Champion Feng Tianwei in winning start

GLASGOW: Reigning champion Feng Tianwei got off to a winning start in the Commonwealth Games women´s table tennis singles with a 4-0 win over Nigerian Cecilia Akpan.

Having already progressed through to the fourth round of the mixed doubles alongside Zhan Jian, Singapore´s world number four, Feng beat Akpan, ranked 320 in the world, 11-9, 11-7, 11-5, 11-4 in the second round.

Feng, 27, who has already won gold in the women´s team event, now faces Australia´s Zhenhua Dederko in the third round on Thursday, when she begins her women´s doubles campaign alongside Yu Mengyu.

Second seed Yu, ranked 10 in the world, needed five games to beat England´s Tin-Tin Ho, 15, while third seed Lin Ye won by the same margin against Megan Phillips of Wales, to progress to the third round. (AFP)