By Lin Wenjian | Fit To Post Sports – Mon, Jul 30, 2012 11:58 PM SGT
Singapore's women's table tennis team will not be able to at least match their silver medal achievements of the last Olympics in Beijing in 2008.
The trio of Feng Tianwei, Wang Yuegu and Li Jiawei lost 0-3 to Japan in the semi-finals of the team event in front of 3,000 spectators at London's ExCel Arena on Sunday.
Playing in the first singles match, Singapore's Olympic bronze medallist Feng Tianwei lost 9-11, 6-11, 11-5, 9-11 to Japan's Ai Fukuhara.
In the second match, Wang Yuegu came up against Kasumi Ishikawa, the 19-year-old teenager she had lost to in the singles event last week.
Even though Wang tried hard, Ishikawa, ranked world No. 6, trounced the Singaporean 11-5, 11-6, 11-2.
It was then left to the pair of Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu to salvage some pride and keep Singapore in the match.
But the Singaporeans had no answer to the prowess of the Japanese pair of Sayaka Hirano and Ishikawa, losing 11-3, 13-11, 11-4.
Singapore will meet the loser of the China vs South Korea match for the bronze medal on Tuesday. (Singapore time 6pm).
In the men's team event, Singapore lost to China 0-3 in the quarter-finals.
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