The inaugural WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament continues on March 17. With the progress of the competition, it has now reached the women's singles quarterfinal stage, and on the afternoon of March 17, the first women's singles quarterfinals was played, and the two sides of the competition were Chinese Wang Yidi and French Chinese player Yuan Jiannan.
Many fans are not familiar with Yuan Jiannan, and do not know what skills she has, but she can defeat the strongest opponent of Chinese women's table tennis in the previous competition.
In fact, Yuan Jiannan had a wonderful performance in last year's Tokyo Olympic Games, her mixed doubles combination with Belsun, all the way to the Olympic Mixed Doubles Final Four, but lost to Liu Shiwen Xu Xin in the semifinals!
Therefore, it is no accident that Yuan Jiannan was able to defeat Ito In this Grand Slam tournament, although she has never entered the Chinese national team, but her strength is still not to be underestimated.
And Wang Yidi is very familiar to everyone, it can be said that she has been firmly in the main layer of Chinese women's table tennis, she once defeated the ST Olympic singles champion Chen Meng in this year's WTT Macau Competition, with extraordinary strength! He also swept Mitakami Ito 4-0 at last year's World Table Tennis Championships in Houston.
At the beginning of the game, the two sides competed very fiercely, after 3 draws, Wang Yidi launched a fierce attack, Yuan Jiannan made some mistakes, and Wang Yidi took a 7-5 lead.
But Yuan Jianan also played very tenaciously, gradually chasing the score to 8 draws, after 8 draws, Wang Yidi scored 2 consecutive points, taking the lead in 10-8 to get the set point, although Yuan Jiannan saved a set point, but Wang Yidi still won the first set with an 11-9 score!
In the second set of the game, the two sides fought again in different places, the two sides fell into a fierce battle again, and in the middle stage, Wang Yidi took a 5-4 lead.
In the face of Wang Yidi's vigorous attack, Yuan Jiannan is still lacking in strength, and Wang Yidi leads 7-6.
However, Yuan Jiannan did not give up the game, but tightly grasped the score, and did not let Wang Yidila make a big difference, and the two sides fought fiercely all the way to 10 draws.
At the critical moment, Wang Yidi shot more decisively, scoring two consecutive points, winning another round with a thrilling score of 12-10, and leading 2-0!
In the third set, Wang Yidi's attack was still very threatening, and he took a 3-1 lead shortly after the opening, at which point Yuan Jiannan was forced to call a timeout.
Back from the suspension, Yuan Jiannan is still difficult to stop Wang Yidi's attack, 5-3, Wang Yidi continues to lead!
In the game, Yuan Jianan's high throwing serve is still very characteristic, Wang Yidi has eaten the other party's serve many times, and Yuan Jianan gradually chased the score to 8 draws.
After the 8 draw, Wang Yidi stepped up the rhythm of the attack, scoring two consecutive points to win the match point of the whole game 10-8.
Yuan Jianan threw the ball high, Wang Yidi received the ball out of bounds, Yuan Jiannan saved a match point, and the off-field coach Qiu Yike at this time quickly helped Wang Yidi call a timeout.
Yuan Jiannan saved a match point again after the suspension, and the score came to 10 draws! Yuan Jiannan continued to put pressure on Wang Yidi, scored another point, and won the score 11-10! Wang Yidi was not soft and tied the score again!
After 12 draws, Yuan Jiannan continued to exert his strength, with a 13-12 draw to get the set point, a key goal, Yuan Jianan returned a rubbing tennis ball, with a 14-12 score to win back a set!
10-8 to get the match point, but was pulled back by the opponent to a set, which is undoubtedly a huge pressure for Wang Yidi, perhaps not satisfied with the performance of the end of the third set, Wang Yidi still did not come out of the shadow of defeat in the fourth set, and was started by Yuan Jiannan to play 0-4!
Yuan Jianan, on the other hand, was boosted in morale, fighting more and more courageously, and achieved a 6-2 lead! I hope Wang Yidi can calm down and stop tangling with the third game that was lost! Otherwise, the situation on the field is dangerous!
Wang Yidi was too anxious, many good opportunities were not seized, there were too many undue mistakes, Yuan Jiannan led all the way, and achieved an 8-4 lead.
Wang Yidi struggled to catch up, and finally chased the score to 8 draws! After 9 draws, one of Wang Yidi's forehand attack scores once again won the match point 10-9!
Wang Yidi is still too anxious, a good offensive opportunity, Wang Yidi lost the ball again, Yuan Jiannan chased the score to 10 draws! This time, Wang Yidi did not miss the opportunity again, and after 10 draws, he was very decisive, scoring two points in a row and winning the final victory with a score of 12-10!
In this game, although Yuan Jiannan eventually lost the game, in the game, Yuan Jianan's performance was still very good, whether it was a backhand serve or a high throw, which left a deep impression on us.
Although Wang Yidi finally won the victory, in the third set of the game, holding two match points was reversed by the opponent, which also shows that Wang Yidi was a little less resolute at the critical moment.
But being able to reverse in the fourth innings and win the whole game, Wang Yidi's performance was still very good.
In this way, Wang Yidi will advance to the final four first, and her semi-final opponent will be the winner between Chen Meng and Ishikawa Jiajun.
Is it Chen Meng or Ishikawa Yoshinori who can advance to the final four? Let's wait and see!