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#GNN - #GLASGOW: Reigning #champion Feng Tianwei got off to a winning start in the Commonwealth Games women´s table tennis singles with a 4-0 win over Nigerian Cecilia Akpan.
Having already progressed through to the fourth round of the mixed doubles alongside Zhan Jian, Singapore´s world number four, Feng beat Akpan, ranked 320 in the world, 11-9, 11-7, 11-5, 11-4 in the second round.
Feng, 27, who has already won gold in the women´s team event, now faces Australia´s Zhenhua Dederko in the third round on Thursday, when she begins her women´s doubles campaign alongside Yu Mengyu.
Second seed Yu, ranked 10 in the world, needed five games to beat England´s Tin-Tin Ho, 15, while third seed Lin Ye won by the same margin against Megan Phillips of Wales, to progress to the third round. (AFP)
Feng, 27, who has already won gold in the women´s team event, now faces Australia´s Zhenhua Dederko in the third round on Thursday, when she begins her women´s doubles campaign alongside Yu Mengyu.
Second seed Yu, ranked 10 in the world, needed five games to beat England´s Tin-Tin Ho, 15, while third seed Lin Ye won by the same margin against Megan Phillips of Wales, to progress to the third round. (AFP)
