On March 13, Beijing time, the third matchday of the main event of the 2023 WTT Grand Slam Singapore Championship ended.
The matchday played the first round of men's and women's doubles, the mixed doubles 1/8 final, the men's singles top half 1/16 final, and the women's singles bottom half 1/16 final.
Eight players in the top half of the men's singles round of 16, eight players in the bottom half of the women's singles round of 16, and the top 16 of men's and women's doubles, and the eight finals of mixed doubles were all produced.
Today's competition, cold is not constant, the performance of national table tennis players is also up and down.
Yesterday, it was speculated that Qian Tianyi and Lin Gaoyuan's match today would be "dangerous", and sure enough, both of them fought hard until the fifth game. Luckily, both men eventually triumphed over their respective opponents and progressed to the round of 16.
But what I didn't expect was that Wang Yidi took the lead today and "opened the door black"; Immediately after that, Fan Siqi and Chen Meng lost one after another, and the national table tennis women's singles lost three times in a row, which perfectly fits the tone of "unpopular" on the match day: only unexpected, not impossible.
National Table Tennis won 9 wins and 3 losses in 12 matches on the match day, of which 5 games played five games, which was quite thrilling.
The results of the 12 matches on the 13th of National Table Tennis are as follows:
Wang Yidi 2-3 Miyu Hirano
Fan Siqi 1-3 Yuan Jianan
Chen Meng 2-3 Samara
Liang Jingkun 3-0 Feng Yixin
Wang Chuqin 3-0 Wang Zhen
Wang Manyu/Fan Zhendong 3-2 Ionescu/Szox
Chen Xingtong 3-0 Tian Zhixi
Qian Tianyi 3-2 Mimato Ito
Lin Gaoyuan 3-2 Zhang Yuzhen
Zhang Rui 3-1 Porta
Fan Zhendong 3-0 Apollonia
Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha 3-0 Pisteye/Balazova
On that match day, the biggest upset in the men's singles was against the host Singapore's Guo Yong, who won three consecutive sets after falling behind 0-2 to finally defeat Sweden's Falk 3-2 to advance to the men's singles round of 16.
Falk is the runner-up of the men's singles of the 19-year World Table Tennis Championships and the men's doubles champion of the 21-year World Table Tennis Championships. This time, facing the young player who played at home, he failed to win the game with a bang, which was a bit of a miscalculation.
Guo Yong, a wild card player ranked 242nd in the world, defeated former "Indian brother" Achanta in the first round. Guo Yong is only 16 years old now, with excellent backhand twisting and pulling skills, multi-shot phase holding upside, and unlimited potential in the future.
Most of the main competitors of National Table Tennis also successfully advanced, including Lin Zhongxun and Hayasuke Togami in the men's singles, Han Ying and Miyu Hirano in the women's singles.
Men's singles round of 16 in the first half of the match
Fan Zhendong VS Lin Zhongxun
Hayasuke Togami vs Moregaard
Wang Chuqin VS Guo Yong
Lin Gaoyuan VS Liang Jingkun
Women's singles round of 16 in the second half of the match
Chen Xingtong VS Han Ying
Zhang Rui VS Miyu Hirano
Qian Tianyi VS Yuan Jianan
Polkanova vs Samara
Men's doubles round of 16 against the situation
Yukiya Uda/Hayasuke Togami vs Felix Lebrun/Alex Lebrun
Huang Zhenting/He Junjie VS Qiu Dang/Duda
Wang Chuqin/Fan Zhendong VS Guo Yong/Feng Yaoen
Sudi/Exage VS Lee Sang-so/Kalberg, match time: 3.14 19:05
Liao Zhenjun/Chen Jianan VS Alto/Sifuentes, match time: 3.14 13:05
Jocchick/Moregaard VS Zhang Yuzhen/Lin Zhongxun, match time: 3.14 14:15
Pitcheford/Jinkhall vs Nuitik/Dias, match time: 3.14 19:40
Lin Yunru/Zhuang Zhiyuan VS Falk/Carlson
Women's doubles round of 16 against the situation
Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu VS Chen Siyu/Li Haoqing
Lutz/Parvad VS Du Kaixuan/Zhu Chengzhu
Szocks/Polkanova vs Balazova/Matrova, match time: 3.14 18:30
Shan Xiaona/Miyu Nagasaki VS Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin, match time: 3.14 20:15
Batra/KAMAZ VS Chen Meng/Wang Yidi, match time: 3.14 12:30
Zhang An/Amy Wang VS Ni Xialian/Nutt, match time: 3.14 13:40
Kalberg/Bergstrom VS Porta/Madaratz
Zheng Yijing/Li Yuzhen VS Hina Hayada/Mimato Ito
Mixed doubles quarterfinals against the situation
Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha VS Shin Yubin/Lin Zhongxun, match time: 3.14 12:30
Du Kaixuan/Huang Zhenting VS Lin Yunru/Chen Siyu, match time: 3.14 18:30
Batra/Nanasekaran VS Tomokazu Changmoto/Hina Hayada, match time: 3.14 15:20
Wang Manyu/Fan Zhendong VS Kalberg/Moregaard, match time: 3.14 21:20
On March 14, the men's singles bottom half 1/16 final, the women's singles top half 1/16 final, mixed doubles 1/4 final, and men's and women's doubles 1/8 finals will be played.
