At WTT's inaugural Singapore Grand Slam, 28-year-old Chen Meng showed horrific strength, after beating Wang Yidi 4-3 in the women's singles semifinals, she defeated Wang Manyu 4-3 in the women's singles final to win the women's singles championship in Singapore.
While Chen Meng won this women's singles championship, there were two great news one after another, the first is that Chen Meng has returned to the first place in the world ranking, and the second good news is that Chen Meng was the first to take the lead in qualifying for the women's singles competition at this year's Asian Games!
In particular, the women's singles qualification for the Asian Games also means that Chen Meng is expected to make up for the regrets of four years ago!
At the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, the Chinese women's table tennis at that time was in the cultivation of young athletes, and instead of sending Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen, the absolute main forces of women's table tennis at that time, to participate, they sent Chen Meng, who was 24 years old at the time, and Zhu Yuling, 23, to lead a group of young players to participate.
At that time, the female table tennis girls participating in the Asian Games were Zhu Yuling, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha and Chen Xingtong, five athletes. Chen Meng, the oldest athlete among the participants at the time, participated in the women's singles competition with Wang Manyu.
In the women's singles competition, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu played well and successfully met in the final.
In the final, Chen Meng entered the state slowly in the first set, losing the first set 7-11, but from the second set of the game, Chen Meng's state quickly improved.
Chen Meng won three consecutive sets with 11-5, 16-14 and 11-7 scores to achieve a 3-1 lead.
Seeing that Chen Mengsheng was in his hands, Wang Manyu suddenly began to exert his strength at this time, and won a set back with an 11-6 score.
In the sixth set, Chen Meng was even more because of the delay in the game, and after being warned by the referee many times, he showed a red card penalty, which also made Chen Meng completely collapse psychologically.
After Wang Manyu dragged the game into the decider, Chen Meng was widened by Wang Manyu in the decider, and in the end, Chen Meng lost the decider with a score of 8-11!
However, thanks to the misfortune, Chen Meng was really determined to change himself precisely because he lost the game in the women's singles final of the Asian Games! And "start with the fierce" as their motto!
Since then, Chen Meng has won the first place in the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, and was the first to lock in the singles qualification of the World Table Tennis Championships.
In the 2020 World Cup, Chen Meng defeated Sun Yingsha in the final, and finally completed the breakthrough in the world competition, the Tokyo Olympic Games, Chen Meng once again defeated Sun Yingsha in the final, becoming the 7th Chinese women's table tennis athlete to win the Olympic singles championship!
Now Chen Meng is once again the first to lock in the women's singles qualification for this year's Asian Games, at the same time, Wang Manyu will not be able to participate in the singles match of the Asian Games because he lost to Chen Meng in the final of the Singapore Grand Slam Championships, plus the world ranking after Sun Yingsha.
In this case, in the women's singles competition of the Asian Games, Chen Meng's biggest opponent is Sun Yingsha.
And when it comes to Sun Yingsha, now that she has lost consecutively to Chen Meng, it can be said that the championship that Chen Meng has won now is directly obtained by defeating Sun Yingsha in the final.
Compared with Wang Manyu, I believe that Chen Meng is also more willing to play against Sun Yingsha, after all, relatively speaking, it is easier to defeat Sun Yingsha!
After all, Sun Yingsha had not been in charge of coaching for a long time, and now although the problem of head coaching has been solved, the time for running in with Qiu Yike is relatively short after all, and Chen Meng has been under Ma Lin for more than three years.
From this point of view, Chen Meng undoubtedly has more advantages.
At this year's Asian Games, can Chen Meng beat Sun Yingsha in the final again to make up for his regrets four years ago?
Let's wait and see!