Singapore reach women's table tennis team semi-finals

Rivalries between the women paddlers of Singapore and Japan will be renewed at the London Olympics.

On Saturday night (Sunday morning, Singapore time), Singapore overcame North Korea 3-0 at London's ExCel Arena to set up a semi-final clash with the Japanese on Sunday (Monday morning, Singapore time) in the women's team event of the London Games' table tennis competition.

Singapore had denied the Japanese a bronze medal in the women's singles earlier this week after Feng defeated Kasumi Ishikawa in the third-place play-off, although the left-handed Japanese world No 6 had eliminated Wang from the women's singles.

Japan, the competition's second seeds, beat...

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