Beijing time on August 2 news, the 2022 World Table Tennis Professional League WTT regular season challenge Tunisia station ended the first day of competition. National table tennis world champion Yu Ziyang defeated German Chinese player Meng Fanbo 3-2 after falling behind twice in the innings, and Sun Wen kept a 3-0 clean sheet against Shipul. In terms of doubles, Shi Xunyao/He Zhuojia and other 4 pairs of national table tennis pairs successfully advanced.
The 24-year-old Yu Ziyang became famous relatively early, and at the 2014 World Youth Championships, he defeated Japan's Yudou Muramatsu to win the championship. In the same year, Yu Ziyang defeated Mizutani Hayabusa in the final of the Japan Open, won the championship, and became the youngest men's singles champion on the tour in the history of the ITTF at that time, at the age of 16 years and 30 days, which was later broken by Zhang Benzhihe.
At the 2017 Tianjin National Games, Yu Ziyang cooperated with Wang Manyu and won the mixed doubles gold medal. In the 2018 World Cup team competition, Yu Ziyang, together with Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin and Lin Gaoyuan, helped the Chinese team win the championship, and he also won the world championship. However, Yu Ziyang's appearance rate is extremely low, and he is ridiculed by netizens as the world champion of "lying to win". After this, Yu Ziyang's foreign war results were not satisfactory, and his career development encountered bottlenecks.
Currently, Yu Ziyang is ranked 188th in the world, and he faces 21-year-old German player Meng Fanbo in the first round of the men's singles qualifier, who is now ranked 90th in the world. Meng Fanbo's more classic match is the 2020 Spanish Challenge, and his consecutive victories over Japan's Sho Tonone and Hato Tsukashi Havehito impressed the fans.
In the first set, Yu Ziyang played more passively, and there were successive errors in the key points at the end of the game, losing a set 9-11 first. In the second set, Yu Ziyang adjusted in time, and the high-quality serve drove the attack, causing Meng Fanbo to make consecutive mistakes, and the Chinese players pulled back Yicheng 11-6.
In the third set, Yu Ziyang's state fluctuated, failing to withstand the opponent's attack and losing 8-11. In the fourth set, Yu Ziyang regained his strength and won 11-6. In the decider, Yu Ziyang continued to work hard, locking in the victory 11-3, and finally defeating Meng Fanbo 3-2.
Sun Wen faced Germany's Tobias Sieple in the first round of qualifying. Sun Wen, 25, is now ranked 98th in the world, and in the 2018-2019 Table Tennis Super League, he defeated Fan Zhendong twice; At the Japan Open in June 2019, Sun Wen swept Zhang Benzhihe 4-0. At the Shaanxi National Games last year, Sun Wen and Qian Tianyi cooperated to win the mixed doubles bronze medal.
In this game, Sun Wen played more focused, and won the first game 11-4. In the subsequent game, although Shipul strengthened the fight, he was still at a disadvantage in terms of key points and mentality, sun Wen overcame the short fluctuations, won 11-8, 11-7, and finally defeated Shipul 3-0, successfully passing the pass.
In the first round of the women's doubles qualifier, Shi Xunyao / He Zhuojia kept a clean sheet with the Tunisian combination of Zorgram / Garsi 11-7, 11-6, 11-4; Fan Siqi/ Liu Weishan narrowly defeated the Polish duo of Bayo/ Baidica 3-2, with a score of 11-9, 11-4, 8-11, 6-11, 12-10.
In the first round of the men's doubles qualifiers, Xue Fei / Zhao Zihao defeated the German duo of Menger / Meissner 3-1, with a score of 11-9, 11-5, 5-11, 11-7; Yuan Lichen / Liu Dingshuo defeated the Swiss duo of Stoll / Rebets 3-0, with a score of 11-5, 11-6 and 11-4.