Liu Shiwen's debut is perfect, she played the first women's singles match of the WTT Macau Championships, played the past heroic, facing the Houston World Table Tennis Championships women's singles runner-up and the World Cup finals women's singles runner-up Wang Yidi, Liu Shiwen was not optimistic about the outside world before the game, with a 3-1 (11-6/10-12/13-11/14-12) difficult victory, staged the return of the king, the biggest plus point of this game Liu Shiwen was not in the result of the victory, but saved 10 innings in the game. This spirit of never giving up is worth learning from the young players. Liu Shiwen's status online has also exacerbated the difficulty of choosing the lineup for the 2022 World Table Tennis Championships and Asian Games within the national table tennis.
Liu Shiwen is the oldest member of the active Chinese table tennis women's team, this year's 31-year-old veteran will start again in the Paris Olympic cycle, continue to compete in the national team, for the Beijing Olympic cycle in the national team is a little famous, perhaps the Olympic women's singles lineup is not willing, there is a heart to impact the Olympic women's singles qualification. As early as the Tokyo Olympics, Liu Shiwen withdrew from the women's team competition, and there was a outside world that Liu Shiwen's state had declined sharply and should not be selected for the Olympic team, but then at the National Games, Liu Shiwen showed her heroic posture again and proved her strength with a singles third place.
This match is the debut of Liu Shiwen after the National Games, and also the first battle to open the Olympic cycle in Paris, the opponent Wang Yidi is a young player who is thriving in the second half of 2021, in the World Championships, Lianke Hayata Hina and Ito Mimachi cleared the obstacles for the national table tennis championship, and is also the fourth main force after Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha. Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong are seen as the two most promising Chinese women's teams to play at the 2022 World Championships and Asian Games, and also indicate that the two have moved from quasi-main to main level. However, if Wang Yidi wants to qualify for the World Table Tennis Championships, he still has to pass Liu Shiwen.
In the first round of this game, Liu Shiwen played very actively, using the speed to actively change the line, the backhand was as fast as a meteor, and the backhand large angle of the anti-pull played a great deterrent, Wang Yidi could not keep up with Liu Shiwen's rhythm and soon lost a round. In the second set, Wang Yidi improved the quality of the veneer and came to the set point at 10-3, the result was that Liu Shiwen was not moved, even if Wang Yidi called a timeout, it was useless, liu Shiwen saved 7 consecutive innings to chase 10-10, fortunately Wang Yidi did not continue sleepwalking, 12-10 difficult equalizer. In the third set, Liu Shiwen did not make the mistake of the previous set in the key score, and scored two consecutive points to lead 13-11. In the 4th set, Wang Yidi led all the way and won 10-7 innings, resulting in Liu Shiwen chasing points again, and successive forehand and backhand pressure was successful, recovering 3 innings points and eliminating Wang Yidi 14-12.
This game is not a simple game, but the competition between the new and old generations of the main force within the national table tennis, Liu Shiwen, who is not willing to withdraw from the main layer, finally won the victory, and also made the outside world realize that Wang Yidi took over too early, Liu Shiwen's strength still exists, and she is still one of the main candidates for the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships and the Hangzhou Asian Games.