On January 20, Beijing time, the second matchday of the WTT Macau Championships began, the first match was a women's singles event, by the National Games World Table Tennis Double Women's Singles Champion Wang Manyu against the 17-year-old young player Ku Man, who is the new future star of the national table tennis women's team, not long ago in the World Youth Championships women's singles final defeated Japan's Kihara Miyu, Ku Man won the World Youth Championships women's singles championship.
In the first set of the game, Wang Manyu fell into a bitter battle, Ku Man continued to steal the backhand straight line score, Wang Manyu did not respond in time, the score of the innings has been very sticky, playing 7-7 after 8-8, and then played 9-9, the first set of the two sides into a stalemate. Kuman scored the first set point with a scoring net, and finally Kuman won the first set 11-9, leading 1-0.
In the second set, Kuman still took the lead and played a 3-1 start, but Wang Manyu quickly adjusted, took the initiative to attack and scored continuously, and soon reversed the score to 6-4, but Kuman did not mess up, and hit two long balls in a row to score, chasing a 6-6 draw, and once again fell into a stalemate. At the critical moment, Wang Manyu showed a strong demeanor, three consecutive forehand attacks directly scored, the key round after the score was 9-8, Wang Manyu and Ku Man man played a dozen consecutive shots against each other, Wang Manyu scored better, and finally Wang Manyu won the second set 11-8, and the big score chased to a 1-1 draw.
Entering the third set, Wang Manyu took the initiative to play a backhand attack as soon as he came up, which made Ku Man yu very uncomfortable, Wang Manyu took a 4-1 lead, at this time Wang Manyu began to occupy a clear advantage, opening the pull attack can also score frequently, the score was beaten to 6-3, and then directly hit 10-4, and finally Wang Manyu won the third set 11-4, the big score was 2-1, and Ku Man was in trouble.
The fourth set was Wang Manyu's match point game, but Ku Man did not intend to concede defeat in advance, took the initiative to change the rhythm, played close ball, Ku Man scored consecutive points, played a 4-1 start, but Wang Manyu still through excellent on-the-spot adjustment, through the serve round to take the initiative to return to the rhythm, constantly forehand pull attack, return to Ku Man a 4-0, the score was reversed to 5-4, forcing Ku Man to call a timeout to adjust. Through this suspension, Ku Man's mentality was flat, and he took the initiative to fight with Wang Manyu to attack, once playing the score to 8-8 draw, but unfortunately Wang Manyu handled the ball better at the key moment, and finally 11-9, Wang Manyu won the fourth set, and eliminated Ku Man 3-1 with a big score. Wang Manyu successfully advanced to the women's singles quarterfinals.
Wang Manyu is the strongest player in the national table tennis women's team at present, and has won the women's singles championship of the National Games and the women's singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships, which is enough to reflect Wang Manyu's strength and have the opportunity to sit on the seat of the first sister of the national table tennis women's team. But before the World Cup finals, Wang Manyu was out of the cold in the first round and hurriedly ended his 2021 journey, so this Year's Macau Championship is a good time for Wang Manyu to find his state again. In this competition, Wang Manyu competed in the women's singles and mixed doubles events, promising to impact the two championships, of course, the women's singles champion will always be Wang Manyu's main battlefield, and winning the championship is the only goal of her current career height. The other two strong players of the national table tennis women's team, Chen Meng took the lead in entering the women's singles round of 8, and Sun Yingsha has not yet played the round of 16, these two are Wang Manyu's biggest women's singles opponents.
(Lin Xiaoxiang)