The first day of the ITTF Women's Table Tennis World Cup has started. After 8 months of silence in the ITTF, it is exciting to finally return. The first to be staged was the 1/8 finals. Mima Ito, Meng Chen, Yingsha Sun and others appeared one after another. After 8 battles, all the top 8 have been produced.
Singapore’s world champion Feng Tianwei was upset, and was eliminated 4-2 by American Zhang An after six hard games. The "one round tour" ended this year's battle.
Feng Tianwei is an athlete that old fans are very familiar with. She was once a Chinese athlete. Later, she went away to realize the dream of a world championship. At the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championship, the Singapore women's team made a blockbuster and beat the national table tennis team to win the gold medal. At that time Feng Tianwei Winning Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen made great contributions and became the number one opponent of the Chinese team. Last year, they also swept Chen Meng 4-0, which is indeed not easy.
Zhang An is a rising star in the American table tennis world. Last year, she defeated Miu Hirano in the World Cup and reached the semi-finals. Unfortunately, she lost consecutively without a medal. At that time, she lost to the third or fourth place. Feng Tianwei, so today's game can be called her "revenge battle".
took the lead earlier in the match between Mima Ito against Tian Zhixi and Du Kaixin at the next table against Chen Siyu.
From the perspective of paper strength alone, it is not difficult for Mima Ito to defeat Tian Zhixi. The two met in the 2019 T2 Diamond Tournament. Although Tian Zhixi, known as the giant killer, once defeated Chen Meng upset, it was also occasional. In the face of Mima Ito, she ate a lot of serve.
Ito Mima is clearly prepared this time. In addition to the previous weird serve, four new serves have been added, which makes people uncertain about which spin. Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha have to be careful. Mima Ito lost a game first and then won 4 games in a row and turned to the top 8.
The overall strength of Chen Siyu and Du Kaiyan at the next table is not much different. The game is very stalemate. Chen Siyu fought hard in 7 games and finally won 4-3 narrowly to enter the top 8.
next staged the national table tennis demon king Sun Yingsha and Diaz duel, the next table Ishikawa Jiachun and Xu Xiaoyuan fought.
National Table Tennis Demon King Sun Yingsha is also participating in the World Cup for the first time. For such a world competition, Sun Yingsha wants to seize the opportunity, but also has to play down one after another. The strength of the two is not at a high level, but Sun Yingsha is often easy to relax after a big lead, and instead gives Diaz a chance. Refusing to reverse, Sun Yingsha defeated Diaz 4-1 to enter the quarterfinals. Z1z
, Ishikawa Jiachun and Xu Xiaoyuan at the next table, the two Japanese and Korean face value competitions, cut the ball without any difficulty for Ishikawa Jiachun, directly swept into the top 8 with a 4-0 sweep, Xu Xiaoyuan defeated.
Next is the German Chinese player Han Ying against Polkanova, and Chen Meng against Szokos at the next table.
Han Ying swept Tian Zhixi 4-0 in the group stage. Recently, she has been in training at home. Facing the European table tennis sister Polkanova, Han Ying also fought hard in 7 games and finally beaten 4-3 by a narrow margin.
As for Chen Meng, the number one player in the women's table tennis team this time is to sign. There is no difficulty in the players that will face. Of course, the premise is that she is prepared to play normally. In the face of Szokos, who played the role of Romania, Chen Meng blasted 4-0 in only 23 minutes and scored 11-1 in a single game. Szokos mentality collapsed. The last two matches of
were Zhang An and Feng Tianwei, Zheng Yijing and Wu Yue.
Zhang An, a Chinese American player, became famous in the Women's Table Tennis World Cup. Last season, he defeated Miyu Hirano upset and defeated Feng Tianwei 4-2. His strength has indeed grown a lot;
Zheng Yijing and Wu In Yue's game, there is also a big gap in strength, so Zheng Yijing's promotion is not a big problem, with a big score of 4-0 and sweeping into the top 8.
3 4-0, 2 4-1, 1 4-2 and 2 4-3, and now all the top 8 are produced. Women's singles quarter-finals showdown:
Chen Siyu vs. Ito Mima;
Sun Yingsha vs. Ishikawa Kasumi;
Chen Meng vs. Zhang An;
Han Ying vs. Zheng Yijing.
