In the early morning of July 9, Beijing time, the WTT Star Challenge Ljubljana continued.
The matchday will feature a singles semi-final, with the first women's singles semifinal: Chen Meng against Mimato Ito.
Mimato Ito is the main opponent of the national table tennis women's team in recent years, in the years of Ito's rise, almost all the main players of the national table tennis have been won, but failed to break through Chen Meng's defense, Chen Meng can be called Ito's "nemesis"
In the past 5 meetings in the international arena, Chen Meng has won all of them. The most recent meeting was at the Durban World Table Tennis Championships at the end of May, when Chen Meng won 4-0.
In this game, Chen Meng's tactics were clear, and the serve and attack made Misei Ito difficult to parry; On the other hand, it also suppressed the opponent's fighting, always controlled the situation on the court, and finally fell three straight sets and won easily.
In the first game, Chen Meng's serve was dominated by long balls, and he took the initiative to form an upspin ball to hold and take a 4-1 lead.
Mimato Ito also kept changing his serves, and even served long balls to fight, once chasing the score to 3-4.
But Chen Meng still firmly tacked and quickly won the first set 11-4.
Chen Meng has a balanced forehand and backhand, strong defensive ability, and actively holds the long ball, and Misei Ito can block it when he fights Chen Meng.
In the second game, Chen Meng started 4-0 perfectly. Chen Meng's serve scoring rate is as high as 88%.
Chen Meng rarely made a mistake on the serve, but still maintained a 2-point lead, 4-2.
After that, both sides fell into a serving dilemma, who served and lost points, until 7-6, Chen Meng secretly sent a long ball, directly scored, 8-6.
At 9-7, Chen Mengfa had a short forehand, and then tore a quick backhand to score, and Chen Meng won the set point 10-7.
Chen Meng served another long ball, Ito Mimai made a mistake on the serve, and finally Chen Meng won another game 11-7, leading 2:0.
Although Chen Meng made some mistakes in this serving round, it actually gave Mimato Ito a chance, but Mimato Ito couldn't grasp it, and her serving tactics couldn't play at all.
In the third game, Ito Mimai did not dare to fight with Chen Meng for speed, but chose to fight short balls, disrupting the rhythm of the game and taking a 5-2 lead.
Chen Meng strengthened the rotation, held the backhand and took the initiative to change the line, quickly equalizing the score, 5-5.
At 7-7, Chen Meng served the ball and backhanded the edge, 8-7. Ito had to ask for a suspension.
Mimato Ito finally tied the score, the serve was not tight at the key moment, and Chen Meng received the serve and directly pulled the score back.
Misei Ito made a mistake on serve and gave Chen Meng's match point, 10-8.
However, Chen Meng also failed to grasp the key serve round, and the strategy of serving long ball and grabbing was guessed by Mimato Ito, 10-10.
When Chen Meng won the match point again at 11-10, Chen Meng asked for a timeout.
Chen Meng served to Ito Mimai backhand small triangle, Ito Mimai returned the ball to the net, obviously Ito Mimai did not expect this ball to be a short ball, and when her second reaction stepped forward to receive the serve, her footsteps were already out of place.
In the end, Chen Meng won the last game 12-10, thus winning 3-0 and advancing to the women's singles final first.
Chen Meng further established Ito's status as a "nemesis", extending Ito's winning streak to six in a row.
Because the semifinals of the first half of the region are the semifinals of the meeting of Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu of National Table Pingping, National Table Tennis has won the women's singles championship and runner-up in advance.