WTT Singapore Grand Slam women's singles semi-final, the national table tennis women's single sister Chen Meng against the world's fifth-ranked national table tennis teammate Wang Yidi, in the previous semifinals, Wang Yidi and Chen Meng were 3-1 to defeat the opponent, for the national table tennis to win the top four of this grand slam, the two after 7 rounds of duel, and finally Chen Meng refused Wang Yidi reversal, 4-3 narrow victory, completed the revenge plan, advanced to the final, her opponent will be the winner of Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu.
Chen Meng and Wang Yidi had a fight in last year's World Cup, and the same venue as this competition, when Wang Yidi defeated Chen Meng in the semi-finals, and the two met again, for Chen Meng, in addition to revenge, more importantly, she has to prove herself, after all, within this year, she has lost successive games, the world ranking has a downward trend, she wants to prove to the national table tennis, she is still a single sister, and Wang Yidi is her peak in the past year, whether facing Chen Meng or Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu has played very well. In this year's Grand Slam, in the face of Chen Meng, whose ranking strength is higher than her own, she wants to prove herself again.
At the beginning of the first set, Chen Meng changed the previous slow and hot state, successive fast attacks made Wang Yidi completely unresponsive, and Wang Yidi faced Chen Meng, completely out of state, and there were many unprovoked mistakes, which gave Chen Meng the opportunity to open the score difference from 5 to 0, all the way to 10 to 10, there was no chance for Wang Yidi, although Wang Yidi was saving two match points, but he still lost the first set 11-3.
In the second set, Wang Yidi adjusted many times, the two sides began to draw, but with the deepening of the game, Wang Yidi had problems again, mistakes in contention, backhand deviation, Chen Meng scored 4 points, Wang Yidi took the initiative to suspend the adjustment, and after the suspension, scored 4 points in a row, constantly narrowing the point difference, at the critical moment, Chen Meng broke out again strongly, 13-11, two cities in a row. In the third set, Wang Yidi also fell behind in the beginning, but fortunately she made adjustments in time, forced Chen Meng to make mistakes with her own strong attack, Wang Yidi achieved a rebound, and maintained the lead, and finally won back a set 11-9.
In the fourth set, Chen Meng made a threat again, scoring 5 points in a row at the beginning, and Wang Yidi adjusted many times, but to no avail, 5-0. 7-1, all the way up to 11-4, Chen Meng won the match point 3-1. In the fifth set, Chen Meng began to lead, but this time Wang Yidi was not beaten, but resisted Chen Meng's attack, and used his own defense to play a strong counterattack, in the last few goals to achieve a counter-attack, and scored 2 consecutive points, 12-10 to win back a set. In the 6th set, Chen Meng also led the start, but Wang Yidi equalized and reversed the score, the two played until 7-7, and Wang Yidi scored 4 consecutive points at the critical moment, 11-8, and equalized. In the decider, the two began to alternately lead, Chen Meng began to exert force in the middle of the section, maintaining a 2-point lead, and finally 11-8, taking another set, the big score was 4-3 to eliminate Wang Yidi, and advanced to the final.
In this game, Wang Yidi's loss is not inferior to people, but too many mistakes, in the face of Chen Meng did not play his own advantage points, especially the first and fourth innings, completely targeted by Chen Meng, although his tactics did well in the 5th and 6th innings, but the continuity was not as good as Chen Meng, especially to the critical moment, Chen Meng showed his stability, the reason why a sister is a sister, is the more she is stronger at the critical moment, congratulations to Chen Meng, I hope Wang Yidi continues to work hard.