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Article: Only Chinese can stop Chinese from steamrolling in table tennis
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- April 27, 2009
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Only Chinese can stop Chinese from steamrolling in table tennis
By Sportswriter Cao Jianjie
YOKOHAMA, Japan, April 27 (Xinhua) -- The world table tennis
championships that opens in Yokohama on Tuesday might not see
Chinese sweep the board as they had done in the previous two
editions. That doesn't mean they are not able to.
China pulled three versatile players off the doubles events,
deliberately making the Yokohama championships more open.
Wang Liqin, Ma Lin and Zhang Yining, who have involved in nine
doubles victories in the world championships, won't enter the
doubles competitions and will concentrate on the singles events
instead.
Cai Zhenhua, newly elected Chinese table tennis ...