Tokyo Olympics: China's Chen Meng Hits Back At Critics After Winning Table Tennis Gold

Tokyo Olympics: China's Chen Meng hoped a start of "my own era" after winning the women's singles table tennis gold at the Games.

China's Chen Meng hopes this will be the start of "my own era" after she defeated compatriot Sun Yingsha to win the women's singles table tennis title at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday. In a battle between the top two seeds and team-mates, Chen lost the first game before prevailing 9-11, 11-6, 11-4, 5-11, 11-4, 11-9 to grab her first Games gold. Chen and Sun embraced at the end and then together unfurled a large Chinese flag. China, who have now won 29 of the 34 table tennis golds in the history of the Olympics, will add one more on Friday -- the men's final is another all-Chinese clash between the top two seeds. On Monday, China were stunned by the hosts in the final of the mixed doubles, Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito's victory bringing Japan their first-ever Olympic table tennis title. But China, who swept all the golds in the sport at the previous three Olympics, took over the men's and women's singles draws on Thursday to reassert their table tennis supremacy.