Hong Kong head coach Li Ching remained positive despite the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams exiting the World Team Table Tennis Championship without a medal.<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s team lost in the quarter-finals 3-1 to Germany on Thursday after the men were eliminated in the second round also by the Germans earlier in the week.<\/p>\n
With the Asian Games looming, Li was happy to take away the positives from the tournament in London, especially for the women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were very close to a medal with this young team,\u201d Li said. \u201cThe coaches did the preparations they could, and the players played the best they could.<\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially in the previous two rounds [when we beat Wales and Chinese Taipei 3-2], each player contributed a point to a massive team win.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the women, Doo Hoi-kem was the first to go up against Germany, but the veteran threw away a two-game lead to lose 3-2 (10-12, 8-11, 11-8, 11-9, 11-4) to Sabine Winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong head coach Li Ching remained positive despite the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams exiting the World Team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[202297,202302,78915,170,3448,85,46,202295,202298,202296,442,202299,202301,105,202300,112985,78916,202294],"class_list":["post-431385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-baldwin-chan-ho-wah","tag-chinese-taipei","tag-doo-hoi-kem","tag-germany","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-ittf","tag-lam-siu-hang","tag-li-ching","tag-london","tag-ng-wing-lam","tag-ovo-wembley-arena","tag-sports","tag-su-tsz-tung","tag-table-tennis","tag-wong-chun-ting","tag-world-team-table-tennis-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}