On March 14, 2022, the table tennis Grand Slam tournament entered a white-hot stage, the national table tennis 11 people advanced to the singles round of 16, in addition, Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha were all one-day doubles wins, Fan Zhendong defeated Mori Yuan Zhengchong in men's singles, Wang Chuqin in men's doubles defeated Montero/Apollonia, Sun Yingsha's women's doubles partner Wang Manyu eliminated Zheng Xianyu/Liu Xinyin, and mixed doubles partner Wang Chuqin eliminated Yonescu/Szokos.
Finally, today's focus showdown, the national table tennis women's singles player Wang Yidi against the Japanese world champion Hirano Miyu, Wang Yidi is the fifth seed, last year's World Table Tennis Championships singles third place, when she defeated Ito Mimachi made a great contribution, this time with Ito Mimachi in the same district, Hirano Miyu is the last player in the Japanese women's team singles competition, she won the women's table tennis World Cup championship and the Asian Championship women's singles champion.
In the first set, Wang Yidi fell into a bitter battle, Hirano Miyu was more prepared, through continuous attacks, soon got the innings point 10-9, Wang Yidi withstood the pressure, chased to 11 draws and scored 2 consecutive points, 13-11 first, in the second set Wang Yidi led the way, expanding the point difference to 6-3, and then Hirano Miyu began to chase points, but the effect was very poor, Wang Yidi played steadily, banging out 11-7 to win another set.
In the third set, Hirano Miyu fought backwaters, strengthened the offensive to attack Wang Yidi, but there was a gap in the comprehensive strength of the two, Wang Yidi scored 2 points in a row, taking a 4-2 lead, the score alternately rose, Hirano Miyu chased points continuously, Wang Yidi always maintained the lead, Hirano Miyu 4-7 behind called a timeout, Wang Yidi scored 3 points in a row to get 10-4 to get the match point, Hirano Miyu chased 3 points, Wang Yidi called a timeout.
Then Wang Yidi played 11-8 to end the game, and finally swept Hirano Miyu 3-0 to advance to the women's singles round of 16, followed by Germany's Mitheim, who eliminated Hungary's Madaraz 3-1, as for Wang Yidi against Ito Mimachi to wait until the quarterfinals.
In the men's doubles, Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin lost a set, and finally eliminated the Portuguese duo of Montero/Apollonia 3-1 (11-8, 12-10, 9-11, 11-5), and the women's doubles Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu defeated the Chinese Taipei duo zheng xianzhi/Liu Xinyin 11-5, 11-7, 11-2, and the mixed doubles Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha beat the Romanian duo of Yonescu/Szokos 11-4, 11-8, 11-9.
The national table tennis men's singles occupy five seats, namely the top seed Fan Zhendong, the second seed Ma Long, as well as Xu Xin, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, the women's singles occupy six seats, in addition to the number one seed Sun Yingsha, the second seed Chen Meng, there are Wang Manyu, Liu Shiwen, Wang Yidi, He Zhuojia, of which Ma Long and Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha and Liu Shiwen, Chen Meng and He Zhuojia, are all in advance to meet the teacher, to determine one person to advance.