China claims 5th straight women's title at table tennis team worlds

CHENGDU, China, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- China won its fifth consecutive women's teams title after sweeping Japan 3-0 at the World Team Table Tennis Championships here on Saturday.

It was also a record-extending 22nd time for China to have lifted the Corbillon Cup in history.

In the two sides' fourth straight head-to-head in the final dating back to 2014, China enjoyed a wire-to-wire victory, as Olympic champio