Yesterday, the "WTT Macau Championship 2021 China Star" officially kicked off the curtain, the national table tennis players will win, the women's singles Chinese players won the top 8, mixed doubles Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha defeated Ma Long / Qian Tianyi combination, advanced to the top 8, please listen to the reporter Shen Tong's report:
The first leg of the 2022 national table tennis competition "WTT Macau Championship 2021 China Star" entered the first day of competition yesterday, in the most concerned mixed doubles competition, the new World Table Tennis Champion Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha defeated the Ma Long / Qian Tianyi combination 3-0, advanced to the top 8, the first time to play in the international competition, after the game, the national table tennis captain Ma Long still fully affirmed Qian Tianyi's performance, "Qian Tianyi's play is a little better than when she usually practices in the team, because she is more focused, Coupled with this atmosphere on the field, it is conducive to her play, she is also a very good young player in the women's team, and there will be many opportunities in the future. I think in fact, we played well in this game today, but we didn't take advantage of good opportunities on some key goals, and the overall ability of the other side is really above us. ”
Wang Chuqin believes that the two are still fully prepared for difficulties before the game, "First of all, the opponent strength of the first game is very strong, I don't think we have any advantages, the two of us are also prepared for difficulties, and on the field is to limit the play of Brother Long more." ”
Sun Yingsha said that the tacit understanding between the two has improved: "Before Wang Chuqin, the two of us have been pairing and mixing doubles, and our tacit understanding, play and connection are becoming more and more stable, and I hope that we can make greater progress and improvement in every game." ”
Chen Meng, who ranked no. 1 in the women's singles world, eliminated Hong Kong's Du Kaixuan 3-2, but after the game, Chen Meng said that the first game was still a bit tight, "Today's first game, the two people are a little tight, and there is no game for a while, and it is also a process of adaptation." ”
And Du Kaixuan believes that her failure to bite the score in the fifth set is the main reason for the loss, "In the fifth set, she accelerated the rhythm of the attack, a little beyond my expectations, the front start did not hold, the score was not easy to play as soon as it was opened." ”
On the first day of the men's singles competition, 16-year-old Lin Shidong won two consecutive sets in a 1-2 behind, reversing the elimination of Zhou Qihao. After the game, Lin Shidong believed that although he won the first set, the offensive end of the second and third innings was still a little anxious, "The second and third innings were too many unnecessarily wrong, a little anxious, always wanted to shoot to death, the fourth innings adjusted themselves back, or wanted to go to the stage first, a point to play, the game of their own serve and holding stage used more, the first three boards are still a little worse." ”
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Wang Chuqin defeated Xue Fei in three straight sets, Lin Gaoyuan defeated Hong Kong's Lin Zhaoheng 3-1, and fan Zhendong, the top seed of the tournament, also defeated the host Zhang Zicheng 3-0 more easily.