SAR para paddlers guaranteed seven medals

Hong Kong, China’s para table tennis team were on Monday guaranteed at least seven medals at the Asian Para Games in Nagoya, with seven players advancing to the semi-finals of their respective events. With no third-place play-off in the individual table tennis events, all seven are guaranteed at least a bronze medal. In the women’s singles Class 11 event, Wong Ting-ting edged past Natsuki Wada of hosts Japan in a nail-biting five-game quarter-final. Pushed to a decider at two-all, neither player managed to build more than a two-point cushion in the final game until Wong clinched the last two points to take it 12-10 and secure victory. Lam Yan-yu also guaranteed herself a spot on the podium after defeating Gloria Wong from Malaysia 3-1 in the women’s singles class 10 quarter-finals. Chiu Kan-shan and Wong Yue-ching won all of their group matches in the women’s singles Class 7, skipping the quarter-finals to head straight into the semi-finals. Pang Wing-ka, meanwhile, finished second in her group in her women’s singles Class 6 event to clinch her semi-final ticket. On the men’s side, Wong Chi-yin and Wong Hon-lam advanced to the semi-finals of the men’s singles Class 9 after defeating their respective opponents from Indonesia and Kazakhstan. All seven...