On the evening of March 13, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Grand Slam tournament ended the 3rd main day of duels, the current national table tennis Ma Long, Liu Shiwen and other main players have successfully passed, but there are also 5 players have been eliminated, of which 3 have suffered a crushing defeat in foreign battles, namely Lin Gaoyuan, Xiang Peng, Lin Shidong; the other 2 lost to teammates, namely Chen Xingtong and Ku Man.
On March 14, the Chinese team will usher in seven foreign battle tests, of which Fan Zhendong and Wang Yidi's opponents are All Japanese athletes, namely Masataka Morien and Miyu Hirano. And Ito Mimachi, Ishikawa Yoshinori, Bohr and other strong opponents of the foreign association will continue to appear today, impacting the qualifications for the next round of singles, which is worth paying attention to!
See below for details of the game and the latest fixture schedule.
1. The state of the war on March 13
On March 13, the national table tennis participated in a total of 7 singles matches, one of which lost the civil war, that is, the 18-year-old women's team youngster Ku man, who suffered a fiasco when she launched an attack on the 21-year-old Olympic champion Sun Yingsha, and was swept 0-3 and failed to win a set, which shows that the gap between the two is still very large.
As for the 16-year-old men's team youngster Lin Shidong, who lost to Slovenia in 5 sets and the winner of the New Branch European singles champion Dako (the Olympics eliminated Zhang Benzhihe and Pitcheford), but he once led 2-1 to force his opponent into a desperate situation, and the decisive game only lost 2 points, such a performance has been very good, still worthy of everyone's affirmation!
The rest of the people's words - men's singles king Chu Qin won a big victory, following last year's WTT World Cup final and then swept the British famous Pitcheford 3-0; 3-1 Malone viciously fought 4 sets, eliminating Africa's "one brother" and Nigeria's Aruna; Liang Jingkun also won 3-1, refusing to be upset by Austrian veteran Gardos.
In the women's singles, Liu Shiwen beat the German Chinese veteran and Olympic women's team runner-up Shan Xiaona 3-0, while Wang Manyu also swept the Hungarian veteran Pota 3-0 without encountering any difficulties.
In terms of foreign associations, the runner-up of the men's singles of the Xinke World Table Tennis Championships, Moregold (Sweden), was upset and lost to the German player Dako after 5 sets; the South Korean women's singles has been completely destroyed, and none of them has advanced to the third round of the main competition; Hina Hayata, Lin Yunru, Karlsson and others have successfully passed the pass and have not been cold out.
In general, there are still not many cold spots, and the results of most of the games are still in line with the strength comparison between athletes, which shows that winning still depends on real skills, and the situation of upset is destined to be a minority.
2. March 14 Schedule
On March 14, the national table tennis doubles duo Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu will play against the Romanian duo of Jonescu/Szokos, and the Chinese Taipei duo of Zheng Xianchen/Liu Xinyin, and the problem is not very big.
In terms of singles, Fan Zhendong and Wang Yidi will, as mentioned before, respectively, against Japan's Masataka Morien and Miyu Hirano; Chen Meng's opponent is Singapore's Zeng Jian; Xu Xin will face Swedish veteran Perlson; He Zhuojia's opponent is Canadian Chinese athlete Zhang Mo - the most outstanding of these opponents is Hirano Miyu, but she has not threatened the Chinese team for a long time.
In addition, Ito Will be arranged to play with Chinese Taipei duo Chen Siyu, Bohr will face Japanese national champion Yukiya Utada, Hong Kong's "one brother" Huang Zhenting will face European singles champion Francesca, and American youngster Kanek, who eliminated Zhang Benzhihe, will play with Swedish rising star Carlberg.
So will there be a new unpopular explosion today? Can national table tennis avoid another defeat in foreign wars? The answer is about to be revealed, let's cheer together for the athletes of the Chinese team!