The WTT Oman Challenge continues, and in the second round of the women's singles, there is a focus battle, the top seed Chen Xingtong against the Young Chinese Women's Table Tennis Youngster Kuman.
Chen Xingtong can currently be said to be one of the five main players of women's table tennis, and he is 25 years old this year. He was given the opportunity to play in singles at last year's World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, but was the only player among the five contestants who did not reach the final four because he lost to Sun Yingsha.
In fact, Chen Xingtong won the opportunity to participate in the team World Cup as early as 2018 and won the World Cup team championship with the team.
At that time, Chen Xingtong's position in the team was definitely above Sun Yingsha, but for a long time after that, Chen Xingtong did not achieve too good results, while Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu gradually rose, and Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu have now become the absolute main force of Chinese women's table tennis.
Chen Xingtong, on the other hand, can only belong to the main force on the margins. Now, in the case of Ding Ning's retirement, Zhu Yuling's injury, and Liu Shiwen's gradual aging, Chen Xingtong has been able to become a substitute as the main player, but the position is not stable.
And Ku Man is more than a year ago, the Chinese women's table tennis emerged outstanding young players, in this year's WTT Macau Competition, Ku Man partner Fan Zhendong defeated Sun Yingsha Wang Chu Qin combination, showing a good strength. It is also regarded by many fans as an excellent young athlete in Chinese women's table tennis.
This time the two played each other, which can be seen as the impact of young athletes on the Mesozoic Generation.
In the first set, Kuman launched a fierce attack on Chen Xingtong at the beginning of the game, while Chen Xingtong entered the state a little slowly, and Kuman won the first set with an 11-7 score.
In the second set of the game, Chen Xingtong gradually found a little bit of form, the competition between the two people was very fierce, Chen Xingtong won a set back with an 11-9 score.
In the third game, the two did not give in to each other on the field, the score was drawn many times, after 10 draws, Kuman was more decisive, scoring two consecutive points and winning another round with a score of 12-10!
In the fourth game, Ku man was more determined to face Chen Xingtong, who was 7 years older than himself, and Chen Xingtong made too many mistakes, 11-7! Kuman won another set.
In this way, Kuman defeated the number one seed of the tournament with a score of 3-1 and advanced to the women's singles quarterfinals.
Chen Xingtong, as the number one seed of this tournament, actually missed the quarterfinals, which is indeed a bit unexpected!
And Kuman's performance in this competition is also reminiscent of Sun Yingsha 5 years ago.
At that time, Sun Yingsha was not yet 17 years old, and when she first participated in the Open, she defeated Wang Manyu and Chen Meng in the Japan Open and won the final women's singles championship, since then Sun Yingsha has made obvious progress and has now become the absolute main force of Chinese women's table tennis.
Now that Kuman's performance is also eye-catching, can Kuman make a splash and become the second Sun Yingsha in this Oman Challenge? Let's wait and see!