On December 5, 2023, the Table Tennis Mixed Team World Cup continued, and the national table tennis won Sweden, Hong Kong, China, and Puerto Rico in a row, ranking first in Group A and advancing to the next stage.
The establishment of the mixed team event is a new attempt by the ITTF, integrating the five events together, allowing male and female athletes to participate, and the associations compete to test the comprehensive strength of each team.
Interestingly, the rules of the event have been adjusted several times, the Japanese team and the Chinese Taipei team originally did not plan to sign up, but later learned that the new points were added, and they temporarily changed their willingness to apply for it, which was officially approved, resulting in an increase in the number of people in the latter two groups, and it was necessary to play four rounds of round-robin, but the individual points were actually not much, so Lin Yunru and other famous players were absent, and the highlights will be relatively less.
In the group stage that ended before, the national table tennis won 8-0, winning Sweden and Hong Kong, China, Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Manyu defeated Karlsson/Christina 3-0 in the first round, Sun Yingsha defeated Linda 3-0, Wang Chuqin beat Carlberg 2-0, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha defeated He Junjie/Du Kaiqin 3-0 in the second round, Chen Meng swept Zhu Chengzhu 3-0, Fan Zhendong defeated Huang Zhenting 2-0, and now faces Puerto Rico.
The game adopts a 15-game 8-win system, the first win is 8 games to win, the first set of mixed doubles, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha swept Afanador / F. Diaz 3-0 (11-1, 11-4, 11-2), the strength gap is large, the opponent is difficult to score 5 points, it should be noted that the three female players in Puerto Rico are all called Diaz, and the off-court coach is still their father, but only Adriana Diaz is a first-class player.
In the second set of women's singles, Wang Manyu lost 1-2 to A. Diaz (12-10, 10-12, 8-11), the intensity was very high, Diaz swept Du Kaiqin 3-0 earlier, which is still fresh in people's memory, and the main force has been back and forth in the past, but Wang Manyu's upset loss is still a little unexpected, in the third set of men's singles, Ma Long defeated Naranho (11-6, 11-2, 11-4) 3-0, and the national table tennis Olympic champion lived up to expectations.
The next project to choose is the women's doubles, in the fourth set Sun Yingsha/Wang Yidi defeated A. Diaz / M. Diaz (11-3) 1-0, and finally the national table tennis defeated Puerto Rico 8-2, and the group won three consecutive games to advance to the second stage, only Wang Manyu lost two games, and the process is still worth summarizing.