The WTT Macau Championship continues, with two high-profile singles matches this afternoon, with Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin, who took a break after last year's Shaanxi National Games, made their debuts back to the field. Liu Shiwen, who came first, won 3-1 against Wang Yidi with a quick entry into the state and a grasp of the key, and Xu Xin, who came on the scene later, won three consecutive sets to win 3-1 against Zhao Zihao in the case of losing one set first.
Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin competed in the Tokyo Olympics and the Shaanxi National Games last year. At the Tokyo Olympics, Xu Xin/ Liu Shiwen lost to the Japanese team of Hayabusa Mizutani / Mishimasa Ito in the mixed doubles final, missing the first Olympic gold medal in table tennis history. Subsequently, Liu Shiwen withdrew from the women's team competition due to the recurrence of old injuries, and Xu Xin won an Olympic team gold medal again. Later, at the National Games, the two teamed up to win the mixed doubles championship, and Liu Shiwen also defeated Chen Meng in the women's singles competition to win the third place. However, neither of them participated in the Houston World Table Tennis Championships in November, and in the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen won the mixed doubles championship, and Liu Shiwen also won the women's singles championship. After a period of rest, both returned to the WTT Macau Championship and will join forces in mixed doubles in addition to singles.
In today's match, Liu Shiwen took the lead in the singles arena, and her opponent in the first round was the powerful Wang Yidi. Wang Yidi began to exert his strength after last year's National Games, winning the women's singles third place at the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, and the world ranking also ranked among the top five in the world, and the strength should not be underestimated; and Liu Shiwen did not participate in the international singles competition for more than two years due to the impact of the elbow injury. In this game, Liu Shiwen started into a faster state, took a 6-2 lead, and won the first set 11-6; in the second set, Liu Shiwen scored 7 consecutive points to chase the score to 10 draws in the case of 3-10, but it was still a failure, wang Yidi won the game 12-10.
In the third set, the score between the two sides has been tight, Liu Shiwen grasped the key points, won 13-11, the big score 2-1 lead. In the fourth set, Wang Yidi, who fought backwaters, took the lead in getting the set point 10-7, Liu Shiwen chased back point by point in the case of falling behind, chased the score to 10 draws, and finally won another round 14-12 in the case of falling behind again, and defeated Wang Yidi 3-1 to enter the quarterfinals. Perhaps the first game to return to the field, Liu Shiwen played extra hard, the original pill head was scattered because of the force, and her red nail art was also very eye-catching. In the quarterfinals, Liu Shiwen will play against Wang Xiaotong.
Xu Xin appeared immediately after Liu Shiwen's match, and he and Zhao Zihao engaged in a straight-line battle, the two are not only teammates of the national team, but also teammates of the Shanghai team, and they are very familiar with each other. Xu Xin lost one set 8-11, and won three consecutive sets 11-3, 11-8, 11-3, and defeated Zhao Zihao 3-1 in a big score to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarter-finals, Xu Xin's opponent will be between Sun Wen and Xiang Peng. After the end of the singles match, at 19:45 tonight, Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen will play in the mixed doubles, and their first round opponent is Xu Yingbin / Liu Weishan.