Beijing time on November 28 news, the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, USA entered the fifth matchday. In the women's singles quarterfinals, Wang Manyu balanced the attack and defense in a Chinese derby, defeated teammate Chen Xingtong 4-0 to reach the semifinals, and the Chinese women's singles won the top four of the world table tennis championships for two consecutive years, locking in the championship and runner-up in advance. In the semifinals, Wang Manyu faced Chen Meng, and Sun Yingsha faced Wang Yidi.
Wang Manyu is the star of hope for Chinese women's table tennis and a young player who has risen in the past two years. Thanks to his outstanding performance in the domestic selection competition, Wang Manyu went to Tokyo with the team as a P card. In the Olympic arena, veteran Liu Shiwen lost her body after losing the championship in mixed doubles, and Wang Manyu was ordered to play well in the team competition, and together with Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, helped the Chinese team win the women's team gold medal and realize the Olympic championship dream.
At the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Manyu had a first-round bye, defeated South Korea's Choi Hyo-joo 4-0 in the second round, eliminated Sweden's Bergstrom 4-0 in the third round, and won France's Yuan Jiannan 4-1 in the last round. Chen Xingtong participated in the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time, and eliminated Nova, Zhu Chengzhu, Shan Xiaona and Zheng Yijing on the way to the top eight.
Wang Manyu and Chen Xingtong are very familiar with each other, there are not too many secrets in technology and tactics, and it is crucial to play on the spot. In the first game, Chen Xingtong played proactively, with more ways to shoot and hold hands, and took the lead 5-2. Passively, Wang Manyu is not impatient, patiently looks for opportunities in the standoff, and tenaciously chases the score to 9 draws. At the moment of glue, Chen Xingtong's mentality changed, there was a mistake in the backhand, and Wang Manyu came out on top 11-9.
In the second set of the game, Chen Xingtong did not want to show weakness, the opening and Wang Manyu tightly bit the score, Wang Manyu forehand attack power is more powerful, the connection between the forehand and backhand is more in place, Chen Xingtong briefly glued after the increase in errors, Wang Manyu opened the score 9-6. At the end of the game, Wang Manyu took advantage of the victory to pursue and went to the next city at 11-7.
In the third game, Chen Xingtong was not confident enough, it was originally a luck ball to wipe the net, but he did not grasp it, and was won by Wang Manyu for the first point. In the following game, Chen Xingtong moved left and right, and the technical and tactical changes were varied, but Wang Manyu's defense was like a wall, and the latter was far ahead of 6-1.
Unable to attack for a long time, Chen Xingtong was slightly impatient, his own mistakes increased, Wang Manyu played steadily, the forehand and backhand attacks were intertwined, playing a 4-0 shockwave, this round was won by a 11-1 disparity, and the score was 3-0 to get the match point.
In the fourth game, Chen Xingtong broke the boat and tried to make changes in tactics, and after scoring the first point, she threw her fists and roared to release her emotions. Wang Manyu made a mistake in receiving the ball, and Chen Xingtong took a 3-2 lead. After that, the two sides played very glue, the score alternately rose, and Chen Xingtong took the lead 7-5. After that, Wang Manyu lost two points in a row after 10-8, and after 11 draws, Wang Manyu withstood the pressure and locked up the victory 13-11, thus defeating Chen Xingtong 4-0 and advancing to the final four.