WTT Slovenia: Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha swept South Korea's rivals 3-0 to advance to the semifinals
On the afternoon of July 6, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Slovenia Star Tournament ushered in the second main day of the competition, two-time World Table Tennis Championships champion Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha appeared, and the mixed doubles pair composed of two South Korean world runners-up Lin Zhongxun / Shin Yubin competed, the result was a big victory in the national table tennis combination, swept the opponent 3-0 easily, and advanced to the semifinal stage first: congratulations to the two!
As the two athletes currently ranked No. 1 in the singles world, the strength of Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha is undoubted, and the cooperation is becoming more and more tacit, which is very promising to impact the qualification for next year's Paris Olympic Games, which is worth everyone's attention!
Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, Lin Zhongxun/Shin Yubin are the first mixed doubles combination promoted by the Chinese and South Korean teams, the former two have won the gold medal of the World Table Tennis Championships twice in 2021 and 2023, and the performance of the latter two in the international arena is also remarkable.
However, no matter from the results, ranking and other aspects, Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha must have the upper hand, and Lin Zhongxun and Shen Yubin are currently more successful in the field of men's doubles and women's doubles, the former and Zhang Yuzhen have won two World Table Tennis Championships runners-up and are currently ranked first in the world, and the latter and Tian Zhixi swept Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu 3-0 at this year's World Table Tennis Championships to win silver, but the mixed doubles performance is average.
After the start of the match, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha took the lead and quickly took the lead in the first game. The threat on the Korean side is Lim Jong-hoon, his backhand twisting is very sudden, the left-hand line, the landing point is flexible, Shin Yubin is relatively weak, can not withstand the return of Wang Chuqin or Sun Yingsha, and then lost a city 8-11.
In the second game, the Korean combination scored 2 consecutive points at the beginning, but was quickly overtaken by Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, and then was passively beaten, and finally lost 7-11 and was forced into a corner, and there was no way back.
In the third game, Lim Jong-hoon/Shin Yu-bin fought fiercely, but was quickly reversed in the lead, and finally lost the entire match 5-11, stopping the quarterfinals and missing the semifinals: indeed not an opponent, this result is normal.
From the perspective of strength comparison, the biggest threat to the current national table tennis mixed doubles is still Japan's Tomokazu Chang / Hina Hayada, but they did not team up this time, so we are very hopeful to win the championship and runner-up of this event again after the last WTT Croatia tournament, so let's wait and see: Come on, everyone!