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TOKYO (Reuters) -China’s Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen and Japan’s Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito won their mixed doubles semi-finals on Sunday to reach the event’s first Olympic final.
Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles - Quarterfinal - Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium - Tokyo, Japan - July 25, 2021. Mima Ito of Japan celebrates winning her match with Jun Mizutani of Japan against Patrick Franziska of Germany and Petrissa Solja of Germany REUTERS/Thomas Peter
World number two Xu, 31, and world champion Liu, 30, beat French pair Emmanuel Lebesson and Yuan Jia Nan 4-0.
“From the start to the middle to the end, we took the game to them,” Xu told reporters.
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The wait goes on as Sofia Polcanova exits the stage - International Table Tennis Federation
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International Table Tennis Federation 25 Apr 2021
Seeded 37th for the women’s singles draw, Polina Trifonova has been one of the outstanding performers at the European Olympic Singles Qualification Tournament in Guimarães with a host of shock victories throughout the five-day event.
On the morning of Sunday 25th April, the Bulgarian moved one step closer to dreamland with a ticket to Tokyo 2020 now within reach.
Polina Trifonova needs just one more win to claim an unlikely place at Tokyo 2020 (Photo courtesy of organising committee)
by Simon Daish
Taking on Luxembourg’s Sarah De Nutte, a player seeded 30 positions higher and the clear favourite heading into the match, Trifonova wasn’t at all fazed by the prospect, indeed she relished the challenge. Just five games required to seal another monumental win (11-9, 10-12, 11-8, 11-7, 11-8), Trifonova is now just one win away from securing her qualification against all the odds!