Tag: Tomokazu Harimoto

  • China’s Wang escapes the nail biter in the table tennis world title defense

    China’s Wang escapes the nail biter in the table tennis world title defense

    © Provided by Xinhua All Chinese paddlers have reached the singles in the 16s after the Day 5 events at the ITTF World Table Tennis Championships (WTTC) finals. DURBAN, South Africa, May 24 (Xinhua) — Defending champion Wang Manyu of China triumphed in a full-game thriller against Hanna Haponova of Ukraine to book a place…

  • China sweeps the women’s semifinal berths in the WTT Cup Finals

    XINXIANG, China, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) — Chinese women paddlers showed their dominance by taking all the semi-final spots at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Cup Finals here on Friday. Wang Manyu recorded the same score of 11-4 in three games to dispatch Mima Ito, helping her win over the Japanese ace in the final of…

  • China’s Zhang Rui wins 2 titles at WTT Contender Tunis

    TUNIS, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) — China’s Zhang Rui grabbed the spotlight at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender Tunis here on Saturday by winning the women’s singles and doubles titles. Japan’s Miwa Harimoto pulled out all the stops to thwart Zhang in the singles final, coming back from 3-1 down to force a decider, but…

  • Four Chinese male paddlers drawn in the same half in the Houston Worlds

    HOUSTON, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) – Four of China’s five elite athletes, including world number 1 Fan Zhendong, will share a star-studded top half of the men’s singles after the draw for the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships here on Sunday. Fan, who participated in the draw ceremony with the newly crowned Olympic women’s singles champion…

  • Last places for table tennis men’s team at Tokyo Olympics

    TOKYO, August 6 (Xinhua) – The following are the final placements of the table tennis men’s team at the Tokyo Olympics this Friday: 1. China (Xu Xin, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin) Germany (Patrick Franziska, Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Benedikt Duda) Japan (Yukiya Uda, Jun Mizutani, Tomokazu Harimoto, Koki Niwa) South Korea (An Jaehyun,…