On October 21, Beijing time, the WTT Macau Championship has arrived on the third day of the competition. Today, the men's and women's singles will be decided to play the top 8.
The 16th finals were unpopular in the Swedish player Karsson and Nigerian strong player Aruna both were swept by American teenager Kanek and Swedish teenager Karlberg 0-3 respectively. In addition, the No. 3 seed of women's No. 3 and national table tennis player Wang Manyu were in poor condition and eventually lost to the French player 2-3; the No. 4 seed of men's No. 4 seed of Japanese table tennis player Zhang Benzhihe 1-3 lost to Swedish player Falke again "game one round".
The other two players of the national table tennis team and are also the top seeds of the event, Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha , both eliminated Huang Zhenting and Bruna Takahashi successfully advanced 3-0 respectively. In the end, a total of 8 Chinese table tennis players advanced to the top 16, namely, male Fan Zhendong, Ma Long , Wang Chuqin , Liang Jingkun, female Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng , Wang Yidi , Chen Xingtong .
Today's schedule has started. The first game was the "civil war" of the Japanese table tennis team. In the end, Ito Mima 3-1 eliminated Kihara Miyu was the first to advance to the women's singles quarterfinals. In the second game, the national table tennis player Liang Jingkun appeared. He faced Swedish rising star Alex Lebron. In the 16th final, Alex eliminated the Korean table tennis "No. 1" Zhang Yuzhen , with great strength.
At the beginning of the game, Alex took the lead in attacking and won the first goal 11:9. After adjustments in the first game, Liang Jingkun quickly took the initiative in the second game and won the game 11:4. In the third game, the two sides fought fiercely, and Liang Jingkun finally won 11:9, leading 2-1 with a big score.
In the fourth game, Liang Jingkun was a little disconnected at the beginning, while Alex seized the opportunity to widen the gap to 9:3. He thought the game would soon enter the decisive game, but it was not. Liang Jingkun ushered in a small climax, and he chased for 3 points in a row, forcing his opponent to call a timeout. After returning from the timeout, Liang Jingkun continued to chase points, tied 9:9 and got the match point 10:9. As a result, Alex, who lost points in succession, did not collapse. He stabilized his position and saved the game 12:10.
decisive game, Alex started the lead again, and Liang Jingkun followed closely behind, finally tied the score 9:9 and won the match point 10:9. But like the previous game, Liang Jingkun still failed to reverse the score and finally lost the last game 10:12, while Alex advanced to the men's singles quarterfinals 3-2.
I have to say that this French young player is really good and can be regarded as a "big dark horse" in this competition. In the next round, he will face the winner between Lin Yunru and and Pukal. I wonder if he can beat him to the end?
October 21 Schedule (single 1/8 finals)
10:00 Ito Mima 3-1 Miyu Kihara
10:35 Liang Jingkun 2-3 Alex
11:10 Meisharif vs Ishikawa Kasumi
11:45 Karlberg vs Falk
12:20 Matrova vs Zheng Yijing
12:55 Moregod vs Wang Yang
13:30 Shan Xiaona vs Wang Yidi
14:05 Pukal vs s Lin Yunru
14:40 Yuan Jianan vs Chen Siyu
15:15 Francesca vs Dako
18:30 Tian Zhixi vs Chen Xingtong
19:05 Wang Chuqin vs Ocharov
19:40 Sun Yingsha vs Yang Xiaoxin
20:15 Fan Zhendong vs Karnak
20:50 Szokos vs Chen Meng
21:25 Qiu Dang vs Ma Long
