On November 12, Beijing time, the national table tennis 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships warm-up matchup ended all the matches of the first matchday, and there have been 3 world champions who have lost, namely Sun Yingsha, Chen Xingtong, and Yu Ziyang, but the first two were lost to male players in the "gender war", and Yu Ziyang was defeated by Xu Haidong, a post-00s straight-shooting youngster.
At present, veterans Ma Long and Xu Xin have both appeared and won, but the former almost lost to the young general Liu Yebo. Another Olympic champion, Liu Shiwen, will officially debut today (November 13) and play against young player Qin Yuxuan in the women's singles competition, which is worth paying attention to!
See below for details of the game and the latest match schedule.
The men's singles is the highlight of this warm-up competition, with a total of 32 athletes participating, and it is a one-field knockout match, and the competition is very fierce. Among them, Ma Long played extremely dangerously, 1-3 behind the three consecutive sets to reverse the young player Liu Yebo, while Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin defeated Chen Yuanyu and Xie Congfan with 4-1 and 4-0 scores respectively, and also advanced to the round of 16 stage.
Some of the more surprising matches were the 4th seeded Zhao Zihao's 2-4 defeat to Zeng Beixun, the world champion Yu Ziyang lost 2-4 to Xu Haidong, and the results of the rest of the duels were generally in line with everyone's strength comparison.
The following is the full list of the men's singles round of 16 - the first half: Fan Zhendong, Zhou Kai, Lin Shidong, Yuan Licen, Xu Chenhao, Yan Sheng, Yu Heyi, Zeng Beixun; the second half: Ma Long, Quan Kaiyuan, Xu Haidong, Sun Wen, Xue Fei, Xiang Peng, Liang Yufeng, Xu Xin.
Next, these athletes will be in the 1/8 final, of which the Olympic champions Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin and Quan Kaiyuan, Zhou Kai, Liang Yufeng's battle is undoubtedly the most eye-catching, especially Ma Long's current state is not very good, almost out of the "round trip", the urgent need to adjust as soon as possible is.
The singles of the women's team are divided into two parts, one is the duel between normal female players, and the other is the confrontation between male and female athletes, of which Sun Yingsha and Chen Xingtong lost 3-4 to the male sharpshooter Wang Chence and the men's straight-ahead rubber fast attacker Yan Sheng after 7 innings.
As for the normal women's singles competition, there was no cold door, the world table tennis singles main force Wang Manyu and Chen Meng were 4-0 sweeps of the opponents Yang Yiyun (chipper), Qian Tianyi (world table tennis women's doubles player), playing very stable. And Sun Yingsha and Chen Xingtong's words can play with male players to the decider is already very good, although the defeat is still rong.
The doubles competition is currently also divided into two parts, one is women's doubles vs women's doubles, the other is women's doubles VS mixed doubles, the coaching staff still hopes to increase the training difficulty of women's teams by introducing male players.
However, unlike singles, the "gender war" in doubles did not have male players to laugh to the end, because the women's doubles combination Chen Meng/Qian Tianyi, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu all defeated the mixed doubles combination, defeating Xiang Peng/Ku Man, Cao Wei/Sun Mingyang with scores of 3-0 and 3-2 respectively, and successfully fighting for the female athletes.
According to the arrangement, today will be the birth of men's singles round of 8 and 4, and the women's team players will continue to compete with each other and with the male team athletes. In particular, it is worth mentioning that Liu Shiwen will also be put into battle, and this will be her first return to the field since the end of the National Games, which naturally attracts much attention and looks forward to her playing well.
So what other wonderful showdowns will take place today? Will there be any unpopular and dark horses? Let's wait and see: Come on, guys!