On March 11, WTT Singapore Grand Slam entered the fifth day of the competition, and the men's and women's singles entered the first round of the main tournament, which is the 1/32 final battle!
In the afternoon, the competition began, and the first person to appear in the national table tennis was Lin Shidong. His opponent is Senegalese player Dior.
Lin Shidong will be 17 years old in 2 months, ranking only 657th in the world. It is difficult to participate in grand slams with his ranking, and even if he does, he has to start from the qualifiers. In order to focus on cultivating him, the national table tennis coaching team let him have this grand slam and directly participate in the main competition, which shows how much attention is attached to him.
Although he is very young, Lin Shidong's skills are exquisite and he has an innate domineering spirit. He once defeated Xu Xin, the golden left hand, and also forced the idol Fan Zhendong into a difficult situation, and almost won Lin Gaoyuan. His technical level is very high. Lin Shidong is young, the level is very high, playing calmly and domineeringly, the appearance of a tiger's head, not afraid of the stage, dare to fight, and has the appearance of Sun Yingsha when she first debuted. Such a player, Liu Guoliang and the coaching staff naturally like, focus on cultivating him is not surprising.
In the first set, Lin Shidong easily won Dior 11:5.
In the second set, Lin Shidong made a 3-0 start, and Dior chased two consecutive points to narrow the gap. The back went into a glued state and hit 7 flats. Lin Shidong scored 2 consecutive points to open up the point difference. Dior called a timeout. Dior won the fight, and then the pick came out, the score came to 10:8, Lin Shidong won the set point. Lin Shidong made a mistake and gave his opponent a chance. However, Lin Shidong won the straight line and won the second set 11:9.
In the third set, Lin Shidong made a 2:0 start. Lin Shidong took the stage, and Dior scored two consecutive points to tie the score. Lin Shidong won consecutive fights, scoring 3 points in a row, and the score came to 5:2. At 7:3 Dior scored two straight points to narrow the gap. However, Lin Shidong scored three consecutive points to win the match point 10:5. Lin Shidong rubbed the ball into the net, and Dior also made a mistake. Lin Shidong won the third set 11:6.
In the end, Lin Shidong swept Dior 3-0 and successfully advanced to the men's singles round of 32.
In another men's singles match, World Table Tennis Runner-up Sweden's Moregaard defeated Egypt's Salah 3-1. The scores in the four innings were 11:7, 6:11, 11:8, 11:9.
Women's table tennis singles matches are played at the same time. The first Chinese women's table tennis player to appear was Sun Yingsha. Her opponent was Winter of Germany.
Sun Yingsha won easier. Not only did she sweep Winter 3-0, but she scored just 12 points in three sets. The scores in the three sets were 11:3, 11:7 and 11:2. The skilled Sun Yingsha made her opponent powerless to fight back.
Behind the Chinese men's table tennis there is Wang Chuqin against Sweden's Fark (played at 16:00), Liang Jingkun against French simon. Gautz (played at 19:40), Malone against Portugal's Girardo (played at 21:00).
Chinese women's table tennis had Wang Manyu against Chinese Taipei's Liu Xinyin (18:30), Ku Man against Singapore veteran Feng Tianwei (19:00) and Liu Shiwen against South Korea's Tian Zhixi (20:20).
Looking forward to their wonderful performance.