On March 4, Beijing time, the ITTF WTT India Star Challenge is underway. Ongoing is a battle for a place in the women's singles semifinals, with Japanese world champion Miu Hirano facing German-Chinese chipper Han Ying. Han Ying has just won the European women's singles championship, and she is 39 years old this year, and she still maintains a high level of competitive condition, which is very remarkable. In addition, Han Ying is also an Olympic runner-up.
In the first game, the two sides started 4:4, Miu Hirano was very prepared for difficulties today, and played very firmly, and the Japanese women's team has chippers Hitomi Sato and Hashimoto Fanoka as sparring partners, so Japanese players are generally very good at chipping. However, Han Ying has rich experience and plays very patiently, Han Ying has participated in the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, so the mentality is very good, and the two sides once drew 7:7. In the end, Miu Hirano won the first game 11:8 and led 1:0, and today Miu Hirano changed his landing point, facing Han Ying's counterattack, he was very well prepared.
In the second game, Miyu Hirano led 3:2, she ate Han Ying's spin very thoroughly, and Han Ying still had to actively seek opportunities to counterattack. Han Ying still didn't have a good way, playing very passively, and Miyu Hirano opened the score gap 9:4. 11:6 Miu Hirano won another set to lead 2:0. Today Miyu Hirano played smoothly, and there were few senseless mistakes.
In the third game, today can not say that Han Ying played very badly, can only say that Miyu Hirano ate Han Ying thoroughly, Han Ying did not have much scoring means, Miyu Hirano started 3:2 lead. Of course, Han Ying is also thinking of a way and has been adding rotations, but Miyu Hirano is in a very good mood, relaxed and jumping, and her bouncing has not been affected in the slightest. In the middle game, Miyu Hirano led again at 5:3, and Han Ying was a little unable to keep up with Miyu Hirano's pace and rhythm.
Miyu Hirano led 6-4 before Han Ying requested a timeout. After the pause, the arc given by Miyu Hirano was high, so that Han Ying did not have much to do. But the veteran Han Ying was very tenacious, and although the big score and the small score were behind, he did not give up and chased 6:7. Miu Hirano won the match point 10:8 and finally sealed the victory 11:9, winning 3:0 on aggregate and advancing to the women's singles semifinals first.
National Table Tennis Women's Singles, four people signed up for the competition, and Liu Weishan lost to Chinese player Yang Xiaoxin 2:3, and Quang Man lost to Wang Yidi 1:3, and the two were eliminated. The national table tennis women's singles also have Wang Yidi and Qian Tianyi. Today, Wang Yidi played against Yang Xiaoxin, and Qian Tianyi ushered in a tough battle against Japan's 14-year-old Zhang Benmeihe, who won all three times, and defeated Ishikawa Yoshichun and Chen Siyu in women's singles in a row.