In the early morning of July 16th, Beijing time, the WTT Star Challenge continued in full swing. On this day, the singles competition was held in the quarter-finals. Six players from the National Table Tennis Team advanced to the top four singles, and the four male and female singles Each of them occupies 3 seats. Details are provided below.
In this Star Challenge, the National Table Tennis Team sent a total of 14 people to participate, including 7 people from the men's and women's teams to compete in the singles competition. In the top 8, only 7 people were left. The men's team were Ma Long , Liang Jingkun, and Wang Chuqin. and Lin Gaoyuan advanced to the top 8, Liu Dingshuo , Yuan Lizen and Xiang Peng 3 were eliminated; in the women's team, Sun Yingsha , Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi advanced to the top 8, Chen Meng retired due to injury, Kuaiman , Liu Weishan and Fan Siqi 3 were eliminated.
In the singles quarter-finals, let’s first look at the men’s singles. In the first half, Ma Long and Lin Gaoyuan ushered in a civil war. In the end, the two sides fought fiercely for 5 games. Malone won 3-2 (11-5, 8-11, 11 -5, 9-11, 11-9) narrowly defeated teammate Lin Gaoyuan. Wang Chuqin is 3-0 (11-8, 11-4, 12-10), the No. 5 seed in the tournament, Lin Yunru of Chinese Taipei . It is worth mentioning that in the men’s singles 1/8 finals , Wang Chuqin eliminated the Brazilian player Hugo, the No. 3 seed in the tournament, with a score of 3-2. Wang Chuqin continuously eliminated high-ranking seed players, which is enough to show that his condition is very good.
In the second half of the men's singles, Liang Jingkun reversed Korean player Lin Jongxun 3-2 (13-11, 13-15, 4-11, 11-2, 11-3), and Sweden's Moregaard defeated 3-1 (11-5, 7-11, 14-12, 11-7) defeated Slovenia’s Darko. So far, all the top four men's singles have been announced, and the national table tennis team occupies 3 seats. The semi-final matchups are: Ma Long VS Wang Chuqin in the first half, Liang Jingkun VS Moregaard (Sweden) in the second half
Then we are watching the women's singles match, In the first half, Wang Yidi 3-0 (13-11, 11-6, 11-3) sealed Hong Kong player Du Kaiqin ; Japanese player Kasumi Ishikawa 3-2 (11-6, 11-7, 9 -11, 8-11, 11-8) defeated Brazilian player Bruna. In the second half, Sun Yingsha defeated Japanese player Hayata Hina 3-0 (13-11, 11-8, 11-6). The match between Wang Manyu and Japanese player Mima Ito is very interesting. The following is the detailed information of this match.
In the first game, Mima Ito took the lead 2-0. However, Wang Manyu quickly made adjustments and tied the score to 3-3. Wang Manyu scored 2 more points in a row, taking a 5-3 lead, and gradually occupied Taking the initiative, finally won the first victory 11-7, taking the lead with a big score of 1-0.
In the second game, Mima Ito still had a good start and took the lead 3-0. Wang Manyu struggled to catch up. In the middle of the game, Mima Ito was leading 7-4, and Wang Manyu tenaciously chased the score to 8-8. 8 draws, and then Mima Ito scored 2 points in a row to get two game points in the second game 10-8. Wang Manyu finally lost the second game 9-11 after recovering one game point. After the first two games of , the two sides were tied at 1-1.
In the third game, Wang Manyu was in a very passive situation, falling behind 1-9 at one point. Such a score difference was indeed very rare, which showed that Mima Ito was in very hot shape. In the end, Wang Manyu lost the third game 4-11. Game, fell to the edge of the cliff with 3 wins out of 5 games.
In the fourth game, Wang Manyu changed the slow situation in the previous three games and took the lead 3-1. After that, he continued to work hard and took the lead 9-3. Iteng Meicheng was very tenacious and scored 3 points in a row to tie the score. Chasing to 6-9, Wang Manyu still seized the opportunity and won the fourth game 11-7. After four games of , the two sides tied at 2-2 and entered the deciding game.
In the deciding game, Mima Ito still had a good start, taking a 2-0, 3-1, 5-2 lead. After that, the two sides exchanged positions. Wang Manyu scored 3 points in a row, strongly chasing the score to 5-5, and the game was stopped. Mima Ito.After returning from the timeout, the two sides fought to a 7-level tie. At the critical moment, Wang Manyu scored 2 points in a row and took a 9-7 lead. After that, both sides scored 1 point each. Wang Manyu got the two match points of the game 10-8. Ito Even though Meicheng saved a game point, Wang Manyu still seized the opportunity and won the deciding game 11-9, thus reversing Meicheng Ito with a big score of 3-2 and advancing to the women's singles semi-finals. In this game, Mima Ito was in a very hot state and caused a lot of trouble for Wang Manyu.
So far, all the top four women's singles have been announced, and the national table tennis team also occupies 3 seats. The semi-final matchups are: Wang Yidi VS Ishikawa Kasumi (Japan) in the first half, and Wang Manyu VS Sun Yingsha in the second half. Among them, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha will face off again, which is very worth looking forward to!
