On March 15, Beijing time, the WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament continued, and Japan's Ito Mimachi competed in the women's singles round of 16 against The French Chinese player Yuan Jiannan. In the first set of the match, world no. 3 Ito Mimako relied on excellent personal strength to quickly get into the form and easily won the first set 11-5, leading 1-0.
But the game began to change suddenly from the second set, Yuan Jiannan did not fear it Ito's attack, began to play against each other, the two sides fell into a stalemate, the score once hit 6-6 draw, after a timeout adjustment, Yuan Jiannan was more determined to impact Ito's confidence, scored consecutively, hit 9-7. In the end, Yuan Jiannan won the second set 11-7, playing a 5-0 for the opponent, and the big score became 1-1.
Due to the win in the second set to improve morale, from the third set, Yuan Jiannan began to have the upper hand, there is a great psychological advantage, on the contrary, Ito Mimachi began to panic, obviously the comprehensive strength is stronger, but constantly missed points, Yuan Jianan took the opportunity to play an 8-3 score, directly 11-8 to win the third set, the big score reversed to a 2-1 lead. At this time, Ito Mimachi was completely confused, and then in the fourth set, Yuan Jiannan did not give Ito a chance, directly hit a 9-2 lead, a completely overwhelming victory, and finally 11-7, Yuan Jiannan won another set, and the big score was 3-1 to eliminate Ito Mimachi and reach the women's singles quarterfinals.
It is worth mentioning that in this game, Ito Mimachi was photographed by the scene camera drinking water in a suspension process, looking very depressed, when Ito Mimachi was in a bad situation, forced to call a timeout, listen to the coach's rearrangement. At this time, Ito Mimachi drank water, his expression was very sad, obviously, Ito Mimachi did not expect to lose this game, will stop in the round of 16.
The upset stopped the women's singles round of 16, Ito Mimachi's women's singles journey to the Singapore Grand Slam is undoubtedly lonely, after all, the Japanese table tennis sister, currently ranked No. 3 in the world, is the favorite to win the tournament, but stopped in the round of 16. Originally, Ito Mimachi reached the top 8 and had the opportunity to duel against the national table tennis champion Wang Yidi, before, in the World Table Tennis Championships, Ito Mimachi was eliminated by Wang Yidi in the 8th round stage, and could have completed revenge this time. But Ito didn't even make it to the quarterfinals.
As the world's 3rd player in the active women's singles, Ito Mimachi's world ranking is second only to the two Olympic champions Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng, but the Performance of the Japanese Sister has been very poor recently, stopping in the top 8 in the World Table Tennis Championships, not even winning medals, and even losing to the young players in the national selection tournament in Japan, and the Singapore Grand Slam event has stopped in the round of 16. Obviously, Ito is at the trough of his sports career and is beginning to lose his former strength, and if he cannot survive this threshold, Ito may be invisible and stagnant.
After Ito Mimachi is out, in the half of the district, the remaining players who have the opportunity to get a final place are Wang Yidi and Chen Meng, which means that China's national table tennis has the opportunity to lock in the women's singles champion and runner-up of this competition in advance, and the national table tennis women will once again show their dominance!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)