On the evening of January 20, the WTT Macau Championship ended the last two matches of the first round of mixed doubles, and the two world champion combinations Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen and Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Manyu won and advanced. Mixed doubles round of 8 is all out, and the matchup is followed!
As the mixed doubles champion of the World Championships, Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen is the ace of national table tennis mixed doubles, is a winning general, but unfortunately encountered Waterloo at the Tokyo Olympic Games, only won the mixed doubles silver medal, suffered a major setback. Fortunately, in the National Games, the Xinwen combination attacked again and won the mixed doubles gold medal as desired.
After the warm-up match of the World Table Tennis Championships, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen left the arena for 2 months, and this time they returned to the field to show good form. In the singles match, Liu Shiwen defeated the new main player Wang Yidi, and Xu Xin also reversed the elimination of his brother Zhao Zihao, and both advanced to the singles round of 8. Coming to the mixed doubles arena, Xu Xin/ Liu Shiwen eliminated Xu Yingbin / Liu Weishan 3-1 to advance to the quarterfinals.
In the first set, Xu Xin/ Liu Shiwen started 5-1 and won easily 11-4; in the second set, Xu Yingbin / Liu Weishan improved, chased 8 draws in the backward situation, continued to take points after the suspension, and won back a set at 11-9;
In the third set, Xu Yingbin/Liu Weishan led 4-2, Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen chased the score and rebounded, and won 3 innings at 10-7, taking 11-9, with a total score of 2-1 again; in the fourth set, Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen locked in the win 11-8.
In another match, Lin Gaoyuan / Wang Manyu eliminated Zhao Zihao / Liu Fei 3-1. As a relatively strong mixed doubles combination, Lin Gaoyuan / Wang Manyu was suddenly split before the start of the Houston World Table Tennis Championships and played with The American team. As a result, Lin Gaoyuan took Zhang An to get the mixed doubles bronze medal, but Wang Manyu did not win the mixed doubles medal. Now, the two are back-paired, and they are also heading for the mixed doubles championship!
At this point, all the top 8 mixed doubles have been produced, and the matching situation is: Wang Chuqin/ Sun Yingsha vs Fan Zhendong / Ku Man, Xiang Peng / Zhang Rui vs Xue Fei / Wang Xiaotong; Yu Ziyang / Chen Xingtong VS Lin Gaoyuan / Wang Manyu, Liang Jingkun / Chen Meng vs Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen.
The mixed doubles top 8 gathered 11 world champions, in terms of strength and tacit understanding, Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen, Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha, Lin Gaoyuan / Wang Manyu are the 3 pairs of world champions with the highest demand for the championship.
If the Xinwen combination can meet the mixed doubles final with the Shatou combination, this will be a head-on collision between the new and old World Championship champions, and it is likely to be a duel between the mixed doubles combinations of the two Olympic Games!