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No. 2 Liu into table tennis last eight

Xinhua, May 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

World No. 2 Liu Shiwen from China made short work of South Korea's Yang Hae-un and advanced to the women's singles quarter-finals on Friday.

Yang, who suffered a 11-5, 11-4, 11-6, 11-3 loss to Liu, has one more game to play at the world table tennis championships as she has reached the mixed doubles final partnering with Chinese Xu Xin.

Yang/Xu are the only transnational pair remaining in competition as three other duos involving Chinese had exited early.

The combination of Germany's Timo Boll and China's Ma Long, previously tipped as the most watchable, lost men's doubles to China's Zhang Jike and Xu Xin in the second round.

In the morning's action, world No. 4 Feng Tianwei won an all-Singaporean game to reach the quarter-finals.

Feng, who led Singapore to the world team title in 2010 and runners-up to China in 2012, beat 16th-ranked Yu Mengyu 11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 12-10, 11-9.

The 29-year-old former Chinese will take on China's Mu Zi, who defeated Sweden's Matilda Ekholm 12-10, 13-11, 11-5, 11-3.

China's world No. 6 Zhu Yuling subdued 27th-ranked Li Jie from the Netherlands, 11-5, 11-3, 11-6, 11-2. Enditem