The ITTF WTT Singapore Grand Slam Tournament ended the penultimate matchday competition, the national table tennis won another gold medal in the doubles competition, the men's doubles team Wang Chuqin / Fan Zhendong defeated the Japanese combination Yukiya Utada / Tokami Hayabusa 3:1 to win the Grand Slam championship, which is also the second gold medal won by the national table tennis team in this competition. In the attention-grabbing women's singles semifinals competition, the four women's singles players of the national table tennis dedicated two wonderful matches to the fans, and the two semi-finals were played until the decider to divide the winners, and the Olympic champion Chen Meng defeated Wang Yidi 4:3 to lock in a final seat. And the world's number one "post-00s" young player Sun Yingsha failed to seize the opportunity in the match with her due level doubles partner Wang Manyu, and finally lost to the opponent 3:4, missing the women's singles final, which is also Sun Yingsha's first loss to Wang Manyu in the international competition after losing to the opponent in the women's singles final of the World Table Tennis Championships, Sun Yingsha does have a lot of places to improve, Wang Manyu is to continue the strong performance of the last year or so, she will launch an impact on her first Grand Slam singles champion.
In the semi-final with Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha actually had a good chance, Wang Manyu was obviously affected by the weakness of the opponent in the previous rounds, Sun Yingsha easily won the first game and then led by a large score in the second set, the result was that her own state fluctuated, and when she led 8:4 in the second set, she was bombarded by the opponent to an 8:2 and regrettably lost, after reversing this round, Wang Manyu's momentum was obvious, and then Wang Manyu reversed the passive situation many times, although Sun Yingsha saved the match point many times in the game to equalize Although Sun Yingsha has performed very steadily in the past year or so, reaching four consecutive women's singles finals, but in the face of Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, who are equal to their comprehensive strength, it is difficult to win, Sun Yingsha wants to win the championship, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu are the "two mountains" that she cannot avoid.
After losing the women's singles semi-final with Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha suffered a "triple blow", not only did she not have the opportunity to compete for the first so-called "Grand Slam" championship in the history of table tennis, but she will lose the world number one throne in women's singles in the new world rankings. Before the Singapore Grand Slam, although Sun Yingsha ranked first in the world, the point gap between her and Chen Meng was only about 300 points, the points of this Grand Slam tournament were equivalent to the "three major competitions", the champion and the runner-up, the runner-up and the final four had a gap of six or seven hundred points, even if Chen Meng lost to Wang Manyu in the women's singles final, her points will also surpass Sun Yingsha who stopped in the top four and return to the world first, at the beginning of this year, Sun Yingsha's world ranking surpassed Chen Meng to the world first, and three months later Chen Meng's world ranking surpassed Sun Yingsha. Although the national table tennis team will participate in the Doha Challenge after the Singapore Grand Slam, because the doha challenge points are too low, it is difficult for Sun Yingsha to surpass Chen Meng and return to the world first place in the short term.
After losing the women's singles semi-final with Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha's worst news is not that she did not win the women's singles final, nor did she lose the world number one, but lost the initiative to compete for the women's singles qualification at the Hangzhou Asian Games. According to the relevant regulations of national table tennis before the start of the Grand Slam, the players who won the singles competition of the Singapore Grand Slam will "go straight" to the Hangzhou Asian Games men's and women's singles qualifications, which means that Sun Yingsha has no way to get the Asian Games women's singles qualification for the first time, although the Asian Games and the Olympic Games are not the same day, but the Asian Games is after all a quadrennial comprehensive games, and this year's Asian Games is carried out in China, the significance is very special. Sun Yingsha can only hope to participate in the Asian Games in the world ranking after the Doha Challenge, but because the world ranking has been surpassed by Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha relies on the world ranking to qualify for the Asian Games singles competition and has no initiative.
If Chen Meng loses to Wang Manyu in the women's singles final, then Wang Manyu's singles title of this tournament will lock in an Asian Games singles spot, and she has a chance to defend the Asian Games singles champion. Sun Yingsha's world ranking is lower than Chen Meng's, and if you want to surpass Chen Meng in the world ranking after the Doha Challenge, you can only hope that Chen Meng will be out of the game early, which is very unlikely, and Sun Yingsha's competition for the Asian Games women's singles qualification has completely lost the initiative. If Sun Yingsha wants to rely on the world ranking to get the Asian Games women's singles qualification, then it is necessary to hope that Chen Meng will defeat Wang Manyu in the Grand Slam women's singles final, because Wang Manyu's points have some distance from Sun Yingsha, if Chen Meng takes the lead in getting an Asian Games women's singles qualification, then Sun Yingsha can rely on the world ranking to get the Asian Games singles qualification. Judging from the recent confrontation records between Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, it is very difficult for Chen Meng to defeat Wang Manyu, since last year, Wang Manyu has defeated Chen Meng in the competition for five consecutive times, including the National Games and the Women's Singles Semifinals of the World Table Tennis Championships. Let's wait and see!