A few days ago, the 2022 WTT Singapore Grand Slam Women's Doubles Championship runner-up battle came to an end, and in the end, the Chinese team "Seafood Sister Flower" Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha kept three clean sheets from Japan's Hayada Hina and Ito Mimachi, winning the first women's doubles championship of the season. At the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships, the two pairs met in the final, and Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha opened up and swept the Japanese duo to defend the Women's Doubles Champion of the World Championships. Judging from the current competition pattern of women's doubles in the world table tennis, the combination of Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha and the combination of Ito Mimakoto and Hayata Hina of the Japanese team are the most prominent, and the two pairs may be a pair of old enemies in the entire Paris Olympic cycle.
Previously, in the women's singles semifinals, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha turned into plastic sister flowers in seconds. The two won and lost after seven rounds of battle, and in the end, Wang Manyu defeated Sun Yingsha to advance to the final. Wang Manyu said in an interview after the game that no matter who wins the women's singles and Sun Yingsha, the women's doubles final will go all out, from opponents to mutually trusting teammates. In this women's doubles final, as predicted by fans before the game, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, Ito Mimachi and Hayata Hina fought as promised.
In the women's doubles final of the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha defeated Ito and Hina Hayata in three straight sets. Therefore, the two sides are not strangers in technical and tactical play. Ito's disappointment in the women's singles tournament was a surprise, and she also said before the match that she hoped to play well in the women's doubles final. After the game began, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu took the initiative to use the serve without introducing tactics to control the opponent's hitting point, and played their own characteristics of attacking fiercely with both front and backhands, firmly suppressing Ito Andema and Hayata On the field. In the first set, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha were always in the lead in the score and easily won 11:4.
In the second set, Ito and Hina Hayata stepped up the change in the ball's landing point, but Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha did not mess up with themselves, but with their strong singles strength, they withstood the opponent's counterattack. Some fans said that it is not only that the strength of Ito Mimako, who has been closed for half a year, has not only not grown, but has declined a lot, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that it is no longer the opponent of the national table tennis women's team. Sun Yingsha's forehand power did not decrease, Wang Manyu's backhand was extremely fast, and the two won another set 11:6 after scoring multiple attacks. Subsequently, the two golden flowers of the Chinese team took advantage of the victory to pursue, so that Ito and Hayata Hina did not see the slightest chance to win.
Everyone laughed, "Directly award the prize, the Japanese team does not intend to win at all, the Chinese team did not think it would lose"! In the end, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha swept the opponent again and won the women's doubles championship of this competition. From the beginning of the 2019 World Championships to the 2022 Singapore Grand Slam, the women's doubles formed by Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha has become an insurmountable mountain for Ito and Hina Hayata. With excellent performance, Sun Yingsha won the women's doubles and mixed doubles titles in the first leg of the season, while Wang Manyu had the opportunity to win the women's singles championship while winning the women's doubles title. In any case, the national table tennis women's team in the Paris cycle will be the world of Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha!
(Luo Treasurer)