Chen Meng won the championship to "save" Sun Yingsha, and the two Olympic champions went straight to the Asian Games! Wang Manyu was defeated. In the women's singles final of the 2022 WTT Singapore Grand Slam, the national table tennis Olympic champion Chen Meng staged the return of the king, narrowly defeated Wang Manyu 4-3 and won the women's singles championship, after Chen Meng lost to Wang Manyu for 3 consecutive times, but this time Chen Meng persisted to the end, while winning the women's singles championship of the Grand Slam, he also locked the qualification for the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Since this Grand Slam is linked to the Asian Games singles qualification tournament, the competition between national table tennis players is also very fierce. Chen Meng is currently ranked second in the world and Wang Manyu is ranked fourth in the world, in the previous semi-finals, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu have both suffered bitter battles, of which Chen Meng narrowly defeated Wang Yidi 4-3 and Wang Manyu narrowly defeated Sun Yingsha 4-3. Originally, Chen Meng was only more than 300 points less than Sun Yingsha, but Sun Yingsha stopped in the top 4 and could only get 700 points, and Chen Meng had at least 1400 points in the finals, so Chen Meng, whether he could win the championship or not, would return to the world number one in the latest world rankings, so Chen Meng had actually locked the singles qualification for the Hangzhou Asian Games in advance, but Chen Meng still wanted to win the Grand Slam championship to prove himself. In the first set, Chen Meng took the lead in the state, leading 7-3, and then Wang Manyu launched a counterattack, once chasing the score to a 9-9 draw, at the critical moment, Chen Meng scored 2 consecutive points to win the first set 11-9.
In the second set, the two fought fiercely in the opening stage, the score once became 5-5, and then Wang Manyu scored 2 consecutive points to take the lead, although Chen Meng caught up with the score again, but there was a mistake at the key moment, Wang Manyu seized the opportunity to win back a set 11-8. In the third set, Wang Manyu led 6-3, Chen Meng stepped up the attack, chased the score to 8-8, and then scored 2 consecutive points to get the set point 10-8, Wang Manyu saved a set point, and Chen Meng won another set 11-9. In the fourth set, the competition between the two was still fierce, when Chen Meng won the set point 10-8, Wang Manyu called a timeout, but this did not affect Chen Meng, after the game restarted, Chen Meng won the set 11-8, the total score of 3-1 lead. In the fifth set, the two were still very fierce in the opening stages, and when the score was 4-4, Wang Manyu scored 6 consecutive points to get the set point, and won another set at 11-6.
In the sixth set, the two fought all the way to a 7-7 draw, and then Wang Manyu scored 3 consecutive points to win the set point and won 11-9, dragging the game into the decider. In the decider, Chen Meng led 7-2, Wang Manyu fought back and launched a counterattack, Chen Meng withstood the pressure, and finally locked up the victory 11-8, thus winning 4-3 on aggregate and winning the women's singles championship. In the latest edition of the world rankings, Chen Meng will return to the world first, Sun Yingsha will fall to the second place, wang Manyu will come to the third place, so that Sun Yingsha will rely on the world ranking to force Wang Manyu to qualify for the Asian Games.