On October 21, Beijing time, the WTT Macau Championship will come to the third match day, and the top 8 men's and women's singles will be decided today.
Yesterday's 1/16 final was frequently upset, Sweden's Carlsson and Nigeria's Aruna were both swept 0-3 by American teenager Kanek and Sweden's Carlberg. In addition, the women's No. 3 seed and national table tennis player Wang Manyu was not in good shape, and finally lost to the French player 2-3; The men's No. 4 seed, Japanese table tennis player Zhang Benzhi and 1-3 defeated Sweden's Falke again "one round".
The other two players of national table tennis, Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha, who are also the top seeds of the event, both eliminated Huang Zhenting and Bruna Gao Qiao 3-0 respectively to advance. In the end, a total of 8 people advanced to the round of 16, namely men Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, and women Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, and Chen Xingtong.
Today's schedule has begun, the first is the Japanese table tennis "civil war", and finally Ito Misei eliminated Kihara Miyu 3-1 to advance to the women's singles quarterfinals. The second national table tennis player Liang Jingkun appeared, he faced Swedish rising star Alex Lebrun, and Alex eliminated Zhang Yuzhen, the "first brother" of Korean table tennis 3-1 in the 1/16 final, and his strength was good.
Alex started the game with Alex taking the lead and heading down 11-9. After adjusting in the first game, Liang Jingkun soon took the initiative in the second game and pulled back a game at 11:4. In the third game, the two sides fought fiercely, and in the end, Liang Jingkun won 11:9 and led 2-1.
In the fourth game, Liang Jingkun started a little off the line, and Alex seized the opportunity to extend the gap to 9:3, expecting the game to go to the tiebreaker soon, but it did not happen. Liang Jingkun ushered in a wave of small climax, chasing 3 points in a row to force the opponent to call a timeout. After returning from the timeout, Liang Jingkun continued to chase points, tied 9:9 and then won the match point at 10:9, but Alex, who lost points in a row, did not collapse, and saved the game at 12:10 after stabilizing the position.
In the tiebreaker, Alex once again opened the lead, and Liang Jingkun followed closely behind, finally equalizing the score at 9:9 and taking another match point at 10:9. However, like the previous game, Liang Jingkun still failed to reverse the score, and finally lost the final set 10:12, and Alex advanced to the men's singles quarterfinals 3-2.
I have to say that this French young player is really good and can be regarded as a "big dark horse" in this competition. In the next round, he will face the winner between Lin Yunru and Pucar, I wonder if he can go to the end?
October 21 Schedule (Singles 1/8 Final)
10:00 ITO Miyu 3-1 KIHARA Miyu
10:35 Liang Jingkun 2-3 Alex
11:10 Mesheriv vs Yoshizumi Ishikawa
11:45 Carlberg vs Falke
12:20 Matrova vs Zheng Yijing
12:55 Moregaard vs Wang Yang
13:30 Shan Xiaona vs Wang Yidi
14:05 Pukar vs Lin Yunru
14:40 Yuan Jianan vs Chen Siyu
15:15 Francesca vs Darko
18:30 Tian Zhixi vs Chen Xingtong
19:05 Wang Chuqin vs Ochalov
19:40 Sun Yingsha vs Yang Xiaoxin
20:15 Fan Zhendong vs Kanak
20:50 Szokos vs Chen Meng
21:25 Qiu Dang vs Malone