1 XU Xin, while Patrick FRANZISKA tries to creat another upset, facing Hong Kong’s WONG Chun Ting. Mattias FALCK is going to play against actual world no. Liang Jingkun took out Lin Gaoyuan, Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin enroute to claiming Mens Singles Gold at the Chinese Team Tokyo2020 Simulation Games. Tomorrow, July 20th, HAN Ying will face top seeded WANG Manyu. The 2017 T2 Diamond League winner Bernadette SZOCS of Romania was beaten by China’s DING Ning, current world no. Regarding women’s event, HAN Ying of Germany proceeded among the best eight, as she eliminated Chinese Taipei’s, world no. In the other match that followed, Chinas Wang Chuqin beat the biggest dark horse of the tournament 4-1. Zhang Benzhihe led all the way, but was scored by Liang Jingkun at the last minute, and won 11:9. Sweden’s Mattias FALCK has joined him in the quarter-finals after his victory against Japan’s Koki NIWA (JPN), after six games. , 3:50:20 PM Highlights: Liang Jingkun beat Japans Tomokazu Chang 26-4 to advance to the semifinals. When it came to the championship, Liang Jingkun had another chance to prove himself. Germany’s Patrick FRANZISKA caused biggest upset of the Day 2 at the T2 Diamond Table Tennis League in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, as he beat world no. The championship stops in the semi-finals again. If this event, and countries participating, are able to denounce this incident resolutely and stand together against racism there is hope that this horrible experience will rally and unify the competing nations.T2 Diamond Table Tennis League (T2 Diamond) in Johor Bahru, Malaysia (July 18-21) 1 Fan Zhendong, who will be competing for the trophy against the Swedish player Truls Moregard on Monday night (local time). 9 had made through to the semi-finals of men’s singles, where he lost 4-1 to the world No. 'For tomorrow’s final, the head-to-head record doesn’t matter much to me,' said Ma, who memorably edged out Fan in last year's Tokyo Olympics gold-medal match. The unpleasant episode, however, seems to not have affected Liang, as the world No. The 33-year-old veteran had easily defeated compatriot and world No.5 Liang Jingkun in the other men's singles semi-final 11-5, 11-9, 11-4, 11-8. There is a small hope that this event is a way for the respective competitors and countries to rally together against the hatred on display. The ITTF had also released a statement on Sunday to Xinhua news saying that it “won’t tolerate any racist behaviour…and table tennis family is a global community group composed of 27 member associations and diversity unites us”. “As soon as we got that complaint, together with local organisers, we took it very, very serious, and we started to take actions,” said Steve Dainton, Group CEO of ITTF, “If anything was ever heard again, we would take those people out,” Dainton added. In an interview with China Media Group, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has denounced the act. The occurrence of the incident has more or less left a sour taste in the sentiment of unifying through this event, with racist remarks such as in this round cementing the concerns of difficulties between people. The tournament is set to project a sense of unity and mark 50 years of “ping pong diplomacy” between the US and China, with players from the two countries being paired up in the mixed doubles event. It is currently impossible to identify individuals who were involved in the incident as no clear footage from the scene is available. “Given that the word ‘banana’ is an insult to the yellow race in English slang, and based on the actual circumstances, it is also reasonable to suspect that he was actually making a racist insult against Liang”, read the article in The Global Times. This was when the man began chanting in English, which led to several members of the crowd echoing around in succession, shouting for a while before they stopped. It was reported that a white male spectator started calling out the racist remarks “loudly and on-loop” during the sixth seed Liang’s 4-3 victory over Liam Pitchford at the George R Brown Convention Centre in Houston, Texas.įollowing an intense fight in the fourth-round encounter, where the score was lodged at 8-4 in the tiebreaker, Pitchford who had just won a goal motioned for a rest and had taken out a banana to eat while Liang was talking to his coach. This incident occurred this past Saturday, as according to the state-owned media The Global Times on 29 November. Liang Jingkun, the Chinese ping pong player, was shouted at “yellow banana” while he was playing against his British counterpart Liam Pitchford at the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships.
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