ITTF World Tour Chile Open - Li and Sun into the Semi Finals of the Women Doubles

Sun Beibei returning a ball to her opponent

Singapore's Li Jiawei and Sun Beibei made it through to the Semi Finals of the Women Doubles event ater defeating America's Wu Yue and Zheng Jiaqi. Wu Yue and Zheng Jiaqi may not be ranked as high as Jiawei and Beibei, but they certainly caused the Singaporeans duo many problems. Li and Sun had to crawl back from 0-1 down to win by the narrowest margin of 7 games. The Singaporeans won 2-11, 11-5, 11-6, 6-11, 11-3, 4-11, 11-2.

Meanwhile luck was not in favour of Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu. They lost 4-3 to Japan's Fukuhara Ai and Morizono Misaki. Tianwei and Mengyu were leading 2-1 after the 3rd set and 3-2 after the 5th set. But the Japanese managed to overturn. Feng and Yu lost 12-14, 13-11, 11-9, 8-11, 11-8, 5-11, 8-11.

Our female paddlers also enjoyed success in the Women Singles event with 3 of the 4 players reaching the Quarter Finals. Yu Mengyu was the sole casualty. She lost to third seeds, Japan's Fukuhara Ai 4-11, 11-9, 11-6, 7-11, 5-11, 5-11 in the second round.

Top Seed Feng Tianwei was in unforgiving mood. She defeated Japan's defensive player Ishigaki Yuka 11-9, 8-11, 11-4, 12-14, 11-5, 14-12. Li Jiawei and Sun Beibei crashed Poland's Stefanska Kinga and South Korea's Dang Ye Seo respectively. Li won 11-7, 11-7, 11-6, 7-11, 11-5. Sun won 11-7, 7-11, 11-7, 11-7, 11-3.

Li Jiawei / Sun Beibei will face Japan's Ishigaki Yuka / Yamanashi Yuri in the Semi Finals tomorrow. Feng Tianwei, Li Jiawei and Sun Beibei will take on South Korea's Yang Ha Eun, Japan's Fujii Hiroko and America's Zheng Jiaqi respectively in the Quarter Finals tomorrow.