Ou Zihong and Lin Weijie won the men's doubles gold medal in the Soft Tennis Competition of Japan's Yuneke Cup.

(Provided by the Soft Net Association of the Republic of China)

[Sports Center/Comprehensive Report] The Soft Tennis Association of the Republic of China participated in this (2023) YONEX Cup Sapporo International Soft Tennis Championship in Japan. Under the leadership of Chairman Zhu, it won the men's doubles individual championship.

In the 2023 Sapporo YONEX CUP Cup Soft Tennis Championship, Chairman Zhu Wenqing led the Chinese team to participate in the men's doubles players Ou Zihong and Lin Weijie.

The group preliminaries advanced to the semi-finals with all three wins and only one loss.

In the semi-finals, the young Japanese players Sato and Okada advanced to the championship with an overwhelming score (4:1).

In the championship game, Mizuki and Duanshan, the players of Waseda University in Japan, started a tug-of-war in the first game. The Japanese team won the first game, followed by a 1:1 tie and fell behind 1:2. With the last point, he won the championship 4:2 and won a bonus of 120,000 yen.

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Previously, Chairman Zhu led Lin Weijie and Yu Kaiwen to win the championship of this award in 2019 at the beginning of his tenure. Due to Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19), the suspension was suspended for three years. After Lin Weijie's combination won the championship in one fell swoop, Chairman Zhu felt very pleased and honored.

Because this event is a high-level competition with 16 male and female elite players from Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea invited by the organizer. For players outside Japan, the organizer specially invites the first place in each country. Players can only participate, so it is the top players plus their domestic elite players. The seven-inning game system does not allow any mistakes or negligence.

The selection of Chinese players is based on the representative players who won the three ranking tournaments of the National Open Group last (2022). In this competition, the experienced veteran Lin Weijie led the young player Ou Zihong's initial cry and became a blockbuster.

This year's Hangzhou Asian Games is still about half a year away, and I look forward to doing more reinforcement training on the strengths and weaknesses of the players after returning to China. In the team competition, strengthen the strength of the doubles competition to strive for superior and characteristic results, and strive for the gold medal as the ultimate goal.

Ou Zihong and Lin Weijie won the men's doubles gold medal in the Soft Tennis Competition of Japan's Yuneke Cup.

(Provided by the Soft Net Association of the Republic of China)

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