The first round of singles in the WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament began, and Li Haoqing, the second main player of the Women's Team in Hong Kong, China, beat African champion Messerif 11-0, and the final result was also Li Haoqing's 3-0 pass. And the two big unpopular are from the European celebrities, the German women's team's European champion Sorja unexpectedly lost to Thailand's veteran Sutasini 0-3, Romania's World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles runner-up Yonescu did not pass the first round, facing Austria's veteran Gardos, in the case of a 2-1 lead, was overturned by the opponent 2-3 tragically a round trip.
China's Hong Kong women's team was once a strong team in the world women's table tennis, when the Chinese women's team led by Wang Nan and Zhang Yining was dominant, the Chinese Hong Kong women's team in athens and Beijing Olympic cycles repeatedly created difficulties for the Chinese women's team in the World Championships women's team competition, when the Chinese Hong Kong team with Lin Ling, Tiyana, Jiang Huajun and other mainland players won the second place in the women's team in the 2004 and 2006 World Table Tennis Championships. Last year, Du Kaixuan, a sister in Hong Kong, China, also defeated wang Manyu, the champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, and there was a significant gap in the strength of the second main force Li Haoqing and Du Kaixuan.
In the first round, Li Haoqing's opponent was The African champion Egypt's Messeliff, but Li Haoqing started with a super offensive firepower, sending eggs to sweep munmecheliff. In the next two sets, despite Messeliff's best efforts to fight back, he was unable to bite the score, and Li Haoqing defeated Messeliff 3-0 (11-0/ 11-6/ 11-7).
The German women's team is the runner-up of the women's team at the Rio Olympic Games and the final four of the Tokyo Olympic Games, in addition to the Chinese female players Han Ying and Shan Xiaona, the local player Solja is also a first-class player in the European women's singles, in 2021, Solja won 2 consecutive women's singles and mixed doubles titles at the European Championships, and almost eliminated Ito Mizutani / Mizutani Hayabusa in the Olympic mixed doubles, the world ranking among the top 20 Solja accidentally fell in the first round of the Grand Slam, the opponent is not the main player of national table tennis or Japan and South Korea, but the third-rate Thai 31-year-old veteran Su tassini, Sutasini was firmly in control of the rhythm of the game, and Sorga lost to Sutasini 0-3 (6-11, 5-11, 3-11). Sutasini played in the Japanese league, and after playing against Japanese women and other foreign players, he has improved his strength and now has the ability to beat the European champions.
The first round of the men's singles field also had a cold break, with Romania's Jonescu, the runner-up winner of the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, and Austria's 41-year-old veteran Gardos narrowly meeting, and finally Jonescu was 2-3 (
8-11/15-13/11-7/5-11/10-12) lost to Gardos. Romania's Jonescu is a doubles player, he and Spain's Robles have been paired for many years to participate in international men's doubles competitions, the best record is the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles runner-up, in the mixed doubles arena Jonescu / Szokos is also a regular international player, reached the Tokyo Olympic Mixed Doubles Quarterfinals, and also reached the semifinals at the European Championships. Men's singles in the first round of Jonescu had a 2-1 lead, the decider also had a chance to win, and finally took the initiative to make too many mistakes 2 points to lose the second round of the men's singles.
With the top European masters such as Solja and Jonescu out of the cold, this Grand Slam is estimated to be another Asian feast, and it is difficult for European and American athletes to appear in the final 8 finals, semi-finals and finals.