SAPPORO, Japan, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese men's curling team overcame Kazakhstan 12-1, winning their first match with ease at the Sapporo Winter Asian
Games here on Saturday.
China, silver medalist in the Pacific-Asia Championships in 2016, took the lead since the first end and enlarged it to 9-0 in the fifth. Kazakhstan earned
one point in the sixth before losing it 12-1.
"We are very proud and excited to be the first team competing at the Sapporo Asiad in our whole delegation," said Chinese first Zang Jialiang. "We had some
pressure for sure, but when the competition began, we just became totally
focused."
"We've been trained together for five years, and we knew each other quite well. Our aim here is trying our best in every match and I hope the best result
will come eventually," said the Chinese skipper Liu Rui, the fourth winner in
the Sochi Olympics in 2014.
"We established the curling team in 2003 and began to compete in Asia region in 2007. We don't have our own venue in our country, so the team took every
chance to practice and improve during every competition," said Victor G. Kim,
the chief coach and also skipper of Kazakhstan.
In the morning's other matches, host Japan beat Chinese Taipei 11-3, and South Korea outclassed Qatar 20-0.
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is expected to continue moderate growth and the inflation will rise to the Fed's
2 percent target.
"Our outlook anticipate a continued moderate growth trend, with some further strengthening in the labor market and an increase in inflation over the medium
term toward our objective of 2 percent," Dudley said in his opening remarks at a
press briefing on Thursday.
His remarks suggested that the central bank was on track to gradually tighten the monetary policy. Investors widely expected that the Fed would start to
reduce its balance sheet from September and might raise interest rate one more
time this year.
U.S. job markets have maintained solid growth since the recovery from the Great Recession, while the economy has grown at a modest rate of around 2
percent and the wage growth has also stuck to a moderate 2.5 percent.
Dudley said that the moderate economic and wage growth reflected in part that productivity growth has been sluggish compared to historical experiences.
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Caroline Wozniacki kept her title defense alive at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo on Thursday after eking out a 4-6, 6-1 nike air presto hombre baratas , 6-4 win over Shelby Rogers to secure a place in the quarterfinals.
The former world No. 1 trailed 0-3 in the decider before securing victory after toiling for more than two hours.
Pulling off an upset seemed on Rogers' mind as the American fended off three break points in the 10th game to clinch the first set.
Wozniacki wrestled back momentum in the second, converting two break points before firing back-to-back aces to force a decider.
Rogers raced to a 3-0 lead in the third set before Wozniacki staged a brilliant comeback, claiming six of the last seven games to advance to the next
round.
"I knew she has powerful strokes and a big serve. it definitely was not easy," Wozniacki said in a courtside interview. "I'm just happy to win this
one."
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Earlier, Barbora Strycova registered her first win over a top-10 player this year when the Czech edged out Britain's Johanna Konta 7-5, 7-6 (5).
Fourth seeded Konta dominated the early proceedings in her first meeting with Strycova and raced to a 3-0 lead before the Czech broke her back and went on to
claim the first set.
Konta's dominant backhand put her 5-4 ahead but the British No. 1 could not serve out the second set, allowing Strycova to force a tiebreak and eventually
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"I don't have any words to say because I'm very emotional and very happy that I won against Johanna," said the 31-year-old who meets Russian Anastasia
Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinal.
Ninth seed Caroline Garcia of France beat local favorite Kurumi Nara 6-1, 6-3 to set up a quarterfinal clash with Spanish world No. 1 Garbine Muguruza.
In Seoul nike air presto ultra flyknit baratas , South Korea, top seed Jelena Ostapenko dispatched Japanese rival Nao Hibino 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday to secure a
spot in the Korean Open quarterfinals, as she seeks to move up the world
ranking.
The French Open champion became the first Latvian to break into the WTA top 10 when she advanced into 10th place earlier this month and will now sail into
her seventh quarterfinals of the year.
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after her first-round match against Swede Johanna Larsson on Tuesday.
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