In the evening WTT Grand Slam, the first showdown was staged in two interesting matches. One is a women's singles match, the two sides are the Tokyo Olympic women's singles champion, but also the main force of national table tennis, now the world's second-ranked Chen Meng, against Zeng Jian from Singapore. Zeng Jian, like Feng Tianwei, is also a former domestic player, and once played in Beijing women's table tennis, but because the performance in China did not reach a high level, he chose to go to Singapore to develop in order to continue his table tennis dream, and made great progress and gained a lot of good results. Tsang, 25, now has a fairly competitive position among Singapore's main players. Now at home, the match between Zeng Jian and Chen Meng can be said to be full of highlights. Another game played earlier, the most eye-catching game, came from the men's table tennis field, by the national table tennis 32-year-old veteran Xu Xin, against the veteran perssen from Sweden. Of course, the Perlson mentioned here is not the legendary veteran we are familiar with, but the 35-year-old veteran Perlson's off-court coach is the legendary veteran Perlson we often talked about before, and now he has become the head coach of Swedish men's table tennis.
Back to the two games themselves, in the match between Zeng Jian and Chen Meng, she entered the game earlier than Chen Meng, and after the two sides bit the score in the first set, she played more steadily in the situation, while Chen Meng seemed to have some mistakes, and finally zeng Jian won a set 11-7, and Zeng Jian also took a 1-0 lead. However, in the following three sets, Chen Meng gradually entered a better state, and there was a great improvement in the quality of the single board and the control of the rhythm of the game, and her transfer of Zeng Jian also made the other party very uncomfortable, 11-3, Chen Meng returned zeng jian in a relatively relaxed way, and chased the big score to a 1-1 draw. Although in the third set, Zeng Jian had been tightly bitten, and the two sides played from 3-3 to 7-8, Chen Meng's key points at the end of the innings in the third set were handled properly, there was no senseless mistake, although Zeng Jian saved a set point with a 10-8 lead, he still scored another city with an 11-9 score. Take a 2-0 lead. In the fourth set of the game, Chen Meng did not give Zeng Jian another chance, and after the two sides started to play 2-2 and 3-3, he quickly opened the score and scored consecutive points at the end of the game, from 5-6 down all the way to 11-6, thus eliminating Zeng Jian with a 3-0 overall score and getting a place in the women's singles round of 16 as desired. In the next round, Chen Meng will compete with teammate He Zhuojia for the top 8 places.
Next, let's take a look at Xu Xin's play. Xu Xin played quite steadily against Person, who is now ranked 43rd in the world. Although Person brought a lot of offensive pressure to Xu Xin in the first set, and the two have been tightly matched, xu Xin handled the ball more decisively at the key points at the end of the game, winning the first set 11-9. In the second set of the game, the competition between the two was more intense, the first half of the game was tight, and the second half of the game was once 9-9, 10-10, 11-11, 12-12, 13-13 and 14-14, and finally Xu Xin scored with the lucky edge of the backhand attack, and Perlson's forehand offensive error to send points, 16-14 and then the next city, to obtain a 2-0 lead. With the first two games in hand, Xu Xin played more relaxed in the third set, and Perlson seemed to be in a bit of a hurry, after the two sides played 1-1 and 2-3 draws, Xu Xin gradually opened up the point difference between the two sides, and once achieved a significant lead of 7-2 and 8-5 and 10-6, and finally caused Person to return the ball error by the backhand rush, and won the third set with an 11-6 score, thus eliminating Person with a total score of 3-0, and got a men's singles round of 16 place as desired.
Although Chen Meng and Xu Xin have encountered some challenges in the game, for the two players who have been baptized in the Olympic arena, this challenge is still within their tolerance, and both of them have finally won the game through their own adjustments, each getting a place in the round of 16 in men's and women's singles. Let us once again congratulate Chen Meng, congratulations to Xu Xin, and wish them to continue to play well in the future games.