On the afternoon of March 17, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Singapore Grand Slam ushered in the tenth match day of the competition, the national table tennis non-main player Qian Tianyi appeared, facing Austria's famous and European Championship women's singles champion Polkanova, as a result, Qian Tianyi made another contribution, behind 0-1 in four consecutive sets of big reversals, the 1.8 meter height Polkanova played helplessly, the first to advance to the women's singles semifinals.
Qian Tianyi's performance in this competition can be called brave, winning four strong enemies in a row, Chen Siyu, Misei Ito, Yuan Jianan, Polkanova, and helping Guoping defend the 4/4 community when Chen Meng is out of the game, it's really good, praise for her!
Qian Tianyi is the first post-00s player of the national table tennis women's team, and once pressed Sun Yingsha and others, but as she grew older, due to the power confrontation can not keep up, coupled with injuries, so the results have declined, but this Grand Slam she is in very good shape, sweeping Chen Siyu 3-0, twice eliminating strong opponents Misei Ito and Yuan Jianan 3-2, so everyone is also optimistic that she can enter another round to reach the final four.
Polkanova who confronts Qian Tianyi is a rare "giant" of women's table tennis, her technical style is naturally different from others at a height of 1.8 meters, the defensive area is large, and the strength is not small, but the speed is relatively slow, Qian Tianyi must stand as close as possible to the platform to promote the strengths and avoid the weaknesses.
After the start of the match, Polkanova tried to get started quickly and form a longer arc of holding, which was beneficial to her, while Qian Tianyi focused on the rubbing control in the stage, making it difficult for the big Polkanova to flexibly use her hands and feet, while playing her forehand advantage, for a while the two were deadlocked, the score continued to draw, but Polkanova still won 11-8.
Judging from the situation in the first game, Qian Tianyi's power disadvantage is relatively large, and she can't withstand the opponent's arc ball, so in the second game, she either doesn't get started, and if she gets started, she will add quality to the first board to avoid being dragged to a regular stalemate, and the effect is good, and she wins back Yicheng 11-7.
In the third game, Qian Tianyi insisted on playing fast and slow, played his speed advantage, and won 11-8. In the fourth game, Qian Tian scored five points in a row and forced the opponent to call a timeout to adjust, but then lost 5-11. Since the singles quarterfinals began with a best-of-seven format, Polkanova had her last hope of a turnaround.
In the fifth game, Polkanova fought back, but the momentum was difficult to recover, and finally lost the entire match 6-11, and Qian Tianyi was the first to get a ticket to the women's singles semifinals: well, congratulations to her!