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China’s Wang beats Sun in women’s singles table tennis final at Asian Games
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Asian multi-sport event
The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years for athletes of Asia. The Games were regulated by Asian Games Federation from the first Games in New Delhi, India in 1951, until the 1978 Games. Since the 1982 Games, they have been organized by the Olympic Council of Asia, after the breakup of the Asian Games Federation. The Games are recognized by the International Olympic Committee and are the second largest multi-sport event after the Olympic Games.
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More on Wikipedia ↗Men’s doubles players Huang Youzheng and Lin Shidong also claim gold after beating Japan’s Harimoto Tomokazu and Shinozuka Hiroto.
In the women's singles quarterfinal of table tennis at the Nagoya Asian Games, Sun Yingsha defeated Zhu Qianxi 4-2 (11-9, 14-12, 11-3, 7-11, 11-13, 11-8) to advance to the semifinals.
Wang Manyu beat Sun Yingsha 4–2 in Nagoya for her second Asian Games women's singles title, China's eighth in a row — and Sun's press-conference admission that the next Games may fall outside her career turned a routine all-Chinese final into a reflection on how little time the country's table tennis stars actually…