On March 14, 2022, Beijing time, the Singapore Table Tennis Grand Slam ended the 4th day of the main tournament, and the national table tennis won 8 games, with obvious advantages. The all-day competition broke out 3 big cold goals, veteran Pol, World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles champion Falk/Carlsson, women's doubles power combination Du Kaixuan / Li Haoqing unexpectedly out. Japan's Mimachi Ito advanced on both lines, but their Zhang Benzhi and the two-line were out, ending their trip to Singapore early.
On this match day, the national table tennis participated in 8 matches, and the result was 8 consecutive wins, let's take a look at the report card:
Men's Singles: Fan Zhendong eliminated Sen Yuan Zhengchong 3-0, Xu Xin eliminated Person 3-0. The national table tennis 5 advanced to the men's singles round of 16, 1/8 finals Against Fan Zhendong vs An Zaixian, Xu Xin vs Francesca, Liang Jingkun vs Glasmenko, Ma Long vs Wang Chuqin.
Women's Singles: He Zhuojia eliminated Zhang Mo 3-1, Chen Meng eliminated Zeng Jian 3-1, and Wang Yidi eliminated Hirano Miyu 3-0. The six members of the national table tennis team advanced to the women's singles round of 16, and the quarter-final match was Sun Yingsha vs Liu Shiwen, Wang Manyu vs Diaz, Wang Yidi vs Miltham, He Zhuojia vs Chen Meng.
Men's Doubles: Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin eliminated Montero / Apollonia 3-1 to advance to the quarterfinals. The men's doubles quarter-final matches are as follows: Haberson/Gardos vs Duda/Qiu Dang, Fu Shaofeng/Zhou Zheyu vs Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, Exechi/Szudi vs Yukiya Uda/Hayasuke Toue, Jiyuan Zhuang/Chen Jian'an vs Zhang Yuzhen/Lin Zhongxun.
Women's Doubles: Wang Manyu / Sun Yingsha eliminated Zheng Xianzhi / Liu Xinyin 3-0 to advance to the quarterfinals. The women's doubles quarter-final matches are as follows: Wang Manyu / Sun Yingsha vs Tian Zhixi / Liang Xiayin, Winter / Miltham vs Ni Xialian / Denut, Szokos / Polkanova vs Choi Hyo Joo / Lee Shi Wen, Kamas / Batra vs Hayata Hina / Ito Mimachi.
Mixed Doubles: Wang Chuqin/ Sun Yingsha eliminated Yonescu/Szokos 3-0 to advance to the semifinals, the semi-finals against Huang Zhenting/Du Kaixuan, and the other mixed doubles semi-finals was Lin Yunru/Zheng Yijing vs. Lebesson/Yuan Jiannan.
This match day also broke out three big cold spots. The first was the men's singles field, Yukiya Utada eliminated Bol 3-2, followed by the men's doubles field, Habbeson / Galdos eliminated the World Table Tennis Men's Doubles champion Falke / Carlsson 3-2, and the third was the women's doubles field, Du Kaixuan / Li Haoqing lost 1-3 to the German combination Winter / Miltham.
In addition, in the Japanese team, Ito Mimachi advanced in the double line, she first reached the women's singles round of 16, and then partnered with Hayata Shina to reach the quarterfinals of the women's doubles. Zhang Benzhihe was out of the double line, and after the men's singles was eliminated early, he partnered Hina Hayata to play in the mixed doubles match, and the result was 0-3 defeat to Huang Zhenting/Du Kaixuan, and Zhang Benzhihe ended his trip to Singapore early.
In addition to Ito, there are also Hayata Hina and Ishikawa Yoshijun to advance to the women's singles round of 16, and only Yukiya Utada in Japan advanced to the men's singles round of 16, which is still a big gap compared with national table tennis. We have seen that many European players have advanced to the singles round of 16, and European table tennis as a whole has made progress, which is worth our attention!