China maintained its dominance of the 48th World Table Tennis Championships by pocketing two more gold medals in Shanghai on Thursday.

Olympic gold medallist Zhang Yining beat compatriot Guo Yan 4-2 to take the women's singles title, while the Kong Linghui/Wang Hao pair took out the men's doubles by demolishing Germany's Timo Boll and Christian Suss 4-1.

In beating her Beijing teammate Guo, world No 1 Zhang realized her Grand Slam dream by adding the world champion title to her Olympic and World Cup trophies.

But Zhang barely has time to celebrate as she will partner Wang Nan in the women's doubles semi-finals early today.

"I could only enjoy the victory for a while due to tomorrow's doubles match," said Zhang. "After stepping down from the podium, everything starts from the beginning."

She becomes China's third female Grand Slam winner, following table tennis legend Deng Yaping and former World No 1 Wang Nan.

China's Guo Yue and Hong Kong's Lin Ling shared the bronze.

In the men's doubles finals earlier in the day, Kong and Wang, losing finalists in Paris at the last world championships two years ago, never looked troubled against the ninth seeded German pair.

"This is the first major title that I have won since the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games," said the 30-year-old Kong. "We are more experienced than them and they made some mistakes during the match."

Two other Chinese pairs of Ma Lin/Chen Qi and Wang Liqin/Yan Sen jointly took out the bronze.

The defeat of the German duo left the only European medal hope the dark horse from Denmark -- Michael Maze, who beat China's Hao Shuai in a men's singles quarter-final yesterday afternoon.

"I have been feeling good about the high ball," said Maze. "I've been showing that I can beat the best Chinese, I will try to keep the momentum going into the next game. "

(China Daily May 6, 2005)