Courmayeur, Italy, 5 May 2002. Sometimes you can watch a player and you have this feeling that he knows that “this is his tournament”. It was like that with Peter KARLSSON (SWE) at the Italian Open, at least after he survived the first rounds.
Courmayeur, Italy, 5 May 2002. LIN Ling came to Italian Open as a Hong Kong player after changing from mainland China to Hong Kong. In her first tournament as a Hong Kong player she took home the title and a first prize of 10.000 US Dollars for Hong Kong.
Courmayeur, Italy, 5 May 2002. Hong Kong players seem to have a special taste for doubles. Hong Kong was represented in both men’s and women’s doubles finals on Sunday and even though the players are far from the world top on the singles ranking they play a world class doubles game. In Italy the result was one Hong Kong title.
Courmayeur, Italy, 5 May 2002. Swede Peter KARLSSON played a perfect match to oust CHANG Yen-Shu (TPE) and reach the final in men’s singles at the Italian Open.