Vietnam made history on Saturday with a 3-1 upset over defending champions Singapore in the men's team table tennis final at the ongoing 2017 Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 2017) in Malaysia, snatching the country's first-ever gold in the event. The Vietnamese got off to a slow start when Dinh Quang Linh lost 1-3 to Singapore's Gao Ning in the opener. Gao Ning is the current top-ranked Southeast Asian male table tennis player, at No. 46. However, the 2015 silver medalists made a swift recovery when Nguyen Anh Tu beat Singapore's Clarence Chew 3-1 in the second tie. The night's biggest surprise, however, went to Vietnam's doubles side Doan Ba Tuan Anh/Dinh Quang Linh, who recovered from a 2-1 lead to secure a come-from-behind 3-2 win over Singapore's Gao Ning/Pang Xue Jie in the third tie. The Singaporean pair were the standing champions of the men's doubles event at SEA Games 2017. Tu sealed Vietnam's victory with a convincing 3-0 whitewash of Pang Xue Jie in the final tie. The result broke Singapore's dominance in the event, ending a gold-medal streak that began in 2003, with the only exception being in 2011, when the team event was not contested. "This… Read full this story
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