On the evening of January 19, 2022, Beijing time, the WTT Table Tennis Macau Championships continued, this appearance was the Chinese women's singles leader Chen Meng against Hong Kong's Du Kaixuan, the result of Which Chen Meng defeated Hong Kong's Du Kaixuan with a score of 3-2 by 11-8, 7-11, 12-10, 11-13 and 11-2.
Born in Hong Kong, China in 1996, Du Kaixuan is a relatively promising player. In the WTT World Cup in December 2021, he beat China's Wang Manyu.
In the first set, Du Kaixuan was a little difficult in facing Chen Meng's varied serve, and in the opening stage, Chen Mengjian played a 7-3 score. But then Du Kaixuan played a very tenacious side, chasing four points through a fight, and the score reached 7-7. Chen Meng then scored two consecutive points to overtake the score to 9-7. Chen Meng took the initiative through the serve, and then a strong dunk came to the match point, and was very calm in the handling of the last ball, and finally won the first set 11-8.
In the second game, in the confrontation of technology, the two can also form a certain tug-of-war, but Chen Meng's serve is indeed a great threat to Du Kaixuan. In this section, Chen Meng's play is not very good, and there are many mistakes. The two went from 1-1 to 5-5. After that, Du Kaixuan frequently slammed Chen Menglu, causing him a lot of trouble. Du Kaixuan also scored two consecutive points to extend the score to 7-5.
Chen Meng's serve was cracked by Du Kaixuan, and then a strong dunk changed the score to 10-6, and Du Kaixuan got the match point. Subsequently, Du Kaixuan called a timeout, and it can be seen that she is very cautious and hopes to win this game, under the premise of holding three match points, considering the opponent's ability, not a single point can be let go.
In the end, Du Kaixuan passed a successful timeout to hit the right side of the table with a serve that caused Chen Meng to make a mistake. Du Kaixuan rewrote the big score to a 1-1 draw.
At the beginning of the third set, Chen Meng fell behind 1-2, but then through a conversation of forehand pulling the ball, Chen Meng won, and the score of the two was tied to 2-2. Then, Chen Meng and Du Kaixuan came to another mutual slam from the far platform, which also ended with Chen Meng's victory and rewrote the score to 7-5. Although she was ahead, Chen Meng seemed very calm, and she couldn't see any waves in her beautiful little eyes. When the score came to 10-6, Chen Meng faced 4 innings points, all of which were lost, and Du Kaixuan rewrote the score to a 10-10 draw.
With a strong dunk from Chen Meng, he regained the upper peak and finally won the third set 12-10, and Chen Meng won this section with a thrill.
In the fourth set, Chen Meng's advantage did not seem to be obvious, there were two serve errors at the beginning of the game, and he fell behind 2-4, and then the score came to 7-4, Chen Meng had fallen behind by 3 points. When Du Kaixuan extended the score to 9-6, Chen Meng chased three points in a row.
But at the critical moment, Chen Meng made a mistake in receiving the ball and gave up the match point, and then Chen Meng scored another point to chase the score to 10-10 again. Chen Meng did not take advantage of today's backhand, and her backhand also became the main focus of Du Kaixuan's attack. Du Kaixuan once again won the set point 12-11, which was also her third set point in the quarter. In the end, it won the quarter 13-11, chasing the big score to a 2-2 draw.
In the tiebreaker of the fifth quarter, Chen Meng's two serves had some changes, and he scored 2 points by the way. After Du Kaixuan served the ball, Chen Meng chose to pull the attack with his backhand, causing Du Kaixuan to receive the ball wrongly, Chen Meng scored 2 more points, and the score came to 4-0. In the last quarter, Chen Menglai really played "fast and accurate" to find out the small climax of 5-0. And Du Kaixuan also fought back, and finally recovered 1 point.
Subsequently, Chen Meng rewrote the score to 7-1, and Du Kaixuan seemed to have collapsed a bit. When the score came to 9-2, Du Kaixuan's mistakes also began to increase. In the end, Chen Meng won the decider 11-2, defeated the powerful Du Kaixuan with an aggregate score of 3-2, and successfully entered the next round of knockout rounds.