On 20 January, the WTT Macau Championship entered its second matchday. In today's first game, Olympic champion Wang Manyu made her New Year debut, she defeated her little sister Ku Man to break into the women's singles quarterfinals.
In 2021, Wang Manyu made an important breakthrough in his career. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, Wang Manyu seized the opportunity of Liu Shiwen's withdrawal due to injury, participated in the team competition as a substitute, and won the Olympic team championship with Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha. Wang Manyu then won the gold medal in the singles of the National Games and the Houston World Table Tennis Championships. However, in the finale of the World Cup in Singapore, Wang Manyu was tragically upset and overturned, and was eliminated by Du Kaixuan.
Entering 2022, Wang Manyu naturally wants to start a new year with a championship. In this Macau match, in addition to participating in the women's singles, Wang Manyu will also partner Lin Gaoyuan to play in the mixed doubles competition. In the first round of singles matches, Wang Manyu faced the talented Ku Man and won 3 consecutive sets after losing one set, completing a strong reversal 3-1!
In the first set, Ku Man started 3-0, Wang Manyu chased 4 points to win 4-3, the two sides then fell into a fight, fighting to 9 draws, Ku Man even took 2 points, 11-9 first, Wang Manyu made many mistakes;
In the second set, the double open set was still very exciting, you came and went to carry out a multi-shot confrontation, the two sides fought to 4 draws, Wang Manyu led 6-4, Ku Man chased to 6 draws, 8-9, Wang Manyu came back from a suspension and scored through a wonderful confrontation, to win back a set at 11-8, Ku Man stood unsteadily, kneeling on the ground;
In the third set, Wang Manyu, who was in a state of open, completely released himself and led 5-2, Ku Man was already powerless to stop Wang Manyu's attack at this time, 3-8 behind, Wang Manyu won 2 consecutive sets 11-4; in the fourth set, Wang Manyu locked up the victory 11-9.
At present, 5 women's table tennis players have broken into the top 8 of women's singles, they are: Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Xiaotong, Liu Weishan, Zhang Rui. Liu Shiwen will play against Wang Yidi, staging a strong dialogue, while Chen Xingtong and Sun Yingsha will also play in the subsequent women's singles competitions.
Ku Man is only 17 years old, is a good seedling in the new generation of women's table tennis, and has beaten Chen Meng before. As a left-handed player, Ku Man is also trained by the national table tennis key, and she can take the lead in winning the next set against Wang Manyu, although she has lost Yu Rong. Ku Man also partnered Fan Zhendong in the mixed doubles, and has now reached the top 8, and the next round opponent is the champion Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha.