On December 9, 2023, the table tennis mixed team World Cup ended with the focus battle, the national table tennis defeated Japan 8-5 and competed for the championship with South Korea.
Eight members of the national table tennis signed up for this event, impacting the mixed team world championship, just before the end of the game, the national table tennis won seven consecutive victories, many players played at a high level, especially against the overall strength of the French team, only Fan Zhendong lost a game, the coaching staff hopes to take this opportunity to continue to exercise the ability to resist pressure in the competition, like Wang Manyu is focused on singles, Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha is mainly for mixed doubles.
In the fifth round of the round-robin tournament, the national table tennis team faced the Japanese team and became the focus of attention of outside fans, earlier 5 wins accumulated 10 points, the Japanese team was 4-1-9 points, the last round lost 4-8 to the South Korean team, the overall performance of the national table tennis players is remarkable, there are still two difficulties to pass from winning the championship, the Japanese team Zhang Ben Tomokazu and Hayada Hina, plus Zhang Ben Miwa and others, it is indeed difficult to deal with.
It is worth mentioning that compared with the previous lineup, the changes between the two sides are not obvious, the national table tennis sent Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Fan Zhendong, the Japanese team arranged Hayasuke Togami/Miwa Zhangmoto, Hina Hayata, Tomokazu Zhangmoto, and the coaching staff reused Wang Manyu to exercise her foreign combat ability through the event, so the singles played the most, and the mixed doubles Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha was the most stable, so it became the first choice.
The game adopts 15 rounds and 8 wins, the order is mixed doubles, women's singles, men's singles, men's doubles or women's doubles, the first set of mixed doubles, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha 1-2 defeated Hayasuke Togami / Zhang Benmeihe (11-5, 11-13, 9-11), Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha is a two-time World Table Tennis Championships champion, ranked first in the world, with absolute strength, I really didn't expect to lose this time, and it is worth summarizing many unnecessary mistakes.
In the second set of women's singles, Wang Manyu swept Hina Hayada (11-6, 11-9, 11-5) 3-0, after her teammates lost the game, Wang Manyu withstood the pressure and deserved praise, the coaching staff reused her It was the right decision, and she played steadily and never softly at critical moments, and in the third set of men's singles, Fan Zhendong lost 1-2 to Tomokazu Zhang (3-11, 6-11, 11-7), Fan Zhendong was a little slow at first, and it was indeed late to find the state.
According to the rules of the event, the lower-ranked Japanese team chose the event, the fourth set of women's doubles, Chen Meng/Wang Manyu reversed Kihara Miyu/Zhang Ben Miwa 2-1 (10-12, 11-3, 13-11), saved the game point and successfully turned the table, the fifth set of the men's doubles Ma Long/Wang Chuqin defeated Sho Sone/Hayasuke Togami (11-5) 1-0, the national table tennis defeated Japan 8-5, and faced South Korea in the next round, directly determining the championship of the World Cup.