Leading Hong Kong fencer Ryan Choi Chun-yin got his new year off to a great start by pocketing silver at the FIE Men’s Foil World Cup in Paris on Saturday. Having won gold in another World Cup outing in Fukuoka in December, the world No 1 picked up where he left off by beating a pair of Japanese fencers in Yudai Nagano and Kazuki Iimura, as well as Russian Aleksandr Kerik, who was competing without a flag, to set up a quarter-final clash against Filippo Macchi of Italy. Reigning world champion...