Sun reaches second round, Harimoto survives scare at WTT China Smash-Xinhua
BEIJING, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- China's Sun Yingsha advanced to the women's singles second round with a 3-1 victory over Chinese Taipei's Yeh Yi-Tian, while men's third seed Tomokazu Harimoto rallied from two games down to beat Denmark's Jonathan Groth 3-2 at the 2026 WTT China Smash on Monday. Playing her first match since the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, Sun took the opening game 11-5 before going neck-and-neck with the 18-year-old in a tightly contested second, which Yeh won 12-10 to level the match. After requesting a TTR early in the third game that overturned a service fault for hiding the ball, Sun took control and won the next two games 11-6, 11-6 to reach the last 32. "From the Asian Games to the WTT China Smash, everyone needs some time for adjustment, on energy reservation and fi...