China News Service Macao, January 23, 2019 Table tennis "WTT Macau Championship 2021 China Star" final staged on the 23rd. ST World Championship champion Wang Manyu won the women's singles title with a 4-0 victory over Liu Shiwen, while Wang Chuqin narrowly won the men's singles title in a seven-set battle with Lin Gaoyuan.
The Macau Championships is an important stop in the World Table Tennis Professional League (WTT) series of events, with a total of three events in men's and women's singles and mixed doubles, and the Chinese team sent a super strong lineup to participate, including seven athletes who participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games.
In the women's singles semifinals earlier in the day, Wang Manyu narrowly defeated Tokyo Olympic women's singles champion Chen Meng 4:3, and veteran Liu Shiwen also showed great strength, defeating the strength of sun Yingsha 4:2.
In the final, Wang Manyu was in a better state of competition, and he controlled the situation of the game almost the whole time. Liu Shiwen was slow and hot in the first set, and Wang Manyu took a 6-1 lead at the beginning of the game and quickly won 11-6. In the second set, Liu Shiwen's state recovered, and after the two sides fought to 7 draws, Liu Shiwen made successive mistakes, and Wang Manyu scored 4 consecutive points to win another city 11:7.
In the third set, Liu Shiwen still failed to turn the tide, losing another set at 7:11. The situation was in a stalemate in the crucial fourth set, and Wang Manyu achieved a reversal in the face of falling behind, winning 12:10 to sweep Liu Shiwen 4:0 to win the championship.
After winning the women's team championship on behalf of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Wang Manyu has maintained an excellent state, winning the National Games, World Championships and other major competitions in a row. Now that she has won the first women's singles championship in 2022, Wang Manyu said that every game in Macau is played with the mentality of fighting, and it will be more decisive in the handling of key points in the future.
In the men's singles event of this event, Ma Long and Fan Zhendong have been cold out one after another, making the final championship competition full of suspense. In the semifinals, Lin Gaoyuan and Wang Chuqin defeated Xu Yingbin and Xu Xinhuishi in the finals respectively. In the final, both were in excellent shape, with Wang Chuqin taking the next city 11:8 in the first set, Lin Gaoyuan pulling back a set 11:9 in the second set, and Wang Chuqin winning 11:9 in the third set, leading 2:1.
In the fourth set, the two sides competed more fiercely, many times into a draw, 10 draws after Lin Gaoyuan decisively started to attack, scored 2 consecutive points to win 12:10, the two sides of the big score battle to 2 draws; in the fifth set Lin Gaoyuan continued to lead, 11:9 to win another set; in the sixth set Lin Gaoyuan started to lead, but Wang Chuqin played very tenaciously, reversed 14:12, and equalized the big score again.
The competition on the crucial tiebreaker is even more intense. The two fought from 6 draws to 9 draws, after Wang Chuqin got the match point, Lin Gaoyuan twisted the wrong backhand, and finally Wang Chuqin narrowly won 11:9, thus defeating his opponent 4:3 to win the championship. In this competition, Wang Chuqin successively defeated Ma Long, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan and other strong players, showing good strength.
In the mixed doubles final held earlier, Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin won the championship with a 3-0 victory over the Fan Zhendong/Ku Man combination. (End)
Source: China News Network
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