Table tennis In the early morning of February 27, Beijing time, the top 4 list of women's singles has been born! Ni Xialian, a 58-year-old former world champion of national table tennis and now Luxembourg, fought hard for 7 rounds, although she once exploded an 11-1 score, but in the end she was still eliminated by Austria's Polkanova, while Han Ying, a German-Chinese athlete and Olympic team runner-up, successfully qualified.
Next, Han Ying will compete with Romanian star Szokos for the ticket to the final, while the Russian dark horse Mikhailova, who eliminated the defending champion Mitteheim, will face Polkanova, which is worth paying attention to!
A total of 16 people participated in the European Cup women's singles competition, of which Chinese accounted for 4, namely Ni Xialian, Han Ying, Fu Yu, Shao Jieni, but everyone's play was not very powerful, of which portugal's two players Fu Yu and Shao Jieni were eliminated in the first round, respectively, by the Romanian players Samara and Szokos, so the second round was only Ni Xialian and Han Ying.
In the quarterfinals, Ni Xialian's opponent was Polkanova, who was not low in ranking but had average results, and then the two played very fiercely, Ni Xialian lost 3 consecutive sets 11-13, 2-11, 12-14, but then won three consecutive sets at 12-10, 11-1, 11-5. Unfortunately, the tiebreaker battle ni Xialian collapsed 7-11 and finally failed to advance to the semi-final stage.
In the other three quarter-finals, the Olympic team runner-up Han Ying and the World Cup singles runner-up Samara also staged a seven-set battle, the result of Which Han Ying turned the tide 0-1, 1-2, 2-3, and then eliminated the opponent 4-3; Szokos defeated the Netherlands' Ehrland 4-2, which was not surprising.
The real upset was the defending champion, Germany's Mitheim, who lost 2-4 in a showdown with Russia's Mikhailova and missed another gold medal.
From the perspective of personal achievements and other aspects, Han Ying is undoubtedly the most promising athlete in the current women's singles final four, but then again, Fu Yu was once the women's singles champion of the European Games, Ni Xialian was once the world champion, and last year she could beat Wang Yidi, the main force of national table tennis, but this time she is out, so no one in competitive sports can lie on the merit book, and no one is a winning general.
So who will spend this year's European Cup women's singles gold medal? The answer is coming up this evening, so let's wait for the semi-finals and final results to come out!