The 2022 WTT Singapore Grand Slam women's singles tournament continued, with ST World Championships women's singles champion Wang Manyu making his season debut. In the first round of the match against Chinese Taipei's youngster Liu Xinyin, Wang Manyu easily won without bloodshed and won the opening red. It is worth mentioning that Wang Manyu once played an attack wave of 11 consecutive wins, making the opponent shake his head helplessly in the game. Some fans said that today's Wang Manyu, whose comprehensive strength ranks first in the women's singles list of national table tennis, is also a big favorite for winning the Paris Olympics. Veteran Liu Shiwen also joked, "Fighting with Wang Manyu is no different from standing on the opposite side of the male player"!
Wang Manyu has always been the focus of the national table tennis coaching team in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, originally Liu Shiwen, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha competed in the Olympic team, but in the end the coach decided to use Wang Manyu to replace Liu Shiwen. In the end, the Chinese team successfully defeated the Japanese team in the final to win the championship, and it was this Olympic team gold medal that made Wang Manyu break through the cocoon into a butterfly. Last season, Wang Manyu won the women's singles title at the World Championships with the highest gold content, which is also the highest singles honor she has won so far in her career. Together with Sun Yingsha, she became the two "overlord flowers" of the national table tennis Paris Olympic cycle.
In this Singapore Grand Slam Tournament, Wang Manyu and the head coach Xiao Zhan attach great importance to it, not only allowing them to test the results of the previous closed training, but also being able to stage strong dialogues with Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Liu Shiwen and other main players again. If Wang Manyu wins the women's singles championship again in this competition, she is the well-deserved "big sister" of the national table tennis women's team. In the first match against Liu Xinyin, Wang Manyu entered the form quickly, and after winning the next set, she was fully released in the next two sets. Especially in the second game, Wang Manyu relied on his sharp attack and airtight defense to score 11 points in a row when he lost a point first.
This score has also become the most disparity in this competition so far. Some fans joked, "Wang Manyu is a bit faceless, this is simply a slaughter-style game"! From the perspective of grouping, Wang Manyu will not meet too strong opponents before the quarterfinals, as long as there is no slip-up, she has basically locked in a ticket to the top four. If they can reach the semi-finals, Sun Yingsha and Liu Shiwen are both potential opponents. Before the game, the highest demand from fans is to expect Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha to fight again, and in the 2021 World Championships, Wang Manyu will become the final winner.
If the two meet again in the semi-finals in the Singapore Grand Slam women's singles event, who will win this time? In addition, in the women's doubles field, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, the happy "enemy", will join forces to strive to defend their title in this project, and the biggest threats of the two are Japan's Ito Mimachi and Hayata Hina. Wang Manyu is a very low-key and modest player in the national table tennis women's team, according to her, when she was a child, her parents made money by selling meat sandwich steamed buns to support themselves in practicing table tennis, so they could not let their parents down. Today, the technically comprehensive Wang Manyu is expected to shine again in the world table tennis world in 2022!
(Luo Treasurer)