The WTT Macau Championships at the Macau Towers Coliseum have just entered their second matchday, and the national table tennis has already evolved the competition into an intra-team practice tournament in advance. Mixed doubles first-round world champion duo Chen Xingtong / Yu Ziyang defeated Sun Wen / Shi Xunyao to advance to the quarterfinals 3-1 (11-5/ 11-13/ 11-4/ 11-8). There are two factors for the victory of Yu Ziyang/Chen Xingtong in this race, one is the smooth running position between left and right, and the other is to pay attention to reducing self-loss and controlling mistakes to a minimum. Although the two young generals sun wen / Shi Xunyao, who are also from Jiangsu, have fought many times, they are slightly less stable and unfortunately lost.
Yu Ziyang and Chen Xingtong are both world champions. Among them, Yu Ziyang was one of the champions of the 2018 World Cup team competition, and together with Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Lin Gaoyuan and Xu Xin, he won the championship, and defeated Mizutani Hayabusa at the 2014 Japan Open to win the men's singles title, and became the youngest men's singles champion on the tour at that time. Chen Xingtong won the women's team championship with Zhu Yuling, Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and Wang Manyu in the 2018 World Cup team competition, and won the women's singles championship in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria in 2019. Chen Xingtong/ Yu Ziyang's opponents Sun Wen / Shi Xunyao are both from Jiangsu team, Sun Wen made a name for himself by beating Zhang Benzhihe in the 2019 Open, and Shi Xunyao had unlimited potential to win the World Youth Championship.
The first game of the game began with Chen Xingtong's serve, Sun Wen / Shi Xunyao began to actively attack, and strive to start to give the two world champions a downhill, but unfortunately the mistake could not be effectively controlled, forming an embarrassment of not being able to score, the score has always been Yu Ziyang / Chen Xingtong leading, into the end of the set is still Sun Wen / Shi Xunyao's mistake to send points too much, the constant attack of the out of bounds ball let the opponent Yu Ziyang / Chen Xingtong easily win the first set 11-5. In the second set, Chen Xingtong/Yu Ziyang was a stable output in terms of articulation and veneer quality and rhythm of possession, leading 4-1 from the opening set, but Sun Wen/Shi Xunyao paid attention to reducing active mistakes, the score was tied and the stalemate with his teammates was 10-10, and Sun Wen successfully equalized 13-11 in the key points.
In the 3rd set, Chen Xingtong/Yu Ziyang was tightly controlled in the serve and serve, and had the upper hand in the first three boards of the big short ball, Shi Xunyao/Sun Wen had the strength to play the advantage of the back course, the score continued to open, and the two world champions took a 2-1 lead with an 11-4 disparity. Shi Xunyao / Sun Wen, who fought backwater in the 4th set, began to adhere to the fighting tactics, twisting and tearing quickly with the backhand, forehand sideways, insisting that the ball was introduced as soon as it was released to seize the initiative, but unfortunately, in the case of leading by one or two points in the first half of the set, the central inning was quickly overwhelmed by mistakes, and finally Chen Xingtong /Yu Ziyang won the whole game with a more stable and smooth cooperation 11-8.
In this game, the Jiangsu combination Sun Wen / Shi Xunyao has more than enough hard work but lack of strategy, although there is a beautiful high-quality confrontation score, but the mistakes have buried the advantages accumulated before, and the other two people's double-right combination and the opponent Chen Xingtong / Yu Ziyang one left and one right matching, there is indeed a passive running position, congratulations to the world champion group into the mixed doubles top 8.