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在本月15日至18日舉行的第49屆瑞銀香港高爾夫球公開賽將會是歷年來選手陣容最強勁的一屆。

選手中有多位贏得大滿貫的高手，包括美國大師賽的冠軍華亞(Mike Weir)、美國公開賽的古信(Retief Goosen)、韓國名將崔京周(K.J. Choi)、澳洲的艾波比等。當然，去年的冠軍人馬萊拉(José Manuel Lara)以及已進佔瑞銀亞巡賽獎金榜榜首來自中國的梁文沖。如果梁文沖能在這次比賽有好的表現，他將會成為首個獲得瑞銀亞巡賽獎金皇的中國球手。

眾多球手們接受採訪時都帶著自信來迎接這個週末的挑戰，如古信所說：「我對這球場的記憶良好．．．我希望我是在比賽場內其他球手的假想敵！」去年的冠軍萊拉：「我帶著信心來到這裏，我知道如何應付這個球場，但並不意味著我就會打得很好．．．如果我的推桿仍然不錯的話，這週將會有好成績。」

這一屆瑞銀香港高爾夫球公開賽也為球迷帶來另一位特別嘉賓，他是在香港哥爾夫球會獲得三次冠軍的高球界名人湯臣(Peter Thomson)，湯臣也是五次贏得英國公開賽的冠軍人馬，是高爾夫名人堂的殿堂級名師，他將會在這週末與球迷共同欣賞這國際盛事。

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Hong Kong, November 11, 2007 - Jia Tian and Jie Wang ended the 2007 FIVB Beach Volleyball campaign like the Chinese pair started their international season last May in Shanghai with a gold medal after the world’s No. 2-ranked team captured the US$30,000 Crocodile Hong Kong Beach Festival 2007 here Sunday at Victoria Park.

The top-seeded Tian and Wang scored a 21-18 and 21-16 win in 39 minutes over second-seeded Chinese rivals Chen Xue and Xi Zhang in the Crocodile Hong Kong Beach Festival 2007 gold medal match to share the $5,000 first-place prize while netting their fourth international Beach Volleyball title.

The victory was Tian and Wang’s 13th FIVB win in 17 matches against their younger Chinese rivals. The previous 16 matches between the two teams were on the SWATCH-FIVB World Tour where Xue and Zhang had won two of the previous three gold medal contests with Tian and Wang during the 2006 season.

While Tian and Wang were undefeated in the competition with five wins, including a 21-18 and 21-12 semi-final victory earlier Sunday over 10th-seeded Jarunee Sannok and Usa Tenpaksee of Thailand in 35 minutes, Xue and Zhang had to win three elimination matches to reach the Crocodile Hong Kong Beach Festival 2007 “final four” where the pair split $4,000 for their silver medal finish.

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