On March 16, Beijing time, the ITTF Singapore Grand Slam tournament was underway. At present, the list of eight strong individual items has been released for 5 seats. In the women's singles, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, Hina Hayata, Yuan Jiannan, and Wang Manyu took the lead in advancing to the top eight list. Among them, Olympic champion Ito Mimachi was out of the game, and the total score was 1:3 against the French Chinese veteran Yuan Jiannan, and Ito Mimachi had no chance to play with the national table tennis.
In the battle for the eight-place seat, Ito Mimachi faced the Chinese veteran Yuan Jiannan, Ito Mimachi won the first set, losing three consecutive sets 7:11, 8:11, 7:11, 7:11, and the world's third Ito Mimachi was 1:3 on aggregate and did not have the opportunity to advance, stopping the women's singles round of 16. Interestingly, before the game, Yuan Jiannan's friend Shan Xiaona had always encouraged Yuan Jianan to be successful, and sure enough, Shan Xiaona predicted success. At present, Ito Mimachi also has the women's doubles event to advance to the final four.
In terms of national table tennis, Chen Meng eliminated teammate He Zhuojia 3:0 on aggregate and successfully advanced. After the game, He Zhuojia directly called Mengjie not to give herself a chance at all. Today, Chen Meng refused to slow down and played a relatively strong role. Chen Meng laughed and joked that because teammates are more familiar with each other, they have some habits of catching each other when they are on the field, and every point cannot be relaxed. Next, Chen Meng will face the winner between Zheng Yijing and Ishikawa Jiachun, and Chen Meng said that he would do his best.
Wang Yidi eliminated Germany's Ham 3:0 on aggregate and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals. However, Wang Yidi will not have the opportunity to fight with Ito Mimakoto next, and Wang Yidi will face the French veteran Yuan Jiannan. Wang Manyu performed well, eliminating Puerto Rican teenager Diaz 3:0 on aggregate, CCTV commentary Hou Yingchao praised Wang Manyu, Wang Manyu's serve opportunity did not have any loopholes, Diaz did not exceed 5 points in a single set.
After the game, Wang Manyu still modestly said that his current performance is not the best. This is the first time wang Manyu has played against Diaz in his career, so he is more well prepared. Diaz has trained in the national table tennis women's team and received guidance from Liu Guoliang, Li Falcon, Ma Lin and others. Wang Manyu admitted that he had fully estimated and judged his opponent in terms of technology and tactics. Next, Wang Manyu will face the winner between Thailand's Sutasini and Austria's Polkanova.
At present, 12 world champions have been eliminated from the singles of the Grand Slam Open, namely Chen Xingtong, Lin Gaoyuan, Zhuang Zhiyuan, Chen Jian'an, Ni Xialian, Feng Tianwei, Liang Xiayin, Falke, Boer, Hirano Miyu, Wang Chuqin, ito Mimako. In terms of national table tennis, the women's singles He Zhuojia, Ku Man, Chen Xingtong were eliminated, and the men's singles Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Lin Shidong, Xiang Peng and other four people were eliminated.