On October 30, Beijing time, the final of the 2022 Table Tennis WTT Xinxiang World Cup will be born. In the semi-final competition the previous day, four world champions Ma Long, Ocharov, Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi were eliminated and failed to advance to compete for the gold medal.
The next men's singles final will be a battle between China and Japan, with 22-year-old Wang Chuqin facing 19-year-old Zhang Benzhihe, who has only defeated him not long ago, and the Chinese team faces a severe test! The women's singles is the national table tennis civil war, and the champions and runners-up winners of the Tokyo Olympics - Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha will meet again, a competition, wonderful worthy of attention.
A total of 9 national table tennis players participated in the WTT World Cup final, of which half of the 4 men's singles lost in foreign battles, respectively, Lin Gaoyuan lost to Boer 2-3, Fan Zhendong lost to Ochalov 2-3, and the first half was completely lost, and the Chinese team can only hope for Ma Long and Wang Chuqin in the second half to compete for the championship.
After two rounds of competition, 34-year-old Ma Long and 22-year-old Wang Chuqin successfully met in the semifinals, and then ushered in a thrilling battle, Wang Chuqin led 3-0, victory was in sight, and the senior brother fought back frantically, but Ma Long failed to make a shocking reversal after winning 3 consecutive games, and finally lost 3-4: Recently, he has repeatedly lost Wang Chuqin, losing the tiebreaker game many times, which is really afraid of being strong!
As for the semifinals of the first half of the men's singles, there was a "one-sided" situation, with 19-year-old Japanese teenager Tomokazu Zhang coming as a rainbow, after two 3-0 sweeps over Germany's Francesca and Boer (world champion), and then won another German world champion Ochalov 4-0.
Prior to this, Zhang Benzhihe had reversed Lin Gaoyuan to win the championship at the WTT Championship in July, and then broke the two lines of defense of the Chinese team Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong at the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships in October, and now will compete with Wang Chuqin for the men's singles gold medal in the WTT World Cup finals, his technical and tactical system has obviously changed radically, Wang Chuqin should be careful!
Women's side, the semifinals are a veritable fairy fight, the peak duel between the main forces of the four world champions of national table tennis, as a result, Sun Yingsha eliminated Wang Yidi 4-1, and Chen Meng also won Wang Manyu 4-1, and also reversed Chen Xingtong 3-1 in the last round, winning two world championship teammates in a row.
It is worth mentioning that recently Sun Yingsha lost consecutive games against Wang Yidi, and Chen Meng also lost many battles against Chen Xingtong and Wang Manyu, but I didn't expect that this time they all completed the counterattack. Similarly, Sun Yingsha has not won Chen Meng in recent years, and has lost the Olympic Games, the World Cup, and the National Championships, so can she change this situation in the final? The suspense remains!
According to the arrangement, the women's singles final will be held at 19:00 on October 30, and the men's singles final will be held at 20:00, but considering that Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha are close in strength, it is not ruled out that they will play a full 7 rounds, then an hour may not be enough, and the second match may be delayed, all subject to the actual start time.
After the WTT World Cup finals, the main task of the national table tennis in the world-class competition in 2022 will also come to an end, and the next external battle arrangements are temporarily only the Asian Cup in November and the World Youth Championship in December, so let's cheer for Wang Chuqin together, look forward to his success in resisting Japan tonight and win Zhang Benzhihe, and also look forward to Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha's team battle can be equally exciting: Come on, everyone!