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Wang Liqin poses on the podium after winning the men’s table tennis singles event at the 10th Chinese National Games in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, yesterday. — Xinhua

Zhu Yingwen celebrates after winning the women’s 100m freesytle in the pool in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, yesterday. Shanghai made a clean sweep of the medals in the event.—Xinhua

World champion paddler, Shanghai's Wang Liqin, grabbed his second National Games gold medal in as many days yesterday with a landslide victory over PLA's Wang Hao in the men's singles final.
In the pool, Zhu Yingwen led her Shanghai teammates for a clean sweep of the top three places in the women's swimming 100m freestyle event.
Wang Liqin finished the match at Wuxi Stadium in less than 30 minutes and walked away with a 11-3, 11-1, 11-6, 11-5 victory, leaving the other Wang dumbfounded by his determined strokes and unlikely retrieves.
The trophy provided a perfect follow up to Wang's victory in the men's doubles event final on Monday and was the 14th gold medal for Shanghai at the ongoing games.
Shanghai is now in the ninth place in the medals standings. Host Jiangsu Province is right at the top with 44 gold medals.
The two Wangs last met at the Athens Olympic semifinal last year where Wang Liqin lost to his national teammate 1-4. Wang Hao eventually fell to South Korea's Rye Seung-min in the final.
But this time round, it was Wang Hao who was at the receiving end of a relentless attack launched by world No. 1. The PLA paddler did not get a point in the opening set until Wang Liqin sent a stroke wide to make it 7-1. The near-perfect performance continued in the second and third set.
Wang Hao attempted to fight back in the early part of the fourth, leveling the scoreline at 5-5 but the collapse seemed inevitable as Wang Liqin played some of the best pingpong to conclude an already eventful season on a high note.
"It might look a bit abnormal with my opponent winning just 15 points throughout the match but I entered the game with full confidence and was determined to sweep it away," said Wang Liqin, who won the men's singles event at the World Table Tennis Championships in May in front of home fans.
"This has been a perfect season for me with two major titles. My next goal will be winning the men's singles title at the Beijing Olympiad. That's the only thing left for me."
Wang took part in both the 2000 and 2004 Olympics but could only manage the men's doubles title in Sydney.

 Peng Luyang (left) and Li Xiaoxia.-Xinhua

In the earlier women's doubles final, Shandong's Peng Luyang/Li Xiaoxia defeated Tianjin's Li Nan/Tang Na 4-1 (12-10, 11-13, 11-5, 11-3, 11-7), Xinhua news agency reported.
Peng, 20, and Li, 17, were trailing 6-0 and 10-7 in the first set in the women's doubles final, but the young sensations clawed back to win 12-10.
The Shandong pair repeated the trend when they trailed at 9-3 in the second set, but this time their 9-9 tie resulted in a 11-13 loss.
The third set was the turning point as Peng/Li, who led Shandong to the second place at the team event, found their rhythm again to win the next three sets and the final.
In Nanjing, Shanghai's Zhu Yingwen led her teammates for a clean sweep in the women's swimming 100m freestyle.
Zhu clocked 54.03 seconds for the gold, 0.02 seconds outside of the national record. Xu Yanwei and Pang Jiaying finished second and third at 54.15 and 54.55, respectively.