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Taiwan’s Tai takes silver after close battle with China’s Chen | Taiwan News | 2021-08-01 22:18:00


Tai Tzu-Ying of Taiwan at work throughout the suit versus China’s Chen Yufei. (Reuters picture)

TAIPEI (Taiwan Information)– In a relentless backward and forward fight, Taiwan’s “Queen of Tennis,” disappointed her pursuit for Olympic gold in the ladies’s tennis songs finals in Tokyo.

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At the Musashino Woodland Sports Plaza in Tokyo, Japan, Taiwan’s Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎) discovered herself one put down with a rating of 18 to 21 for her Chinese challenger Chen Yufei (陳雨菲). In the 2nd collection, she rallied back wonderfully to win the 2nd collection 21-19, night the suit at one collection each.

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In the 3rd collection, Tai discovered herself coming under a deep opening at an early stage. Via lots of nail-biting plays, she had the ability to function her back to within 2 factors of Chen.

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Nevertheless, after one long last rally, Tai struck the internet as well as shed the last collection to China’s most current gold medal manufacturing facility item at 21-18

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However, the silver medal is Tai’s very first Olympic tennis medal as well as the very first by a Taiwanese lady. With Tai’s silver medal, Taiwan additionally improves its record-shattering overall of 10 medals, consisting of 2 gold, 4 silver, as well as 4 bronze.

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