterday, with Wang Nan lifting the women’s singles and the Wang Liqin-Yen Sen combination taking the men’s doubles. 

But the sport’s superpower, which on Friday also won the mixed doubles, has only one representative left in the hunt for the men’s singles, with Olympic champion Kong Linhui in a semi-final match-up against Austria’s Werner Schlager today.