WTT Zagreb: Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha both lost the championship, and Miyu Hirano defeated the world No. 1

After seven days of fierce competition, the 2023 Table Tennis WTT Croatian Championship has officially ended in the early morning of July 3, Beijing time, the champions and runners-up of the five major events have all been announced, the three teams of China, Japan and South Korea have divided the world, and the national table tennis has won 3 golds and 5 silvers to become the biggest winner, the specific results are as follows -

Men's singles: champion Lin Gaoyuan, runner-up Fan Zhendong;

Women's singles: champion Miu Hirano (JPN), runner-up Sun Yingsha;

Men's doubles: champion Lin Shidong/Yuan Licen, runner-up Liang Jingkun/Lin Gaoyuan;

Women's doubles: champion Tian Ji-hee/Shin Yu-bin (South Korea), runner-up Cheon Tianyi/Yoo Wei-shan;

Mixed doubles: champions Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, runner-up Lin Shidong/Qu Man.

I have to say that competitive sports are really impermanent, Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha, who just won the singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships this year, actually did not have the opportunity to reach the top, and sure enough, there has never been a winning general on the field!

Compared with the previous two WTT Nigeria and Tunisia tournaments, the lineup of WTT Croatia National Table Tennis has been significantly strengthened, and many main players have signed up to participate, and the results have also improved significantly, among which mixed doubles, men's singles, and men's doubles have successfully met the finals, and the men's singles has won the final four in one go, which is really imposing.

The more dangerous are women's singles and women's doubles, the former only one main player Sun Yingsha participated, as a result, most of the non-main players lost the foreign battle, without Sasha may not even be able to reach the final; The latter event was completely devoid of a main player, and there were only two pairs of participants, and after the civil war, Qian Tianyi/Liu Weishan almost lost to the Thai in the semifinals and stumbled into the final round.

In the end, the two world champions of China and Japan, Sun Yingsha and Miyu Hirano, met in the women's singles final and launched a peak showdown, and as a result, Miyu Hirano, who defeated Liu Weishan and Quang Man in the first two rounds, once again became powerful, narrowly defeating Sun Yingsha 4-3 in the case of constantly falling behind, replicating the record of winning the championship in the 2017 Asian Championships with one to three and breaking three lines of defense in a row, which can be regarded as the return of the king.

As for the final of the women's doubles, Qian Tianyi/Liu Weishan attacked South Korea's world runner-up Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin, the latter two swept Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu 3-0 at the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, and a few days ago won the national table tennis players to win the WTT Nigeria women's doubles championship, this time although once won by the other party, but in the end it was a 3-2 victory, defeating the Chinese team again, it is indeed powerful.

Because mixed doubles is an Olympic event, and we lost the gold medal last time, so the coaching staff did not dare to relax for a moment, and as a result, the four pairs of participants maintained a full victory in the foreign battle, Liang Jingkun/Qian Tianyi, Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Yidi lost the civil war, the World Table Tennis Championships champion Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, the third runner-up Lin Shidong/Qu Man will meet in the final, the first two won the championship 3-1.

Men's singles as said before, although half of the national table tennis athletes also lost foreign battles, but it is undeniable that this time Japan, South Korea and Europe and other strongest foreign association masters did not come, Brazil's Hugo lost again, so our difficulty in winning the championship is not very large, and finally won a big victory to win the final four, the final was highly optimistic Fan Zhendong accidentally collapsed, and finally Lin Gaoyuan narrowly won 4-3 to become the king.

Men's doubles because Japan did not register, South Korea is debugging new pairings, European masters are playing the European Games, so the pressure of national table tennis is not very great, only Xue Fei / Liang Yancang 1-3 lost to Hong Kong, China Guan Wenhao / Li Hanming, Liang Jingkun / Lin Gaoyuan, Lin Shidong / Yuan Licen will meet the final, the first two world champions lost 1-3, the last two young players reached the top as king, Lin Gaoyuan may be a little tired affected the performance.

According to the arrangement, July 3 will usher in the battle of WTT Slovenia, the other nine main players of the national table tennis except Chen Xingtong are all dispatched, Miyu Hirano, Tian Zhixi, Shen Yubin will still appear, Tomokazu Zhang Moto, Misei Ito and others will also appear, the competition is bound to be more intense, let's cheer for the Chinese team together!