On the afternoon of March 17, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Grand Slam tournament continued, and the national table tennis star Wang Yidi took the lead in competing for the first ticket to the singles semifinals, and her opponent was Yuan Jianan, a French-American athlete who had previously created a super cold goal and reversed the collapse of Olympic champion Ito Mimachi.
The two sides fought very fiercely in this battle, constantly deciding on the key points, but the level of the main force of the active national table tennis is higher after all, and Wang Yidi's mental outlook is far better than that of Ito Mimako, although the 2-0 lead is forced by the other side step by step, and each game wins only has a slight advantage of 2 points, but she finally eliminated Yuan Jiannan by a big score of 3-1, thus becoming the first athlete to advance to the final four.
Yuan Jianan is the dark horse of this Grand Slam, and at the age of 36, she is only ranked 67th in the world, but she eliminated the world's No. 3 Ito Mimachi, which is impressive. Because its playing style is a rare horizontal forehand forehand glue and backhand anti-glue in the table tennis world, the average person will be somewhat unfamiliar, and this battle King Yidi must not underestimate the other party.
After the game began, Yuan Jiannan's high throwing serve and forehand fast attack and fast bounce did create a threat to Wang Yidi, but relatively speaking, the ball path of positive glue was still quite positive, not as strange as raw glue and long glue, so Wang Yidi could still predict the rotation of the opponent in general, but there was still an uncomfortable situation in speed and rhythm, after all, it was rare to encounter opponents in this style of play.
After a fierce competition, Wang Yidi gradually occupied the advantage in the first set, and although Yuan Jianan struggled to chase it to the point of only 1 point, he still lost 9-11 in the end, and the national table tennis side won the initiative on the field, which naturally made many fans who worried about Wang Yidi breathe a sigh of relief.
In the second set, the two sides still played difficult to score, but Wang Yidi still maintained the lead after the start, Yuan Jiannan was obviously suppressed in rotation, but she still stubbornly achieved a reversal with the change of rhythm, but Wang Yidi was not willing to show weakness, using a strong arc ball attack to break through the opponent's defense line, and then won 12-10 again, with a big score of 2-0 to force the opponent into a desperate situation.
In the third set, Yuan Jiannan fought backwaters, Wang Yidi did not dare to underestimate, after all, Ito Mimachi was reversed in three consecutive sets in the case of 1-0 lead, so it is not ruled out that Yuan Jiannan staged another good play of overturning. Wang Yidi quickly took a 3-1 lead after the start of the match, and French coach Erlois (a former male table tennis player who won Liu Guoliang at the World Table Tennis Championships) quickly called out a timeout to make adjustments.
After returning to the field, Yuan Jiannan continued to strengthen the quality of the fight, the attack was very fierce, the forehand fast hit, the backhand fast dial once made Wang Yidi seem to be overwhelmed, but at the same time, the mistakes also began to increase, the win seemed to be cheerful, and the loss was also very fast-paced.
After several rounds of competition, Wang Yidi finally resisted Yuan Jiannan's backwater battle. But when she got the match point 10-8, she was chased by the other side to only 1 point, and the national table tennis side also called a timeout to adjust, but then was overtaken by the other side 11-10. The subsequent 12-14 defeat was chased back by the other side for a round!
In the fourth set, Yuan Jiannan really began to threaten, and it was rare to force Wang Yidi into a dangerous situation as soon as he came up, and he scored the score to a 6-2, 8-4 lead, at this time Wang Yidi had no chance to pause, which also made people pinch a sweat for her: Is it possible that the tragedy of Ito Mimachi's reversal will be repeated?
In the face of difficulties, Wang Yidi strengthened the quality of the attack, and then scored 4 consecutive points to chase down 8-8 draws, but then there was a return ball error to fall behind the score. At the critical moment, Wang Yidi gritted his teeth and insisted, and finally won the match point 10-9, but was quickly chased to a 10-10 draw, fortunately, this time he finally did not give the opponent another chance, and finally locked up the victory at 12-10, and there was no danger to get the promotion: it was really hanging!
How to say it, Yuan Jiannan can beat Ito Mimachi to break into the quarterfinals with the "advanced age" of 36 years old, and wang Yidi has been very good, although she lost the game, she still let us see the power of the horizontal shooting method, although the defeat was Still Rong. Finally, congratulations to Wang Yidi again, looking forward to her continued efforts to impact the women's singles champion of this competition: come on!