WTT Table Tennis Singapore Grand Slam began to compete for the singles round of 16, in the women's singles competition, the national table tennis has always imitated Ito Mimachi's long rubber big player He Zhuojia after 4 rounds of hard fighting to defeat Canada's Chinese veteran Zhang Mo 3-1 (11-5/4-11/11-8/11-8), waiting for Chen Meng to compete for the top 8 seat. Zheng Yijing, the first sister of Chinese Taipei in the national table tennis sister team, unexpectedly encountered a bitter battle, facing Brazil's Takahashi Bruna, playing 4 sets before 3-1 (11-8/8-11/11-5/11-11-8) waded through the danger.
He Zhuojia is an important imitator and sparring partner of the national table tennis women's team in the Tokyo Olympic cycle in order to study and deal with Ito Mimako, in fact, He Zhuojia not only imitates Ito Mimachi, but in view of the characteristics of the Japanese women's team's multiple raw glue and long rubber players, he changed the rubber to a strange clap of half-long glue and half-raw rubber. He Zhuojia also got a lot of opportunities to appear on the international stage in 2019, and achieved a relatively good record in the international arena, especially in the 2019 year-end finals also achieved the runner-up of the women's singles, which is the best competition so far, and the world ranking has also once come to 12th, but with the approaching of the Tokyo Olympic Games, He Zhuojia is not the main force, the number of participants has dropped sharply, the world ranking has also slipped to about 20th, and now as a wild card player appears in the Grand Slam, The first round of women's singles matchup defeated Grandma-level player Ni Xialian, who also played raw rubber.
The opponent of He Zhuojia in the second round of women's singles is still not a first-class strong opponent, but Zhang Mo, a veteran of Chinese descent in Canada, Zhang Mo does not have too many bright results in the intercontinental events in Central and North America, mainly because the American team has Wang Amy, Zhang An and other players, the overall strength is above Zhang Mo, but Zhang Mo has represented the Canadian team in the three Olympic Games in London, Rio and Tokyo, and is also a full-fledged veteran. Although He Zhuojia ranked higher than his opponent, the process of this game was not easy, Zhang Mo's adaptation to raw glue was very in place, and he played a draw in the first 2 innings, but in the last 2 innings, He Zhuojia accelerated significantly, and won with crushing strength, and the next round of opponents will be the winner between Chen Meng and the host player Zeng Jian.
Zheng Yijing, a sister of Chinese Taipei who was once ranked in the top 10 in the world, played against Brazil's Takahashi Bruna in this round, this match was originally thought to have no suspenseful result, and finally played 4 sets, Takahashi Bruna drew with Zheng Yijing in the first 2 innings, and Zheng Yijing struggled to win. Zheng Yijing once won the women's singles runner-up of the World Cup, but in the World Championships and Olympic Games and the recent women's singles field, basically did not reach the top 8 results, many competitions have not yet encountered national table tennis players to get out of the early game, the world ranking has also further retreated, has now slipped to 12th.
In addition to the women's singles, Zheng Yijing also participates in the mixed doubles competition as the number one seed partner Lin Yunru, which is not in the same half as the national table tennis king Chu Qin/Sun Yingsha, if the play is normal, then the two strongest pairs will compete for the champion of the grand slam mixed doubles.