WTT Singapore Grand Slam, has entered the second match day of the main tournament, the first match day debut of the Chinese players all successfully advanced, but in this match day, the first debut of the post-00s young player Xiang Peng lost to the Danish veteran Gross, and then appeared in the Olympic champion Chen Meng, also suffered a hard battle in the first round of women's singles, her opponent is the Japanese chipper Hitomi Sato, from the world ranking Point of view Chen Menggao ranked second in the world, Sato Hitomi ranked twenty-second, But fans familiar with table tennis know that chippers have always been very difficult to deal with, and Hitomi Sato has also defeated Olympic champion Ding Ning twice in the past in the process of playing against the Chinese team, which shows that she still has a strong competitiveness! In this game, Hitomi Sato also created a lot of trouble for Chen Meng, and there were many wonderful multi-shot round duels in the game, but Chen Meng, who had stronger personal ability, did not give his opponent the opportunity to be upset, and swept Hitomi Sato 3-0 in three straight sets, breaking into the women's singles top 32!
As soon as the first game came up, Hitomi Sato and Chen Meng both entered the state at the first time, Big Dream Dream relied on his more ferocious forehand attack, wanting to force Hitomi Sato to retreat, so as to let himself grasp the initiative, and Hitomi Sato obviously did his homework, in the game, through the change of the landing point, constantly mobilize Chen Meng, once the opportunity appeared, the initiative to attack, the two you came and went to hit 3-3 draws, although then Hitomi Sato relied on his own rotation changes, scored 2 points in a row to take the lead.
But Chen Meng did not panic, relying on the obvious advantage of pulling, soon chased the score to 5 draws, with the deepening of the game, Chen Meng's feelings were getting better and better, continuous forehand attack scores for themselves to achieve an 8-6 lead, and when 9-8 led, Chen Meng's consecutive dunks were saved by Hitomi Sato, it can be seen that the tenacity of this chipper player, fortunately Chen Meng was not in a hurry, the continuous attack forced the opponent to return to the net, won the key 1 point, and finally got the lead 11-8 as desired.
Chen Meng, who holds the big score in the lead, played more actively in the second set, her high-quality forehand attack, so that Sato Hitomi can only be forced to withdraw to complete the high-quality return ball, Chen Meng also seized the opportunity to take a 2-0 lead, but the next 2 goals, Chen Meng made a mistake, allowing Hitomi Sato to equalize the score.
Then Chen Meng took the lead in scoring again, but in the case of a 3-2 lead, Chen Meng's fierce attacks in the multi-shot round were saved by the active Sato Hitomi, and caused Chen Meng's mistakes, chasing the score to 3 draws, and the next game the two entered a stalemate, but after a 5-5 draw, Big Dream Began to pull apart the point difference, and 11-7 to the next city.
At the beginning of the third set, it can be clearly felt that Hitomi Sato's momentum is not as good as the first two sets, which also has a lot to do with the decline in physical fitness caused by her excessive running, after the two sides played a 2-2 draw, Chen Meng began to score consecutive points to achieve a 4-2 lead, and maintained the lead until the end, locking up the victory at 11-9.
In this WTT Singapore Grand Slam, the Japanese table tennis women's team is still the biggest opponent of the Chinese team, such as Ito Mimachi, Hirano Miyu and Ishikawa Yoshijun and other famous players will also appear, I believe that with the deepening of the schedule, the Sino-Japanese showdown will be more and more staged, and Chen Meng's first battle will win the victory for the Chinese team, it is also a good start, the big dream continues to cheer!