WUXI Uomo Nike HyperAdapt 1.0 Nere Bianche Italia , East China, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Japanese teenager Miu Hirano was too excited to stand on her feet after beating world No. 1 Ding Ning of China to reach the women's singles semifinals here Friday at the Asian Table Tennis Championships.
The 17-year-old sensation came back from two sets down and rallied to win the fourth 16-14 to drug the match into full sets.
Trailing 3-1 in the decisive fifth set, Hirano managed to tie 4-4 and never looked back, nailing two match points on 10-8 before wrapping it up 3-11, 12-14, 11-9, 16-14, 12-10.
It has been the first time that the world No. 11 beat a Chinese paddler. Last October, Hirano became the first non-Chinese World Cup winner on the absence of the whole Chinese team.
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"Trailing early in the match, I just told myself, OK, you were losing it, so why not going all out," she added.
Asked about her long term target as a professional table tennis player, Hirano said she wants an Olympic gold medal at the coming 2020 Games in Tokyo.
"Gold of singles or team event? Well, I want both," she added.
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Grand Slam winner and top seed here, Ding Ning, admitted that she'd underestimated the teenage girl.
"I thought I was the better player on court, but the rival's performance, especially her receiving, came much better than my imagination.
"She'd nothing to lose and she got lucky. I was just not able to win at the end of the day," said the 26-year-old.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Prices of Vietnamese rice for export hit three-year high record in July, ranging between 420- 465 U.S. dollars per ton (the highest is for 5-percent-broken rice) , reported the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) on its website on Thursday.
In July Nike React Hyperdunk Italia , Vietnam exported 615,844 tons of rice, earning 264,607 million U.S. dollars (FOB price), with the average price of 429.67 U.S. dollars per ton, up 6.16 U.S. dollarston compared to the previous month.
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China was Vietnam's biggest rice importer in July, accounting for 32.15 percent of the market share, followed by the Philippines with 30.75 percent.
The association attributed the rising prices to the sharply increasing price in the local market, low rice inventory and big purchase by the local rice exporters to complete their signed contracts with foreign partners.
According to VFA, the country is expected to export 1.9 million tons of rice in the third quarter and 1.4 million tons in the fourth quarter of this year. Plus the exported amounts of over 3 million tons in the first half, this year's total export volume would be around 6.3 million tons. This excludes the cross-border rice exports to China which are not yet calculated, said the association.
by Nemanja Cabric, Wang Huijuan
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55-year-old Mohammad, a businessman from the South of Syria, is one among 11 people waiting for a bus to take them to the Hungarian border.
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