On May 28, the 2023 Durban World Table Tennis Championships women's singles final was cancelled, 22-year-old Chinese player Sun Yingsha defeated her teammate Chen Meng 4-2, winning the World Table Tennis Championships women's singles championship for the first time and becoming the 33rd World Table Tennis Championships women's singles champion in table tennis history. The scene was too burning when holding the cup, and Sun Yingsha smiled sweetly.
In 2017, the underage Sun Yingsha first appeared in people's eyes, in early July of that year, 16-year-old Sun Yingsha won four championships in the 23rd Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships. Then Sun Yingsha came to Japan, won the women's singles and women's doubles championships in the senior competition of the Open for the first time, and became famous in a match, and the "Little Devil" was born.
In 2019, after Sun Yingsha participated in the surface twelve people and directly through the Budapest World Table Tennis Championships and won the second place in women's table tennis, she won the qualification to participate in the Budapest World Table Tennis Championships women's singles and women's doubles competitions, which was her first time participating in the World Table Tennis Championships and the first time she attacked the world championship. Although she did not win the women's singles championship, she defeated the Japanese player Mimato Ito, who was in full swing at the time, breaking the biggest upset in the women's singles of the World Table Tennis Championships, and also clearing the way for Liu Shiwen to finally win the championship.
In the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, Sun Yingsha participated for the second time, she was both women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles, all of which reached the finals, including women's doubles and mixed doubles championships, and lost 2-4 to Wang Manyu in the women's singles final, passing by the champion.
In February this year, in the women's singles final of the National Table Tennis World Table Tennis Championships Trials (the first stop), Sun Yingsha defeated her teammate Chen Xingtong in straight sets, taking the lead in qualifying for the Durban World Table Tennis Championships singles. On April 3, the Chinese team held a press conference to announce the national table tennis lineup of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, and Sun Yingsha once again played singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. At that time, in an interview with the media, she said that this is the third World Championship she has participated in, and she has played the first one since she was 19 years old, and more than four years have passed, and she has grown a lot. This time I participated in the triathlon, and I had to do more physical reserves. She said, "We are unanimous, whether it is singles, mixed doubles or doubles, our goal is for the Chinese team to win the gold medal, and the goal is the same." ”
In this year's Durban World Table Tennis Championships, in addition to stopping at the women's doubles semifinals, Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin defeated the Japanese pair Zhang Benzhihe / Hina Hayata 3-0 to win the mixed doubles championship. In the women's singles arena, Sun Yingsha passed all the way to the semifinals, facing the final four Japanese "single seedling" Hina Hayada, Sun Yingsha won 4-1, which is also the second time in her career to reach the women's singles final after two years, following the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston.
The women's singles final was played between Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng, and in the end, Sun Yingsha defeated Chen Meng 4-2 and won the World Table Tennis Championships women's singles championship for the first time in her career, with 6 sets of 5-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-7, 7-11 and 11-6. This is the 26th time that the national table tennis women's singles has won the World Table Tennis Championships women's singles championship, and it is also the 15th consecutive championship since Deng Yaping won the championship in the 1995 World Table Tennis Championships. It can be said that Sun Yingsha has entered the best period of her career, and her strength and condition are enough to ensure that she will dominate the women's table tennis scene in the next few years.
Sun Yingsha said after the game that she and Sister Meng did their best in this game, no matter whether we won or lost, the two of us stood on the field today and were the winners. "I'm happy to win, but the main thing is to break through myself," she said. I hope to do my best every time I play and show myself better on the field. ”
Text/Beiqing Sports Zhou Xueshuai