The WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament ushered in a women's singles match on the evening of March 14, against China's Chen Meng and Singapore's Zeng Jian.
Chen Meng won the women's singles title at the Tokyo Olympics last year, is currently ranked second in the world, and is also considered the current leader of Chinese women's table tennis.
Zeng Jian, a beijing player and the sister of Zhang Yining and Ding Ning, joined Singapore in 2014 and began playing for Singapore.
At the beginning of the first game, the two competed fiercely, and the score reached 3 draws.
Zeng Jian's continuous reverse rotation caused some trouble to Chen Meng, and Zeng Jian took a 4-3 lead. But soon Chen Meng still used the color to chase the score to 4 draws!
Zeng Jian still has a certain strength, and he does not fall behind in the confrontation with Chen Meng, and Zeng Jian has achieved a 6-4 lead.
In multi-shot matchmaking, Chen Meng always made mistakes when the backhand became straight, and Zeng Jian led 7-5!
After that, Zeng Jian led all the way, and Chen Meng made too many mistakes, Zeng Jian won the first set with an 11-7 score!
In the second game, Chen Meng grabbed the hand to score, taking the lead in scoring the first point! Chen Meng changed in motivation and initiative, scoring consecutive points to achieve a 3-1 lead.
Chen Meng's state gradually improved, every point scored in the game, will shout to cheer himself up, Chen Meng's two serves scored, extending the score to a 6-2 lead!
Chen Meng's landing point opened, which made Zeng Jian feel very uncomfortable, Chen Meng scored consecutive points to get the set point 10-3! Chen Meng scored another point to win a set back with an 11-3 score!
From the perspective of strength, Chen Meng is definitely above Zeng Jian, as long as Chen Meng can play more proactively, winning the game should not be a big problem!
In the third set, Zeng Jian started well, Chen Meng always made mistakes in the backhand attack, and Zeng Jian took a 3-0 lead.
Chen Meng, not willing to show weakness, soon chased the score to 4 draws! After 5 draws, Chen Meng's two serves took the initiative to launch a forehand attack, scoring two consecutive points to reverse the score 7-5.
Zeng Jian was forced to call a pause. Back from the suspension, Zeng Jian tried to sneak a long ball, but the serve was wrong, and Chen Meng scored another point!
Zeng Jian still tried to drag the game into the stalemate stage and chase the score to 7-8, at this time, Marlene also called a timeout for Chen Meng!
The tactics performed by Chen Meng on the timeout were more resolute, and he won the set point 10-7!
In this case, Zeng Jian saved 2 consecutive set points to chase the score to 9-10, but Chen Meng still won the set with an 11-9 score!
Chen Meng won this round, Marlene was also very excited, and couldn't help but shout loudly on the sidelines, it can be seen that Marlene still attaches great importance to this game!
In the fourth set, Chen Meng started very decisively and took a 2-0 lead!
But Zeng Jian soon scored three consecutive points to reverse the score, and the competition between the two became more and more fierce, and the score came to 6 draws!
After 6 draws, Chen Meng was more decisive, scoring two points in a row to lead 8-6! Chen Meng became more and more courageous, ending the battle with an 11-6 score.
In this game, Chen Meng continued to adjust his state when his state was not very good, and he still played very firmly in the situation of falling behind!
In this game, Zeng Jian's performance is also very good, but compared with Chen Meng, Zeng Jian's unnecessary mistakes are more.
In this way, Chen Meng stubbornly won three consecutive sets in a 0-1 situation, and finally defeated Zeng Jian and strongly advanced to the next round! Chen Meng's opponent in the next round will be his teammate He Zhuojia!