Taiwanese table tennis players Su Pei-ling (left) and Liao Cheng-ting. Photo from facebook.com/CTUSFSSU
Taiwanese table tennis players Su Pei-ling (left) and Liao Cheng-ting. Photo from facebook.com/CTUSFSSU
Taipei, July 9 (CNA) Taiwanese table tennis players Liao Cheng-ting and Su Pei-ling clinched a bronze medal in the table tennis mixed doubles competition at the 2019 Universiade in Naples on Monday, after losing to a Chinese team in the semifinals.
Liao and Su actually led the best-of-seven semifinal two games to one and fought back from an 8-2 deficit to even up the fourth game at 8-8, but the Chinese team of Yu Ziyang and Wang Yidi took command after that, winning the match 11-4, 7-11, 9-11, 11-9, 11-1, 11-5.
Because there is no match played for the bronze medal in the Universiade table tennis competition, Liao and Su took bronze simply by virtue of reaching the semifinal round and failing to advance to the final.
Yu and Wang will face another Chinese team, Zhao Zihao and Fan Siqi, for the gold medal.
The bronze was Liao's second medal at this year's Universiade in Italy after he won silver in the men's team event. He also won bronze medals in the men's team, men's doubles and mixed doubles events at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei two years ago.
The Universiade is an international multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation, and is held every two years. It was held in Taipei in 2017.
