The World Games boules competition got underway in a humid 228 Memorial Park yesterday with a number of Taiwanese athletes in action.

In the first matches of the day, Taiwan’s men’s duo Chen Hung-wen and Sun Chia-yi got off to a good start against their French opponents and took a 5-0 lead, only to lose 10-7.

Later on, Chen and Sun lost 13-0 to Thailand, before finishing off the day with a 13-6 victory over Israel.

Meanwhile, in their women’s doubles opening fixture Chen Szu-an and Yang Tai-hua were on the end of a 13-1 drubbing by a Thai pairing. Chen and Yang later lost 13-3 to France and also 13-2 to Spain, before drawing 12-12 with Canada in their final match.

2009 World Games Petanque results

Rank by Gold	NOC - Country	Men				Women				Mixed				Total				Rank by Total
		G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T
1	FRA - France	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	1
2	THA - Thailand	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	1
3	BEL - Belgium	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3
4	ISR - Israel	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3

Invitational Sports not included.

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