National Table Tennis will have one men's singles 1/16 final, two women's singles 1/16 finals, one women's doubles 1/8 final, and two mixed doubles 1/4 finals, a total of 6 matches.
National table tennis player schedule on the 14th
12:30 Chen Meng/Wang Yidi VS Batra/KAMAZ (India)
12:30 Wang Chu-chin/Son Ying-sa VS Shin Yu-bin/Lim Joong-hoon (South Korea)
14:10 Manyu Wang VS Miyu Kihara (Japan)
14:45 Lin Shidong VS Ma Long
19:35 Sun Yingsha VS Winter (Germany)
21:20 Wang Manyu/Fan Zhendong VS Kalberg/Moregaard (Sweden)
Among them, the men's singles competition is the "civil war" of national table tennis, and the oldest big brother of national table tennis is the 34-year-old men's team captain Ma Long, against the 17-year-old new-generation young player Lin Shidong, and the age difference between the two is 4 Olympic cycles. The two met in a Grand Slam tournament and will definitely go down in history. Is it that the veteran sword is not old, or is the young calf not afraid of the tiger? It is worth paying attention to.
Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, each guarding a women's singles district, are about to usher in the second round of challenges.
Relatively speaking, Sun Yingsha is less challenging.
and Wang Manyu's opponent Miyu Kihara, although only 18 years old, has reached 17th in the world ranking; In Japan, the Olympic points surpassed Yoshijun Ishikawa and Mimato Ito, temporarily ranking third, and the progress is very fast. Moreover, her coach is a Chinese who has gone out and is familiar with national pingping. For Wang Manyu, it is a small challenge, don't underestimate the enemy.
Chen Meng and Wang Yidi hope that they will not be affected by the loss of the women's singles and play the remaining women's doubles match. Seon lost his horse, and he knew that it was not a blessing. If the women's singles loses, it will be good if the women's doubles wins!
The mixed doubles of Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha will usher in a tough battle, and the Korean mixed doubles pair of Shin Yubin/Lim Joong-hoon is one of their key cultivation combinations.
Of course, the competition of the 14th foreign association is also very interesting.
Male single
The duel between Hugo and Yukiya Uda, both of whom like to retreat and pull back, open and close, absolutely wonderful, match time: 20:10.
"African brother" Aruna and "French brother" Alex Lebrun will collide fiercely. Match time: 14:50.
Alex Lebrun's younger brother, Felix Lebrun, will challenge Lin Yunru, the "first brother of Chinese Taipei", at 13:35.
Tomokazu Chang will also face France's Acuzu at 14:50.
At the same time, players such as Qiu Dang and Zhuang Zhiyuan also appeared in turn.
Women's singles
Hina Hayata will meet Sutasini's challenge at 13:00.
Ishikawa Yoshijun, Du Kaixuan, Zheng Yijing and other top-ranked players will all compete in the second round of women's singles.
Who do you like to advance?