National table tennis has gained 1 genius! The 17-year-old beat the world's ninth, and Sun Yingsha ushered in a challenge. The first round of the 2022 WTT Singapore Grand Slam Women's Singles staged a focus battle, with the 17-year-old national table tennis youngster Kuman playing against world champion, Singapore's famous Feng Tianwei. In this campaign, Ku man showed the strong impact of the young players, defeating Feng Tianwei 3-1 and advancing to the women's singles round of 32. In the next round, Kuman will face Sun Yingsha, who is currently ranked no. 1 in the world.
In the past two years, Kuman has maintained a steady rise, and won the third place in women's doubles at last year's National Games, and then at the WTT Macau Championships at the beginning of this year, Kuman and Fan Zhendong defeated the Mixed Doubles Champion Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha of the World Table Tennis Championships to advance to the mixed doubles final, and finally lost to Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen and won the second place. In the previous WTT regular season challenge in Oman, Kuman fought in the third line, and finally won the championship of the women's singles and women's doubles events, and also defeated the world champion Chen Xingtong in the women's singles competition, which shows that Kuman's recent upward momentum is very strong. Although Feng Tianwei is now ranked ninth in the world, far exceeding Kuman's 131st, the strength of the national table tennis players is difficult to measure by the world ranking, and Kuman's current state is very good, and many people in the outside world have predicted that Kuman will upset the world's ninth place.
In the first set, Feng Tianwei started 3-1, and then Ku Man launched an onslaught to win the score 6-4, after which Feng Tianwei chased the score to a 9-9 draw, and at the critical moment, Ku Man scored 2 consecutive points to win the first set 11-9. In the second set, the two were still fiercely contested in the opening stages, and when the score was 5-5, Ku man suddenly made a force and scored 6 consecutive points to win another set at 11-5. In the third set, Ku man led 5-2, Feng Tianwei was forced to call a timeout, after the game restarted, Feng Tianwei chased the score to a 6-6 draw, after which the two fought again, Feng Tianwei won a set back 11-9. In the fourth set, the competition between the two has entered a white-hot stage, when the score is 5-5, Ku man played a wave of small climax, and finally locked up the victory 11-6, thus defeating Feng Tianwei 3-1 on aggregate and advancing to the women's singles round of 32.
In this game, Ku Man did not show any timidity in the face of Feng Tianwei, launched an onslaught from the beginning, fully displayed his talent, presumably the coaching staff will give her more opportunities to play in the future, congratulations to the national table tennis has gained another genius. In the next round, Ku man will play a derby with Sun Yingsha, for Sun Yingsha, she is now in the position of being impacted, and she is about to usher in a challenge.