On January 20th, the WTT Macau Championship launched a mixed doubles focus showdown, the world champion combination Liang Jingkun / Chen Meng ushered in the debut, hard to fight 5 rounds to narrowly defeat Lin Shidong / Wang Tianyi, advanced to the mixed doubles top 8, Liu Guoliang, Qin Zhijian are on the spot to watch!
As the world number one in women's table tennis, Chen Meng's singles strength is superior, his doubles ability is relatively weak, and he has not yet won too many heavy doubles championships, and Liang Jingkun is basically the same. Therefore, the mixed doubles combination of Chen Meng and Liang Jingkun is very famous, but compared with Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Manyu, who have a more tacit understanding, it is not a favorite to win the championship.
And only 16-year-old Lin Shidong is talented and is a key training object for men's table tennis, he eliminated the famous Zhou Qihao in the first round of singles competition, breaking a small cold. Wang Tianyi's appearance is quite high, and she is regarded by many fans as the first beauty of national table tennis, but her ball skills still need to be greatly improved, and this time she came to Macao only to participate in the mixed doubles competition, and there is no singles qualification.
Whether it is Chen Meng, or Liang Jingkun, they are the main force, the playing style is full of violent aesthetics, and the personal strength is stronger than the young players on the opposite side, but the two people playing mixed doubles is obviously not so strong, and finally played 5 rounds, only to eliminate Lin Shidong / Wang Tianyi 3-2, avoiding the collapse and loss. At present, Chen Meng has won both lines, and singles and mixed doubles have broken into the top 8.
In the first set, Liang Jingkun / Chen Meng quickly took a 9-3 lead, taking the lead 11-7; in the second set, Liang Jingkun / Chen Meng led 9-6, Lin Shidong / Wang Tianyi was unable to resist, and lost 7-11;
In the third set, Lin Shidong / Wang Tianyi reversed the decline and won 6 innings 10-4, Liang Jingkun / Chen Meng appeared to be a little impatient, there were many mistakes, Lin Shidong / Wang Tianyi won back a set at 11-5; in the fourth set, Lin Shidong / Wang Tianyi was still struggling to fight back, leading 7-5, 10-6 again won 4 innings, 11-7 consecutively won 2 sets;
In the fifth set, Liang Jingkun/Chen Meng stabilized their positions and led 6-2, and finally locked in the victory 11-4.
So far, there have been 5 pairs of mixed doubles finals, they are: Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, Fan Zhendong/Ku Man, Liang Jingkun/Chen Meng, Xiang Peng/Zhang Rui, Xue Fei/Wang Xiaotong.