Two more silver for Singapore
9th September, Hong Kong: Singapore had to be contended with another silver medal at the 22nd Asian Tenpin Bowling Championships after Chinese Taipei clinched the coveted Women’s Team gold and stunned Singapore and Korea. New Hui-Fen, Shayna Ng, Daphne Tan, Cherie Tan and Jazreel Tanm who had led the first block of 3 games yesterday, got off the second block with a consistent 1021 but saw their 106 pins cushion reduced to just 12 pins by Korea.
Coming across a tougher pair of lanes, the Singapore quintet managed only 980 in the fifth game and allowed Korea to take over the running as well as falling behind by 57 pins.
Chinese Taipei’s Chen Hsiu-Lan, Chang Yu-Hsuan, Pan Yu-Fen, Tsai Hsin-Yi and Wang Ya-Ting had made good progress with 1067 and 1068 to move above Philippines and Malaysia. The Taiwanese was 51 pins behind Korea and 108 pins behind Singapore.
Korea and Singapore were drawned into a nerve-wrecking final game together on the same pair of lanes while the Taiwanese were eight lanes away.
Chinese Taipei stunned the fancied Koreans and Singaporeans after posting another consistent 1056 and totaled 6116 to clinch the Team gold medal which they last won in Bangkok in 2004.Singapore out-paced Korea with 963 to win their second silver medal of the competition with 6056 while Korea managed only 946 to slip down to third with 6032 to settle for bronze. Philippines and China rounded out the top 5 ahead Australia and the disappointing Malaysia.
Cherie Tan rallied on in the Team event to post 1302 for a 5071 total in the All Events standings but was not good enough to topple overnight leader. Kim Moon-Jeong, who had won two gold medals, claimed her third with 5108.
Daphne Tan gave Singapore a second bronze medal after finishing third in the table with 5059 while Gye Min-Young missed the podium with 5040 and Singles gold medalist, Sin Li Jane of Malaysia rounding up the top 5.
New Hui-Fen and Jazreel Tan qualified for the Masters finals by finishing 10th and 14th positions with 4900 and 1107 respectively.
The top 16 women in the All Events standings qualified for the Masters finals. Korea and Singapore has 4 finalists each, Malaysia 3, China 2 while Australia, Japan and Chinese Taipei all have 1 each making up the 16.
The Masters is a Round-Robin Matchplay style finals contested over 8 matches in the first block and 7 matches plus a position round to determine the top 3 advancing to the stepladder finals.
Detailed scores: Women’s Team Block 2 | Women’s All Events | Photo Album.
Photos by Terence Yaw in Hong Kong.