1-2! The national table tennis lost in an upset, 4 seeded teams qualified, and the top 8 in the mixed team World Cup were born
In the 2023 Table Tennis Mixed Team World Cup, the national table tennis lost in the last 1 game against Puerto Rico in the first stage, Wang Manyu lost to Diaz 1-2, but with Ma Long, Sun Yingsha/Wang Yidi's 4 points in a row, the national table tennis finally won the team competition with a total score of 8-2, and qualified for the second stage of the top eight as the group leader. In the other three groups, Germany, Japan, and South Korea ranked first, and all four seeded teams qualified. Together with Sweden, Slovakia, France, and Chinese Taipei, who qualified second in the group, the top 8 in this mixed team World Cup were born. The next second stage will still adopt the round-robin format, the national table tennis will play against Slovakia, Chinese Taipei, France, South Korea, Japan, Germany 6 teams that have not played each other, and the first place in the two stages of the round-robin will win the championship.
In the first stage, the national table tennis was in the same group as Sweden, Puerto Rico, and Hong Kong, China, and in the first two rounds of the competition, the national table tennis did not taste defeat. In the first match against Sweden, Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Manyu 3-0 Carlsen/Carlberg, Sun Yingsha 3-0 Linda Bergstrom, Wang Chuqin 2-0 Anton Carlberg. In the second scene, Hong Kong, China, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha 3-0 Du Kaiqin/He Junjie, Chen Meng 3-0 Zhu Chengzhu, Fan Zhendong 2-0 Huang Zhenting. In the first two rounds, the national table tennis that did not lose a game of 16-0 total score lost a women's singles game in the third round, facing Puerto Rico, although Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha 3-0 clean sheet Afanador / F-Diaz, but then Wang Manyu lost 1-2 to Diaz, the national table tennis not only lost the first game of this tournament, but also lost the first single game of this tournament, but with Ma Long's total score 3-0 victory over Naranyo, Sun Yingsha / Wang Yidi won the first game with the Diaz sisters 11-3, and the national table tennis finally defeated Puerto Rico with a total score of 8-2 to win the entire team competition, winning the first place in the group for 3 consecutive victories.
The European powerhouse Sweden team, which is in the same group as the Chinese team, won the second place in the group with the performance of the Hong Kong team in China with a clean 8-0 record, and qualified after the national table tennis. In the other three groups, the three main opponents of national table tennis, Germany, Japan, and South Korea, also advanced as the first team in the group, and the three teams that won the second place in the group were France, Slovakia and Chinese Taipei. In the second stage, the national table tennis faces stronger opponents, and if you want to complete the goal of winning the championship at the home stadium in Chengdu, you need to win in the strong dialogue, and at the same time, you must avoid an upset like Wang Manyu losing to Diaz. In the first Table Tennis Mixed Team World Cup, the new competition system is fair for any team, and the stability of a team is tested without a single-elimination system.