Shanghai pair Wang Liqin and Liu Shan won the last two sets to take the table tennis men's doubles gold medals in Wuxi yesterday, beating Guangdong's Ma Lin and Zhang Chao 4-3 at the 10th Chinese National Games, being held in eastern Jiangsu Province.

World table tennis champion Wang Liqin (right) and Liu Shan of Shanghai react after beating Ma Lin and Zhang Chao of Guangdong Province in the men’s doubles final at the 10th Chinese National Games in Jiangsu Province yesterday. — Xinhua

Wang/Liu won the final 12-10, 7-11, 12-14, 11-4, 9-11, 13-11, 11-8.
Wang, the world No. 1 singles player, entered the finals for the second consecutive night. He lost the mixed doubles on Sunday to Lia-oning's Xu Hui/Guo Yue 4-0.
The pairs fought out a 2-2 tie in the first four sets before Ma/Zhang took the driving seat with a 11-9 win on the fifth.
Wang, who competed in all four events for men - team, mixed doubles, doubles and singles, evened the game again on the third set point on 13-11.
Leading 7-2 in the decisive seventh set, Wang netted twice in a row to let Ma/Zhang chase back at 9-8.
"Wang gave me a lot of inspiration to fight to the last," Liu said.
Zhang struck wide off the table on 10-8 and Wang took his first gold medal in the competition with a middle-range striker.
"The first set was the most important," Wang said. "We were lucky on the 7th with a net winner and two unforced errors from them."
The city also shone in the pool as the Shanghai girls clinched the women's 4x200m free relay, which was their second gold medal after they scooped the women's 4x100m free relay title as well.

Shanghai’s Xu Yanwei in action in the women’s 4x200 meters relay. Her team won the event. — Xinhua

Shanghai finished first with a time of 8:1.36:4 - 05 seconds ahead of Zhejiang. Shan-dong was third in 8:09.12.
Shanghai has been a dominant force in the event with a mixture of China's established veterans like Pang Jiaying, Xu Yanwei as well as Zhu Yingwen.
"Our target was gold. We were confident of our team, so there was no pressure for us. We did a good job," said 21-year-old Xu, four gold medal winner at the National Games.
Xu had brushed the 4x200m freestyle relay world record in Moscow's short course swimming championship in 2002 and also broke the Asian record in 4x100 medley relay at the Busan Asian Games.
The podium finishers all met their requirements out of the race.
"Shanghai is too strong overall and we did not expect to match them. The top three were just the way we had expected," said Yangyu, 200m freestyle gold winner from Zhejiang Province.
In another event, Beijing's Chen Zuo swam to an Asian record in the men's 100m freestyle event.
Chen, 23, was timed 49.56 seconds, beating Huang Shaohua from Guangdong and Cai Li from Zhejiang to the second and third place.
Liaoning's Liu Weijia set a national record to win the men's 200m breaststroke.
Meanwhile, World No.1 Zhang Yining of Beijing won the last three sets to beat world grand prix winner Wang Nan of Liaoning 4-3 in the wom-en's singles table tennis final.
Zhang, who lost 2-3 to Wang at the last games in 2001, got her revenge with a 6-11, 11-6, 8-11, 6-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-9 victory.
In shooting, Shanghai's Xu Hong took the silver medal with 677.9 points in the men's running target.
Host Jiangsu tops the medals table with Shanghai in 12th place with 11 golds.