On January 19, Beijing time, the WTT Macau Championships officially started today, this competition is the home of the national table tennis, except for the men's singles 2, women's singles 3, mixed doubles 1 foreign association players, the others are all Members of the Chinese Table Tennis Team, all the main members of the national table tennis team zhu Yuling is absent, the luxury of its lineup can be imagined.
The competition lasted for five match days, with only three events set up, each with only 16 seats, so there was still plenty of time. From the current schedule, we can also see that the matches are carried out one after another, mixed with men's and women's singles and mixed doubles, and for the fans, they finally don't have to make choices and want to see which game to watch.
The first round of national table tennis will be 6 foreign games, all of which are concentrated to today, after a day of competition, 7 national table tennis players have all advanced, while these foreign association players are all eliminated. The first game of this competition is the "foreign war", Wang Xiaotong against the chipper Li Qian, and finally after 5 rounds of war, Wang Xiaotong did not have a soft hand in the decisive score of the decider, 11:9, 3:2 promotion. Although she did not win, the veteran Li Qian still showed her tenacious fighting spirit on the field.
Xiang Xiaopeng/Zhang Rui's mixed doubles, Liu Weishan's women's singles, and Lin Gaoyuan's men's singles were all relatively relaxed, all of which were 3:0 or 3:1 victories over opponents to advance. Chen Meng, the last woman in the women's singles, also ushered in a vicious battle, she played against the powerful Hong Kong team member Du Kaixuan.
At the beginning of the game, Chen Meng quickly entered the state, making a 5:1 start, the trailing Du Kaixuan strengthened his attack to chase to 7:7, and at the end of the game, Chen Meng improved the quality of the veneer, scoring consecutive points and winning the first set 11:8. In the second set, Chen Meng made more mistakes, and Du Kaixuan seized the opportunity to win back a set 11:7.
In the third set, Chen Meng scored steadily, leading to 7:4 and then took the set point 10:7, Du Kaixuan chased back 1 point Marlene called a timeout, but after the suspension came back, Du Kaixuan chased 2 points in a row, fortunately, the key point Chen Meng stabilized, 12:10 narrowly won. In the fourth set, Chen Meng started unfavorably, but also chased from 3:7 to 9:9, but in the end he was equalized by Du Kaixuan 13:11.
The decisive game Chen Meng was like a bamboo, 6:1 after the start of the direct 11:2 end of the battle, the smoothness of this round and the previous few innings is really a bit of a contrast, but Chen Meng is good in that there is no danger to successfully advance to the top 8.
The last mixed doubles game was the national table tennis "civil war", "Shatou" combination Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha against the "money now" combination Ma Long / Qian Tianyi (the title given to them by the fans), and finally Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha were not soft at all, directly 3:0 (11:8, 11:5, 11:9) swept Ma Long and Qian Tianyi to advance to the top 8.
The last men's singles debut was Fan Zhendong, against China's Macau player Zhang Zicheng, the result was also no accident, Fan Zhendong played steadily, 3:0 (11:9, 11:9, 11:6) victory over the opponent to successfully advance to the next round. His mixed doubles match with Kuman also qualified. The remaining quarterfinals tomorrow will also take over, looking forward to it!
Results on 19 January
Wang Xiaotong 3-2 Li Qian
Lin Shidong 3-2 weeks Qihao
Fan Zhendong /Ku Man 3-1 Yuan Licen / Wang Yidi
Xiang Xiaopeng / Zhang Rui 3-1 Lin Zhaoheng / Du Kaixuan
Liu Weishan 3-0 Li Jie
Wang Chuqin 3-0 Xue Fei
Zhang Rui 3-1 Liu Fei
Lin Gaoyuan 3-1 Lin Zhaoheng
Xue Fei / Wang Xiaotong 3-2 Zhou Qihao / He Zhuojia
Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha 3-0 Ma Long/Qian Tianyi
Chen Meng 3-2 Du Kaixuan
Fan Zhendong 3-0 Zhang Zicheng
Schedule on November 20
11:00 Wang Manyu vs Ku man
11:45 Yuan Lichen vs Xu Yingbin
12:30 Lin Shidong / Wang Tianyi vs Liang Jingkun / Chen Meng
13:15 Yu Ziyang / Chen Xingtong vs Sun Wen / Shi Xunyao
14:00 Liu Shiwen vs Wang Yidi
14:45 Zhao Zihao vs Xu Xin
17:30 Chen Xingtong vs Qian Tianyi
18:15 Xiang Peng vs Sun Wen
19:00 Zhao Zihao/Liu Fei vs Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Manyu
19:45 Xu Yingbin /Liu Weishan vs Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen
20:30 He Zhuojia vs Sun Yingsha
21:15 Liang Jingkun vs Ma Long