On March 11, the first day of the WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament was contested, and The National Table Tennis 2 generals Lin Shidong and Sun Yingsha competed successively, and both won. Among them, Sun Yingsha joined hands with the new head coach Qiu Yike for the first time and won the opening of the Grand Slam tournament as desired!
In this Grand Slam event, in addition to the 12 famous players such as Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and other 12 famous players directly won the participation name, He Zhuojia, Xiang Peng, Lin Shidong, Ku Man and other 4 people passed the wild card and were nominated to participate. Among them, as a rising star in men's table tennis, Lin Shidong got the opportunity to directly participate in the main competition, and he swept Dior (11-5, 11-9, 11-6) 3-0 to open the door.
The second national table tennis player to appear in the main tournament is the Olympic champion and now ranked no. 1 in the world, and her opponent is German teenager Winter. Facing the powerful Sun Yingsha, Winter was a little timid, completely unable to resist in the game, and quickly lost 0-3, scoring only 12 points in 3 innings.
In the first set, Sun Yingsha started 3-0 and quickly took a 10-2 lead to take the lead at 11-3; in the second set, Sun Yingsha firmly controlled the initiative of the game, leading 6-1, 10-6 to win 4 innings, 11-7 to win 2 consecutive sets; in the third set, Sun Yingsha easily locked in the victory 11-2.
In this Singapore competition, Sun Yingsha is a triathlon, in addition to competing for the championship in the fiercely competitive singles, she also has to partner Wang Manyu to compete for the women's doubles championship, and Wang Chuqin to fight for the mixed doubles championship, which replicates the task of the World Championships. In the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, Sun Yingsha also played three events, and finally won 2 gold and 1 silver, missing the women's singles championship.
In this Singapore Grand Slam, what kind of achievements can Sun Yingsha achieve? As the general manager of the World Table Tennis Federation Japan, Ai Fukuhara also came to Singapore to watch the Grand Slam tournament on the spot, and she was previously reunited with her old friend Liu Shiwen, a transnational girlfriend, and compared her height.