CHENGDU, China, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- China has secured the men's and women's doubles titles at the ITTF World Tour China Open on Sunday as both finals will be all-Chinese affair.
Olympic champion pairing Ma Long and Zhang Jike met little resistence from Japanese duo Koki Niwa and Yuya Oshima, winning their semifinal clash 11-9, 11-8, 11-9.
"I haven't partnered with Ma for a while. We meet much tougher opponents today, so we've got to be better," said Zhang.
Another Chinese pair Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin came back from one game down to eliminate Ho Kwan Kit and Wong Chun Ting of Hong Kong, China 6-11, 12-10, 11-8, 11-5.
It was the first doubles match for Fan and Xu at the tournament as their quarterfinals opponents, Tiago Apolonia of Portugal and Andrej Gacina of Croatia, withdrew due to injury.
"I made some mistakes in the first game, and could not fit into the rhythm. Then I got back my momentum in the next three games," commented Fan.
"We started a little slow, and had to adjust ourselves to the game," said Xu, adding that the opponents felt more pressure as he and Fan came back to tie at 10 in the second game.
"When we got one game back, we could play to our normal level," he said.
In women's doubles semifinals, Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen eased past Cheng Hsien-Tzu and Chen Szu-Yu of Chinese Taipei 11-3, 12-10, 11-5 to set up a final showdown against teammates Chen Meng and Zhu Yuling, who overcame Lee Yearam and Kim Haeun of South Korea 11-3, 11-9, 7-11, 11-5.
"We did well in our communication on the court," said Ding, the newly crowned Olympic singles champion.
SHENZHEN, China, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese paddler Zhang Jike pulled out from the team trials for the World Table Tennis Championships, scheduled to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany in May, due to his foot injury here on Monday.
Zhang announced the withdrawal after enduring a three-game losing streak on Sunday, defeated by his teammates Xu Chenhao, Xu Xin and Zhou Yu. The last match against Zhou Yu was put off for 30 minutes because of the inflammation on his left foot. Although the former world number one decided to continue, but his performance was affected by the injury and eventually lost the game 7-11, 1-11 in just 15 minutes.
"It was obvious that he was restricted by the injury. When I hit the ball with large angles, he could hardly move to hit the ball back," said Zhou Yu after the match.
Grand Slam Zhang had his left foot wrenched at the end of last year and had missed the Qatar Open last month.
According to the competition rules, the team trials are divided into two stages. Zhang is currently out from the stage one but still has chance to appear in the stage two, if he can come back from the injury in time.
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