More Ping Pong Prowess

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]ITTF: Kasumi Ishikawa Underlines Her Potential
Japan's fourteen year old Kasumi Ishikawa was the player to cause the major surprise in the Women's Singles event at the Volkswagen Open Japan in Chiba on Thursday 21st June 2007. The talented left hander beat Croatia's Sandra Paovic, the third highest World ranked player on duty in the qualification stage...The win over Sandra Paovic was notable in the fact that the Croatian is one of Europe's most improved players in recent months...more...

See also: Now It's Matsuken Ping Pong! and Japan's First World Champion.

[Greji]

[floatl][/floatl]ITTF: Kasumi Ishikawa Underlines Her Potential
Japan's fourteen year old Kasumi Ishikawa was the player to cause the major surprise in the Women's Singles event at the Volkswagen Open Japan in Chiba on Thursday 21st June 2007. The talented left hander beat Croatia's Sandra Paovic, the third highest World ranked player on duty in the qualification stage...The win over Sandra Paovic was notable in the fact that the Croatian is one of Europe's most improved players in recent months...more...

See also: Now It's Matsuken Ping Pong! and Japan's First World Champion.

Now that they have a class kid coming up to champion status, maybe we won't have to put up with screaming, ki'ai-ing and crying Ai-chan anymore!

[Doctor Stop]

[Behan]

I thought that Ai-chan's kiai's were annoying, too. Isn't that unsportsmanlike? I wonder if she was doing it to get under her opponents' skins? I'd complain to the refereee.

[Behan]

From today's online Japan Times:

Sunday, June 24, 2007


Fukuhara beaten in straight sets
CHIBA (Kyodo) Popular teenager Ai Fukuhara suffered a straight-sets loss to Athens Olympic gold medalist Wang Nan of China in the third round of the Ogimura Cup Japan Open women's singles tournament Saturday...

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