Singapore beats Malaysia to take women’s table tennis team gold at Commonwealth Games

SINGAPORE: Singapore clinched the women’s table tennis team precious metal at the Commonwealth Online games on Monday (Aug 1) after beating Malaysia 3-0 within the final.

This is Singapore’s first gold medal of the 2022 Games plus means the team recaptured the gold medal that evaded them in 2018 when they were beaten by India in the final.

Singapore beat Australia 3-0 in the semi-finals on Sunday, while Malaysia edged past Wales 3-2.

Within the opening doubles, Zhou Jingyi and Zeng Jian dropped the first game, before storming back in convincing style to take the tie 7-11, 11-4, 11-6, 11-5.