On the afternoon of January 20, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Macau Tournament continued, the two world champions Ziyang and Chen Xingtong appeared on the stage, and Sun Wen and Shi Xunyao began to duel, resulting in Yu Ziyang / Chen Xingtong fighting a vicious game for 4 rounds, refusing to be upset, and successfully eliminating the opponent to advance with a big score of 3-1.
At present, the mixed doubles final eight list of the Macau Tournament has been out of the sixth, including Ma Long, many good players have been out of the project, the competition is becoming more and more fierce, it is indeed the world's highest level of table tennis confrontation!
Yu Ziyang and Chen Xingtong are among the lower-ranked figures in the national table tennis world championships, the former completely fell behind after "lying down" the World Cup men's team gold medal in 2018, and the latter was also marginalized for three years after winning the 2018 Team World Cup, and did not return to the ranks of the top five main players of the Houston World Table Tennis Championships until 2021.
But just as the so-called skinny camel is bigger than the horse, compared with the above two players, Sun Wen and Shi Xunyao have no results, but they have also created good results in domestic and foreign competitions, especially Sun Wen once hung Zhang Benzhihe 4-0, and also won the Olympic champion Xu Xin, with a strong explosive strength, on the singles now Yu Ziyang may not be able to win him, but the doubles words are another story.
After the start of the game, due to the average quality of Shi Xunyao's attack, coupled with the fact that she and Sun Wen were two right-handed and the running position was not very smooth (Yu Ziyang was left-handed, Chen Xingtong was right-handed), so she quickly fell into passivity, losing the first set 5-11. In the second set, Yu Ziyang/Chen Xingtong did not grasp the key points, and was chased by the opponent 13-11, and Sun Wen's veneer quality posed a greater threat to them.
In the third set, Yu Ziyang/Chen Xingtong regained morale and quickly won 11-4, showing their superiority in technology and running position. In the fourth set, Sun Wen / Shi Xunyao fought backwaters, and the result was still an 8-11 defeat, which lost the entire game and did not qualify for the top eight in the mixed doubles: tried their best, there was indeed a gap.
As mentioned earlier, the mixed doubles quarterfinals of the Macau Tournament have been born for the most part, and then Yu Ziyang/Chen Xingtong will face Liang Jingkun/Chen Meng, while Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha's opponents are Fan Zhendong/Kuman, Xiang Peng/Zhang Rui will play against Xue Fei/Wang Xiaotong, and then it depends on whether Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen and other combinations can qualify.
So which athletes will fall into the last two quarter-finals? The answer will be revealed this evening, so let's wait and see: Come on, guys!