On March 12, the 2022 WTT Singapore Grand Slam ended the first round of the men's and women's singles competition, with a total of 16 players in the national table tennis team, and finally 3 out. Among them, Lin Gaoyuan, a seeded player, and Xiang Peng, who advanced in the qualifiers, both lost in the foreign war, while in a civil war in the women's singles, Wang Yidi defeated Chen Xingtong. In addition, in other competitions, Japan's famous Zhang Benzhihe was also upset, losing to the American player Karnak, and was tragically killed by a round of travel.
As the world table tennis federation's first high-level event this year, the Singapore Grand Slam attracts almost all high-level players to compete, comparable to the World Table Tennis Championships. The National Table Tennis Association has attached great importance to this competition, and the Chinese Table Tennis Association has issued relevant documents to link the men's and women's singles national table tennis championships of the WTT Singapore Grand Slam with the qualification for table tennis at the Hangzhou Asian Games in September this year. Including Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Liu Shiwen, Wang Manyu and other veteran newcomers and other veterans and newcomers, the huge lineup of more than ten people competed.
Coupled with the two young players Xiang Peng and Ku Man, who successfully broke through in the qualifiers, there were a total of 8 men and 8 men in the national table tennis, and a total of 16 people competed in the men's and women's singles events. After two days of competition, the overall performance of the national table tennis, in addition to Lin Gaoyuan in the first round against the South Korean players, the qualifier breakthrough Lin Zhongxun, upset 6-11, 9-11, 6-11 lost three consecutive sets; Xiang Peng 0-3 lost to Denmark's Grot, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun three people lost one set in the game, Xu Xin, Wang Chuqin, Lin Shidong are the next three sets to win.
In the first round of the women's singles competition, the overall performance of national table tennis was outstanding, in addition to Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong's civil war, the two must have a out, and finally the two played five sets, Wang Yidi won 3-2 to advance. Of the other 6, only youngster Ku Man lost one set against Singapore's famous Feng Tianwei, while the others, including Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Liu Shiwen, He Zhuojia and others, all went down three sets in a row to win 3-0 to advance.
In other competitions, the Japanese men's team star and No. 4 seed Zhang Benzhihe lost 11-7, 9-11, 9-11, 3-11 against the American player Carnak, and lost 1-3 in a big score, suffering a round trip. The No. 3 seed and Brazil's Hugo Calderano also suffered a cold blow, playing five sets and losing 2-3 to Portugal's Grardo. In today's mixed doubles first round, the combination of Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha was also easily won 3-0 and successfully advanced.