SHANGHAI, May 4: Defending champion Wang Nan lost 4-3 to South Korea’s Moon Hyun-jung in the third round of the women’s singles at the world table tennis championships on Tuesday. The world number two went down 12-14 11-4 6-11 11-5 12-14 14-12 8-11 to become the first Chinese player in the tournament to lose to a non-Chinese.
Olympic champion Zhang Yining whitewashed San Marino’s Yan Chimei 4-0 to set up a meeting with Kim Hyang-mi, the North Korean she thrashed in the Athens final. In the men’s singles, China’s Ma Lin faced the toughest match of the day, winning the last game 11-9 to take a seven set thriller against Czech Petr Korbel.
Vladimir Samsonov of Belarus beat Sweden’s five-times world champion Jan-Ove Waldner 4-0 and Germany’s Timo Boll won 4-2 against Jorgen Persson. But all eyes on Wednesday are likely to be on world number one Wang Liqin, who plays Hong Kong’s Li Ching for a place in the quarterfinals.
Wang Liqin also reached the men’s doubles semi-finals with Yan Sen following a comfortable 4-1 win over Olympic singles champion Ryu Seung-min and team mate Lee Jung-woo of South Korea.
They will meet compatriots Kong Linghui and Wang Hao, who brushed aside Hong Kong’s Cheung Yuk and Leung Chu Yan 4-1.
Results(second round)
Men
Wang Hao (CHN ) CHN bt Cheung Yuk (HKG) 9/11, 11/5, 12-10, 11-6, 9/11, 7/11, 11/8;
Michael Maze (DEN ) bt Zhe Feng (BUL) 12/6, 11/6, 11/8, 11/5;
Kalinikos Kreanga (GRE) bt Christophe Legout (FRA) 8/11, 12/10, 7/11, 17/15, 11/7, 11/8;
Hao Shuai (CHN ) bt Danny Heister (NED) 11/5, 11/9, 11/8, 11/7;
Timo Boll (GER) bt Jorgen Persson (SWE) 12/10, 9/11, 11/13, 11/4, 11/5, 11/8;
Liu Guozheng (CHN) bt Slobodan Grujic (SCG) 11/6, 9/11, 9/11, 13/11, 11/3, 11/7;
Lucjan Blaszcyzk (POL) bt Bastian Steger (GER) 11/13, 11/2, 11/5, 8/11, 11/9, 7/11, 11/9;
Ma Lin (CHN) bt Petr Korbel (CZE) 11/13, 11/7, 10/12, 11/7, 11/13, 11/7, 11/9;
Wang Liqin (CHN) bt Allan Bentsen (DEN) 11/5, 7/11, 11/5, 11/6, 12/10;
Li Ching (HKG) bt Trinko Keen (NED x26) 7/11, 11/13, 2/11, 11/7, 15/13, 11/9, 11/5;
Kong Linghui (CHN) bt Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth (GER) 13/11, 11/5, 11/5, 11/7;
Chen Qi (CHN x7) bt Jorg Chnrosskopf (GER x31) 11/13, 13/11, 11/6, 11/9 11/7
Peter Karlsson (SWE) bt Jun Mizutani
(JPN) 11/5, 11/5, 11/7, 11/9;
Zhiwen He (ESP) bt Panagiotis Gionis (GRE) 11/8, 5/11, 11/5, 11/3, 8/11, 4/11, 11/4;
Alexei Smirnov (RUS) bt Oh Sang Eun (KOR x24) 11/8, 11/3, 11/6, 5/11, 3/11, 8/11, 11/7;
Vladimir Samsonov (BLR) bt Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE x21) 11/4, 15/13, 12/10, 11/7;
Women
Niu Jianfeng (CHN) bt Georgina Pota (HUN) 11/5, 11/3, 11/8, 11/1;
Krisztina Toth (HUN) bt Jia Liu (AUT x9) 11/6, 13/11, 9/11, 4/11,11/5, 11/6;
Fan Ying (CHN) bt Lau Sui Fei (HKG x11) 6/11, 7/11, 12/10, 11/5, 16/18, 11/6, 11/6;
Guo Yue (CHN) bt Elke Wosik (GER x29) 11/3, 11/5, 11/7, 11/6;
Guo Yan (CHN) bt Ai Fukuhara (JPN x21) 11/3, 4/11, 12/10, 11/9, 8/11,11/5;
Song Ah Sim (HKG) bt Kim Kyung Ah (KOR x10) 10-12, 11-8, 11-9, 8-11, 11-8, 11/7;
Jiao Li (NED) bt Mihaela Steff (ROM x13) 11/6, 5/11, 14/12, 11/9, 11/6;
Moon Hyun-jung (KOR) bt Wang Nan (CHN x2) 14/12 4/11, 11/6, 5/11 14/12, 12/14, 11/8
Zhang Yining (CHN) bt Yan Chimei (SMR) 11/2, 11/5, 11/2, 11/4;
Kim Hyang-mi (PRK ) bt Zhang Rui (HKG x15) 11/6, 11/8, 6/11, 11/6, 7/11 10/12, 11/7;
Veronika Pavlovich (BLR) bt Sayaka Hirano (JPN) 7/11, 14/12, 11/5, 11/8, 9/11, 11/6
Tie Yana (HKG x7) bt Csilla Batorfi (HUN) withdrew
Jun Gao (USA x17) bt Li Jiawei (SIN x6) 11/9, 11/7, 8/11, 5/11, 5/11, 13/11, 11/8;
Cao Zhen (CHN ) bt Zhang Xueling (SIN x30) 11/7, 6/11, 12/10, 5/11, 11/3, 11/7;
Lin Ling (HKG) bt Wenling Tan Monfardini (ITA x27) 11/8, 12/10, 11/4, 4/11, 11/5;
Tamara Boros (CRO) bt Svetlana Ganina (RUS x31) 11/6, 11/7, 9/11, 11/8, 11/7.—Agencies