China, S. Korea, Czech, Germany, Mexico in Final Sprints of Tennis DoublesChina will confront with South Korea in the women's tennis doubles final at the Universiade Wednesday, while the Czech Republic will meet Mexico in men's doubles final.Top Chinese pair Li Na and Li Ting advanced to the final by beating Julie Coin and Emile Scribot from France 6-3, 6-3 in a lobsided match at the newly-built Beijing Muxiyuan Tennis Center this afternoon. Li Na and Li Ting did not compete with any seeded pairs before entering the final, while South Korea's Kim Eun-Ha and Kim Mi-Ok, the second seed, defeated Chinese Taipei's Janet Lee and Weng Tzu- Ting, the third seed, 7-5, 6-4 in an intense fight of the semifinal this afternoon. Li Na and Li Ting have aroused their home crowd's hope for taking a gold in the tennis tournament of the Universiade for China. Mexico's unseeded Lozano Carlos and Arredondo Juan cruised into the men's doubles final by eliminating China's Li Si and Yang Jingzhu, the fifth seed, 7-5, 7-5 in the semifinal this afternoon. The seventh seed, Pavel Kudrnac and Tomas Macharacek, from the Czech Republic, stepped into the men's final by upseting top seeded Kim Dong-Hyun and Lee Chang-Hoon from South Korea. The mixed doubles competition will see two semifinal games on Wednesday, China's Zhu Benqiang and Li Na vs Tomas Macharacek and Linda Faltynkova from the Czech Republic, and South Korea's Kim Dong-Hyun and Kim Eun-ha vs Germany's Jan Bruszewski and Claudia Bensch. The South Korean pair is the defending champion of the event at the Universiade, but the Chinese top pair also vowed to fight to the end. |
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