Table tennis upsets
NZPA-Reuter Tokyo The European men’s champion, Joergen Persson, of Sweden, and the women’s No. 2, Fliura Bulatova, were ousted in early upsets in the Europe-Asia table tennis tournament at Tokyo. China’s 1985 champion, Yang Jianhua, beat the second seed, Persson, 16-21, 21-15, 16-21, 21-14, 21-13, in the second round.
Brigitte Thiriet, of France, ranked fifteenth in Europe,
surprisingly beat the third seed, Bulatova, 13-21, 21-19, 21-10, 15-21, 21-18 in another hard-fought second-round match.
The Chinese top seeds, Jiang Jialiang, the men’s world champion, and Jiao Zhimin, the women’s world No. 2, moved smoothly into the third round.
Jiang beat Tibor Klampar, of Hungary, 21-14, 21-14, 2119, and Jiao beat Japan’s Kiyomi Ishida, 21-16, 21-5, 217.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19861218.2.108.5
Bibliographic details
Press, 18 December 1986, Page 28
Word Count
118Table tennis upsets Press, 18 December 1986, Page 28
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in