WTT 2022 Singapore Grand Slam, has entered the third match day of competition, on this match day, the Chinese women's table tennis team has a total of three players debuted, the first to play Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, have a relatively large advantage to eliminate their opponents, successfully ranked in the women's singles sixteen, the last appearance is Xiao Zao Liu Shiwen, the world's seventeenth Liu Shiwen, will be in the sixteenth of the knockout match encountered the Chinese German player Shan Xiaona, the latter's world ranking is only twenty-seven, And in the past three direct encounters between the two sides, Liu Shiwen all laughed to the end, which also made fans more optimistic that XiaoJue could win and advance to the second round! After the game started, although Liu Shiwen was somewhat unaccustomed to Shan Xiaona's playing style, the experienced Xiaoju quickly found a way to deal with it after several rounds of adaptation, and then fully grasped the initiative, and finally fell straight into three sets, sweeping Shan Xiaona 3-0 and successfully broke into the women's singles round of sixteen!
Shan Xiaona is a typical straight shot positive glue fast attack method, characterized by the ball speed is very fast, but this style of play is not the mainstream, which is also the first game Liu Shiwen is not very adaptable, the opponent scored 2 points in a row, after many rounds of adaptation, Liu Shiwen gradually grasped the initiative, relying on the advantage of their own backhand twisting, Xiao Zao scored 5 points in a row, the score was reversed to 5-2.
After Shan Xiaona increased her own fight to chase the score to 6-7, Liu Shiwen also changed her strategy, in the serve link, as long as there is no direct opportunity to start, she will choose to give the opponent a long ball, increasing the difficulty of Shan Xiaona's attack, this change also allowed Liu Shiwen to regain control of the initiative, and finally won the first game 11-7.
In the second set of the game, Shan Xiaona's iconic high-throw serve, let her win the 1st point, and it can be clearly felt that she began to take the initiative to increase the quality in every shot of the confrontation, hoping to grasp the initiative, but Liu Shiwen, who has more comprehensive personal ability, relies on the flexible and changeable line changes of the small ball in her own stage, and soon let the opponent fall into a passive situation, and also established a 5-1 lead, although the opponent then used Liu Shiwen's mistake to force the score closer, but the small jujube that was tightened again, Didn't give the opponent a chance to reverse, won 11-7 to get match points!
The third game did not have much suspense, Liu Shiwen suppressed the opponent in the opening stage, Shan Xiaona's weakness in the style of play of pushing left and right was infinitely targeted by Xiao Zao, Liu Shiwen was able to attack on both sides, making it a greater threat on the field, Xiao Zao also achieved a 7-4 lead in the middle of the game, Shan Xiaona, who had no way back, although she relied on continuous acceleration and tenaciously chased the score to 10-10, but in terms of key ball handling, Liu Shiwen was more stable and locked the win at 13-11.
After Liu Shiwen swept Shan Xiaona to advance, the Chinese table tennis women's team on the third match day, the three players who appeared on the scene all sang triumphant songs, but in the next round of duels, Liu Shiwen will encounter the little devil Sun Yingsha, in the previous WTT Macau tournament, Liu Shiwen once eliminated Sun Yingsha with a score of 4-2, so the next Chinese derby, whether it is Xiao Zao who continues to sing high, or the little devil king to win back a round, let's wait and see!