In the WTT Table Tennis Grand Slam Singles Quarterfinals, Chen Siyu, the second sister of Chinese Taipei of the National Table Tennis Sisters, challenged Ito Mimako, and after missing the fourth set point, she finally lost to Japan's Ito Mimachi 1-3 (6-11/11/11-6/7-11/10-12). American teenager Canek, who had just defeated Zhang Benzhihe in the last round, was reversed by Sweden's 23-year-old Carlberg (10-12/11-8/11-6/11-9) after a bitter four-set battle.
Japan's women's Ito Mimachi is the strongest opponent of the national table tennis women's team in the two Olympic cycles in Tokyo and Paris, currently ranked No. 3 in the world, and also the double women's singles third place in the Tokyo Olympic Games and the 2020 World Cup, there is no doubt that Ito Mimachi is still the biggest obstacle to the Chinese women's team winning the grand slam. In this round of competition, Ito Mimako's opponent is Chen Siyu, the second sister of the national table tennis sister team In Taipei, Chen Siyu's performance in the women's doubles field is even more eye-catching, and she and Zheng Xianzhi have defeated the world table tennis champion Wang Manyu / Sun Yingsha in 2019, Japan's Hirano Miyu / Ishikawa Yoshizumi and many other pairs of strong files.
In this game, As always, Ito Mimachi quickly threw himself into the state at the beginning of the game, took the lead early, and soon won the first set, and then in the 2nd set Chen Siyu was not discouraged, handled properly in the serve and serve links, honored the opponent for a set, and once got 2 innings in the 4th set, but unfortunately was scored by Ito Mimachi for 4 consecutive points, regrettably eliminated after being reversed. Ito danced with excitement after the game, which also proved that the game was very hard to win.
In a men's singles "double card" match, the last round of upset defeated the Japanese brother Zhang BenZhihe's American Canek, in this round of competition for the round of 16, encountered the Swedish star Carlberg, after 4 rounds of fierce competition, Carlberg in the first set of the first loss of 3-1 (10-12/11-8/11-6/11-9) eliminated Canek.
Kanek and Carlberg have a good relationship with the Chinese women's player, Kanek partnered with Wang Manyu at the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, made a breakthrough in the new century for the American table tennis team in the mixed doubles arena, the transnational combination won a medal, and this competition is the men's singles upset to eliminate the national table tennis rival Zhang Benzhihe, clearing a major obstacle for the national table tennis, but unfortunately this round was quickly eliminated by Carlberg. Although Carlberg did not have a medal in the World Table Tennis Championships, he and Lin Gaoyuan lost 7 rounds of the battle, still have a strong strength, Carlberg's girlfriend is also a table tennis player, she is the Chinese beauty Wan yuan who represents the German table tennis team. The young generation of Europe, led by Carlberg, Moregold and Darko, is expected to succeed Pol and Ochalov and become a new force in Europe.
Looking forward to this Grand Slam, compared with the past, the scope of participation is more extensive, changing the traditional pattern of Eurasian confrontation in the past, Zhang An of the United States, Canek, Zhang Mo of Canada, Assar of Egypt, Messerif, Calderano of Brazil, Bruna Takahashi and other Central And American, South American and African players have begun to be active in the international table tennis arena, although they can not subvert the domination pattern of Eurasia and Asia, but they have been as the leaders of their respective continents, daring to challenge strong hands in high-level competitions, and even win in the cold.