On March 31, Beijing time, the ITTF Doha Star Challenge is underway. In the women's singles semifinals, German-Chinese chipper Han Ying took on Japan's Miyu Kato. In this open tournament, the 11 players of the national table tennis women's singles have all been eliminated. Han Ying has won the silver medal of the Olympic women's team, and Miyu Kato has participated in the World Table Tennis Championships and reached the quarterfinals of the women's singles of the World Table Tennis Championships, with certain strength.
In the first game, Han Ying started with a 4:2 lead. Han Ying, the cutter at the beginning, played very patiently, and Han Ying and Miyu Kato played many times in the Japanese league, winning and losing each other. Miyu Kato stabilized and chased the score to 4:5. Because the Japanese women's team has top chippers Hitomi Sato and Hashimoto Noka, the Japanese women's singles is generally very good at cutting players, which is not unfamiliar. Miyu Kato won the first set 12:10 to take a 1-0 lead.
In the second set, Miyu Kato continued to strengthen her attack, her offensive strength was very strong, Han Ying's ball rotation was very stable, but there were not many opportunities to counterattack. Miyu Kato led 5:4. In the key points, Miyu Kato won the set point 10:9, Han Ying made a mistake, and Miyu Kato won another set 11:9, leading 2:0.
In the third set, Han Ying led 2:1. The third set began with the two sides holding each other, Han Ying several counterattacks were resisted by Kato Miyu, in the end, Han Ying seized the opportunity, hard to get a point, 3:1 lead. In this round, Kato Miyu's state has declined, the chipper Han Ying has strong endurance and full of tenacity, Han Ying seized the opportunity, continuous counterattack, and pulled back a set at 11:4, falling behind 1:2.
In the fourth set, Han Ying started 4:1. Miyu Kato played a little impatiently, and Han Ying started with a 5-1 lead. Miyu Kato always wanted to score with one shot, but Han Ying slowly turned around with her opponent and seemed to be at ease, and Han Ying led 7:1. Han Ying served directly to score, leading 9:1. At 10:1, Han Ying got the set point. 11:2, Han Ying won another set, the big score was 2:2 draw.
In the fifth set, Han Ying started 4:2. Kato Miyu forced Han Ying to retreat from Taiwan, Kato Miyu continued to attack taiwan quickly, but Han Ying could still resist, Kato Miyu made a mistake, and Han Ying led 5:2. In the middle of the game, Han Ying opened the score gap 7:3. Han Ying won the set point 10:4, 11:5, Han Ying won another set, and the big score was 3:2. Veteran Han Ying played a remarkable game.
In the sixth set, Han Ying started 3:0, followed by Miyu Kato requesting a timeout. After the timeout, Miyu Kato made consecutive mistakes, and Han Ying started 5:0. Han Ying started 7:1. In the end, chipper Han Ying locked up the victory 11:4, and defeated Japan's Miyu Kato 4:2 on aggregate to successfully advance to the women's singles final. This year, Han Ying is 38 years old, and not long ago she won the Women's Singles Championship in the European Round of 16. After Miyu Kato lost, she had tears in her eyes and tears in her eyes.