Hong Kong became the first outfit to beat a top four seeded team at the Liebherr World Team Championships in Moscow, when in Group C of the women’s competition on Wednesday 26th May 2010, they recorded a three matches to one victory over third seeds, Korea.

Backbone of the Hong Kong victory was Tie Yana who underlined her ability to compete against defensive players.

Adopting tactics of patience, prepared to play for long points, she defeated Park Mi Young in five games in the second contest of the duel, before bringing matters to a conclusion by posting a four games success against Kim Kyung Ah.

The further win for Hong Kong came in the third match of the duel with Dang Ye Seo accounting for Zhang Rui in four games; the success recorded by Korea was secured by Kim Kyung Ah.

In the opening match of the fixture she neat Jiang Huajun in five games.

Hong Kong now leads the group with eight points, one point ahead of Korea with Hungary and North Korea locked in third place with six points.

Ukraine is in fifth place with five points one place and one point ahead of France.

Hungary having lost to both Korea and Hong Kong recovered to beat North Korea by three matches to one in a vital contest to keep hopes of a top 12 place alive.

The one North Korean win came from Han Hye Song against Krisztina Toth in the second match of the contest after Petra Lovas had defeated Kim Jong. Next in action, Georgina Pota gave Hungary the advantage by overcoming Kim Hye Song in five games with Krisztina Toth concluding matters by defeating Kim Jong.

Meanwhile in the one remaining fixture in the group Ukraine beat France by three matches to one.

Tetyana Sorochynska was the backbone of Ukraine’s success beating both Audrey Mattenet and by the very narrowest of margins, Carole Grundisch.

The one further win for Ukraine came from Ganna Gapanova who overcame Aurore Dessaint whilst for France Carole Grundisch defeated Margaryta Pesotska.

A surprise in Group C but there were no surprises in Group D.

Represented by Sayaka Hirano, Ai Fukuhara and Kasumi Ishikawa, Japan defeated the Romanian outfit of Daniela Dodean, Elizabeta Samara and Bernadette Szocs by three matches to nil with Chinese Taipei and Russia recording victories by the same margin.

Chinese Taipei with Huang Yi-Hua, Cheng I-Ching and Lee I-Chen in action defeated Slovakia’s Viera Marcekova, Barbora Balazova and Luisa Truksova whilst Belarus fielding the trio of Viktoria Pavlovich, Veronika Pavlovich and Alexandra Privalova handed out the same punishment to the host nation team of Anastasia Voronova, Anna Tikhomirova and Yana Noskova.

Japan occupies first place in the group with a miaximum eight points follwed by Chinese Taipei with seven points, Romania and Belarus share third place with six poinbts each, Russia is in fifth place with five points ahead of Slovakia with four points.