China's Xu Xin and South Korea's Yang Haeun play against Hong Kong's Wong Chun Ting and Doo Hoi Kem in their mixed doubles semi-final match at the World Table Tennis Championships in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, April 30, 2015. REUTERS/Aly Song
(Reuters) - China's Xu Xin and Yang Ha-eun of South Korea have teamed up to become the first cross-border partnership to win the world mixed doubles table tennis championship for 61 years.
The pair beat Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa and Maharu Yoshimura 4-0 at the world championships on Friday, becoming the first mixed nationality winners of the title since Czechoslovakia's Ivan Andreadis and Hungarian Gizella Gervai at Wembley in 1954.
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