On March 15, Beijing time, the WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament continued, sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu competed in the women's doubles event, against South Korea's Tian Zhixi and Liang Xiayin. At present, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu are the new TKNOW combination of the WTT arena, the two have just won the championship in the women's doubles event of the World Table Tennis Championships, with strong strength, and the two are also the top 4 players in the world in the active women's singles, of which Sun Yingsha is the 1st in the world and Wang Manyu is 4th in the world.
In the first set, the two sides fell into a stalemate early, starting 3-3, and then Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu made consecutive mistakes, resulting in a 3-5 fall behind. At this time, the strongest women's doubles pair of national table tennis did not panic, improved the offensive strength and scored 4 points in a row, hitting the score to a 7-5 lead and mastering the absolute initiative. However, Tian Zhixi and Liang Xiayin did not give up, and played against Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu, and finally won the first set with a 12-10 reversal, leading 1-0.
Entering the second set, Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu opened the offensive mode, came up to score 3 points in a row, 3-0 after the start was 7-1, 8-3, did not give Tian Zhixi and Liang Xiayin a chance, completely grasped the game initiative, the Korean combination had no power to fight back. In the end, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu easily won the second set 11-7, and the big score came to a 1-1 draw.
In the third set of the tournament, similar to the script of the second set, Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu attacked violently, 3-1 to start, followed by 5-2, using the active attack to take advantage, provoking opponents to play together, the pace of the game was rapid, 7-4 was 10-6, Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu continued to lead. In the end, 11-6, another set was won, at this time, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu had a big lead of 2-1.
Coming to the fourth set of the game is Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu's match point game, Tian Zhixi and Liang Xiayin backwater battle, played a 4-2 start, not afraid to attack with Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, the game once again fell into a glue, the score was beaten to 3-6 behind, Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu requested a timeout adjustment. Subsequently, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu were chased to 6-8 after falling behind 3-7 and playing the suspense of the game again. After that, it was chased to a 9-9 draw, the South Korean team called a timeout adjustment, and in the end, Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu won the fourth set 11-9, and the big score was 3-1 to eliminate the Korean combination and reach the women's doubles semifinals!
After this match, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha successfully reached the women's doubles semifinals, with the possibility of impacting the championship. For Sun Yingsha, this is also her 6 consecutive wins in this Singapore Grand Slam tournament, of which the women's singles Sun Yingsha played in the round of 16, will play against veteran Liu Shiwen, will be a strong dialogue within the national table tennis. In the mixed doubles, Sun Yingsha is the partner Wang Chuqin, who has also reached the semi-finals, just as likely to impact the championship. The third-tier match has won 6 consecutive wins, which is enough to reflect Sun Yingsha's excellence. The last time she played in the World Table Tennis Championships, Sun Yingsha played in 3 competitions at the same time, and finally won 2 championships and 1 runner-up, with a total score of 2 gold and 1 silver. Nowadays, Sun Yingsha is expected to create good results again, and even impact the achievement of the 3 crowns, as the active women's singles world No. 1, Sun Yingsha is not impossible, looking forward to the performance of the little devil!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)