The Tribune

CARY, N.C. (AP) -- Americans Timothy Wang and Lily Zhang made the final day of the North American table tennis qualifier a good one for their country. Wang and Zhang claimed the last two singles spots in the Olympics with victories Sunday. Wang earned the final men's berth in this summer's games by beating countryman Barney Reed in five games in the semifinals of the third men's tournament. Zhang then beat Canada's Anqi Luo in a five-game women's final for a spot in London. The 15-year-old Zhang joined Ariel Hsing -- her teammate and friend from the San Francisco Bay area who earned her spot Friday -- as American women qualifying for the Olympics. Zhang said her first competitive match was against Hsing when they were the only two girls entered in the under-10 class of a tournament. Olympic berths for three men and two women were on the line during three days this weekend at the community center in this Raleigh suburb. The other women's berth had been claimed by Canada's Zhang Mo, who won last year's Pan-American Games. The third men's spot had to go to an American because each national Olympic committee is limited to two players per gender in singles and the first two qualifiers -- Andre Ho and Pierre-Luc Hinse -- were Canadians. Since the other semifinal consisted of two players from Canada, the Wang-Reed semifinal became a play-in match for a spot in London.