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Article: Second straight win for Chinese women at table tennis worlds
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 2, 2004
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Second straight win for Chinese women at table tennis worlds
DOHA, Qatar, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Defending champions Chinese women
whitewashed Russia 3-0 for their second straight win at the world
team table tennis championships here on Tuesday.
China, aiming to win their 15th women's team crown and sixth
straight, sent Olympic and world champion Wang Nan, ITTF Pro Tour
Finals winner Niu Jianfeng and rising star Guo Yue to the game
against lowly Russia.
Wang Nan, ranked second to teammate Zhang Yining in the world,
dropped a set in the opening game against Galina Melnik before she
won 7-11, 11-6, 11-5, 11-3.
Niu Jianfeng's lapse in concentration cost her a set too as she
beat Svetlana ...