The first women's singles semi-final of the WTT Grand Slam tournament has ended, and Chen Meng narrowly defeated Wang Yidi 4-3 to advance to the final. The fact that the two were able to reach the decider showed that the two sides played equally well, and there was no real winner in this game. The technical gap can no longer be seen, and it can only be said that Chen Meng's experience in the semi-finals is slightly stronger than that of Wang Yidi, especially changing the old problem of slow heat, and even taking two sets to take the lead.
Since winning the Olympic women's singles title, Chen Meng has been questioned for a sharp decline in strength, last year's Houston World Table Tennis Championships did not qualify for the final, the WTT World Cup final also missed the final, personal performance is not as good as Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu. However, in the first Grand Slam tournament, Chen Meng not only eliminated hitomi Sato and Ishikawa Yoshinori, the two main japanese table tennis players, but also withstood the pressure of the semi-finals, which is conducive to eliminating the impact of the loss in the past six months. Most importantly, it will continue to gain the trust of the coaching staff.
Due to the very short time of the Paris cycle, the Olympic Games will be launched in 2 years, and the competitive pressure faced by Chen Meng can be imagined. Now Wang Manyu has won the singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships, and Sun Yingsha has won the singles runner-up of the four major events of the National Games, the Olympic Games, the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup. Therefore, the results of the competition before the Olympic Games are crucial and will directly affect Chen Meng's competition for the Olympic singles quota.
And after winning the game, Chen Meng believes that Wang Yidi played very well, and it is not easy to win the game, which is enough to see that Wang Yidi's strength has increased greatly recently. In the last Olympic cycle, Wang Yidi was still an ordinary national player, but after Ding Ning retired, Zhu Yuling has not returned, Liu Shiwen is in a semi-retired state, and Wang Yidi ushered in the opportunity to take the position. Wang Yidi is not only a change in identity, but the results of the competition are worthy of the identity of the main force.
Last year's World Table Tennis Championships advanced to the singles final four, the WTT World Cup final won the runner-up, and won the Slovenian women's singles championship, which is the performance of Wang Yidi's progress. If Wang Yidi used to just catch up with the promotion of the main force at a good time, now she has become an opponent that Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Chen Meng cannot ignore, and it is too difficult to win her. In this way, Wang Yidi also laid the foundation for his competition for Olympic places. Judging from the situation of the last Olympic Games, until the last year, it is not known who the national table tennis sent to the Olympic Games.
For example, the defending champion Chen Meng, it seems that participating in the Paris Olympic Games is not a big problem, but in fact it is full of crises. Because there are only three places in the Olympic Games, even if Chen Xingtong is not a competitor, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, and Wang Yidi are all competitors in the Olympic Games for the second time. Therefore, as long as Wang Yidi maintains his current competitive state, he can at least get the Olympic P card. As for whether you can participate in the main competition, it also depends on the competition between the four people.