The World Table Tennis Championships finally reached the semi-finals, starting with the mixed doubles semi-finals, against China's Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha and Taiwan's Lin Yunru/Zheng Yijing.
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Friends who are familiar with the international table tennis world should be very clear that the combination of Taiwan is not bad, and it is also the number one seed in this mixed doubles competition. Among them, Lin Yunru is the fourth place in the men's singles of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and our big boss Chu Qin even shouted directly on social media to ask Lin Yunru to point out the technique of receiving the ball and twisting it. However, the strength of our female player Sun Yingsha is stronger than Zheng Yijing, so overall, the two sides should be evenly matched, depending on who plays better.
The guessing edge of doubles is very important, generally the right side will choose to "catch the ball", this advantage is that on the one hand, you can use the characteristics of doubles, the serve is more active, on the other hand, you can arrange the order of receiving the ball according to your own preferences. That is, let the male player of the other side pick up the ball of the other male player, which will cause the female player of the other side to receive the ball of the male player of the other side in the first round, and the side will be more advantageous. Luckily, we guessed correctly, so we asked Wang Chuqin to pick up Lin Yunru's ball.
At the beginning of the first set, the two sides played a high level, and entered the state very quickly, but Lin Yunru / Zheng Yijing cooperated more skillfully, after all, it was just playing the Olympic Games, the score has been pressing us for 2 points, 8:7 lead, Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha grasped the key points, won 3 points in a row, and won the first set. Obviously, Zheng Yijing took Wang Chuqin's powerful arc and was a bit passive.
In the second set, Sun Yingsha received Lin Yunru's ball, and we were slightly disadvantaged. However, our tactical thinking is very clear, and the off-court coach Chen Xuan clearly wants Wang Chuqin to consciously defend Zheng Yijing's ball, which will cause difficulties for Lin Yunru to make up the board. When it was 6:6, Wang Chuqin made a mistake in the serve, and then was picked up by Lin Yunru to burst the ball and directly scored, instantly pulling the score apart, and finally, losing the second set at 7:11.
The third set started with another favorable round for us and started well. Lin Yunru and Zheng Yijing also made several consecutive mistakes, and the score suddenly came to 9:1, and the Shatou combination led by a big score. In the end, the set was won 11:7. The score came to 2:1, with the Shatou combination leading.
The game in the fourth set has been white-hot, the scores of both sides are very close, and the scenes of the four people pulling are endless, where is the mixed doubles, obviously two pairs of men's doubles in PK. From 3:3 to 9:9, at the critical moment, Wang Chuqin did not twist the ball, but split the long, actually lucky to wipe the edge, with this luck ball to get the key points, and finally won the fourth set 11:9, 3:1 victory over the opponent, into the final.
Judging from the overall competition, the Shatou combination entered the state quickly, was more excited, and had a strong desire to win the game, and it was reasonable to win in the end. In this way, they will enter the mixed doubles final of the World Table Tennis Championships, and the opponents will be Lin Gaoyuan/Zhang Benzhi and Zhang Benzhi and/Hina Hayata, which will be held at 12:00 Beijing time, and everyone is welcome to watch at that time.