On January 20, the WTT Macau Championship ended the final match of the first round of women's singles, and Olympic champion Sun Yingsha defeated teammate He Zhuojia to successfully advance to the top 8 of women's singles. At this point, all the top 8 seats in the women's singles have been generated, and the matchup is released!
In 2021, Sun Yingsha can be called a super labor model of national table tennis. At the Tokyo Olympics, Sun Yingsha killed Ito Mimakoto twice, winning the Olympic singles runner-up and team championship. Coming to the Houston World Championships, Sun Yingsha reached the final in all three events and won 2 gold and 1 silver. In the Singapore World Cup, Sun Yingsha once again reached the final, and finally overcame the spell of runner-up and won the singles championship!
In this Macau competition, Sun Yingsha, who is both a women's singles and mixed doubles, is a favorite to win the championship. In the first round of mixed doubles, as the mixed doubles champion of the Xinke World Championships, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha played well, sweeping Ma Long/Qian Tianyi 3-0 to advance to the mixed doubles quarterfinals, and the next round will be against Fan Zhendong / Ku Man. Coming to the women's singles arena, Sun Yingsha faced He Zhuojia, who knew the roots, and won 3-0 against her opponent.
In the first set, the extremely familiar two sides fought fiercely in the first half, the battle was 6 draws, Sun Yingsha took 2 points to lead 8-6, He Zhuojia launched a sharp counterattack, took 4 consecutive points to win 10-8, won 2 innings, Sun Yingsha chased 10 draws, and then saved the third set point, 13-11;
He Zhuojia, who lost a good game, has lost momentum in the second set, Sun Yingsha is more and more courageous, winning 11-4 strongly, winning 2 consecutive sets, victory is in sight; in the third set, Sun Yingsha took an 8-6 lead, and after returning from the suspension, she scored consecutive points to lock in the victory 11-6;
Women's singles quarterfinals and matchups: Chen Meng vs Zhang Rui, Wang Manyu vs Chen Xingtong; Liu Shiwen vs Wang Xiaotong, Sun Yingsha vs Liu Weishan. In this round of competition, Wang Manyu and Chen Xingtong will launch a world championship battle, Wang Manyu is more outstanding, but Chen Xingtong is by no means an object that can be easily defeated.
Facing the young player Wang Xiaotong, Liu Shiwen has a greater chance of winning and is expected to reach the top 4! Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha also occupied obvious advantages.