At noon on October 22, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT championship ushered in a focus showdown, and the national table tennis Olympic champion Sun Yingsha appeared to face Chinese Taipei's world runner-up Zheng Yijing. Before that, the other two Olympic champions of the national table tennis women's team, Wang Manyu and Chen Meng, were out successively, and Zheng Yijing had defeated Sun Yingsha before, so the pressure on Sasha can be imagined.
However, now Zheng Yijing is difficult to mention the courage of the year, and in the end, she lost 0-3 and was out, and half of the singles final four was born: Sun Yingsha is about to face the super dark horse Yuan Jianan (consecutive wins against Wang Manyu and Ishikawa Jiachun), Fan Zhendong will compete with Lin Yunru!
Zheng Yijing is a very powerful athlete, and unlike most female table tennis masters, her forehand is stronger than her backhand, and the curved ball is powerful and sinking, which is an important guarantee for her scoring. However, due to the lack of women's strength, Zheng Yijing is prone to losses when encountering athletes with particularly strong backhand, so it is difficult to win the championship.
Before this, Sun Yingsha and Zheng Yijing had 2 meetings, 1 win and 1 loss, but Sun Yingsha lost in 2018, and now four years later, Zheng Yijing is already a 30-year-old veteran, and it is unrealistic to want to beat the world's No. 1 salsa again.
Sure enough, Sun Yingsha took the lead after the start of the game, winning the first game 11-4. A little similar to Zheng Yijing, Sun Yingsha also prefers to use a forehand, but her backhand is much stronger than Zheng Yijing. Four years ago, Sun Yingsha was still a 17-year-old young player, and her strength was still insufficient, so she suffered a bit of a loss in fighting with Zheng Yijing's forehand, and now she has the advantage of both the forehand and the backhand, and Zheng Yijing is not easy to handle.
In the second game, Zheng Yijing played more tenaciously, creating a certain threat to Sun Yingsha, but the game was still under Sun Yingsha's control overall, and she then went down 11-8 to take a 2-0 lead to force her opponent into a corner.
In the third game, Zheng Yijing fought back, but was still pressed by the other party, and finally Sun Yingsha hung the opponent 11-3, swept the seniors 3-0 to advance, and was only two steps away from winning the championship!
In another 1/4 final that ended earlier, the French-Chinese star Yuan Jianan, who eliminated Wang Manyu to advance, continued to upset, and pulled down Japanese world champion Yoshizumi Ishikawa 3-1, which is indeed a veritable super dark horse! Next, Yuan Jianan will compete with Sun Yingsha in the semifinals, so can Sasha withstand the pressure and defend the position in the top half of the women's singles for the national table tennis?
The answer is about to be revealed, let's sit back and wait for the final four battle to begin!