Halfway through the first round of mixed doubles at the WTT Macau Championships, the national table tennis team had already won the top 4 seats in the competition in advance, and in the just-concluded match, the national table tennis "Liangchen Beauty" combination Liang Jingkun / Chen Meng defeated the young combination Lin Shidong / Wang Tianyi after 5 rounds of battle to nearly beat the young combination Lin Shidong / Wang Tianyi. Chen Meng showed a wise side in the game, and a slashing ball in the passive holding process in the first set disrupted the opponent's rhythm and scored, which was a very amazing one.
This time, the national table tennis team sent all the main forces in the mixed doubles event, except for the fixed partners Liu Shiwen / Xu Xin, Sun Yingsha / Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan / Wang Manyu, the rest are temporary partners. Chen Meng, the world's No. 1 women's singles Olympic champion, partnered with Liang Jingkun, the world's No. 8 men's singles adept, and the two were also named "Liangchen Beauty" by fans, and their opponents were national table tennis teenager Lin Shidong / Wang Tianyi, Lin Shidong defeated Zhou Qihao, the main force participating in the Men's Singles World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, in the first round of men's singles, and Wang Tianyi had the reputation of national table tennis appearance.
In the 1st set, Chen Meng/Liang Jingkun entered the game faster, trying to make a good start to suppress the fighting spirit of the young teammates, although it was a double-right pairing, but Chen Meng and Liang Jingkun had strong singles ability, and the score quickly opened, from 5-1 to 8-3, at this time Lin Shidong/Wang Tianyi occupied the advantage of the initiative to attack in the next goal, seeing that the trend had gone, Chen Mengqing slashed a beat in a hurry, and the result was that the young player was eager to succeed, and made a strong mistake in one shot, so that the two world champions combined continued to expand the score. This point shows that the veteran's experience in handling difficult balls is comprehensive enough. Despite saving three consecutive innings at the end of the inning, the two youngsters still lost the first set 7-11.
Innings 2 Lin Shidong / Wang Tianyi began to sweep away the haze of the previous game's defeat, the momentum of the rainbow continuous forehand force pulled through the defensive scores of the two veterans, 4-2 lead, but then Chen Meng / Liang Jingkun was still firmly in control of the rhythm of the game, did not give the opponent Lin Shidong / Wang Tianyi the slightest chance to lead, scored 8-5 consecutively to overtake, Chen Meng / Liang Jingkun two people in the single board bat quality is very high, forcing the two youngsters to connect too late, there are many mistakes in haste, this round "good day beauty" The duo again played 11-7 to take a 2-0 lead.
Lin Shidong / Wang Tianyi, who began a backwater battle in the 3rd set, gradually began to find a feel, the two young players strengthened the connection between the near platform and the competition for the first three boards, trying to avoid retreating to the middle and far platform to reduce the speed, and after the two people with obvious results pulled back a set at 11-5, they continued to expand the results in the 4th set, using the rapid connection to suppress the rotation of the two veterans, and dragged the game to the decider 11-7.
The 5th set returned to the situation of the 1st set, the two veterans seized the opportunity of the young player who wanted to win and was afraid of losing, anxious to burst the cold, the opening game was to reduce the number of mistakes in the standoff, enhance the quality of the pull, the score was getting bigger and bigger, Chen Meng/Liang Jingkun won 11-4 to avoid the embarrassment of the upset out. The opponents in the next round of "Liangchen Beauty" are most likely Liu Shiwen/Xu Xin, the 2019 World Table Tennis Champion and the Runner-up of the Tokyo Olympics.