At 19:30 on December 9, 2023, Beijing time, the first Table Tennis Mixed Team World Cup, the national table tennis and Japan will face off. In the first two mixed doubles matches, Japan's Togami and Zhang Benmei reversed the "Shatou" combination, and in the second round, Wang Manyu defeated Hayada in three games, and the two sides were tied, leading 4:2.
The third men's singles
In the first game, Fan Zhendong entered the state slowly, made more mistakes, Zhang Ben played calmly, scored all the way to lead 5:2, led 9-3 at the beginning and got the game point 10:3, Fan Zhendong returned the ball to the net and lost a game 3:11.
In the second game, Fan Zhendong still fell into passivity, and Zhang Ben went crazy. After the Chinese team was forced to call a timeout, Zhang Ben was caught off guard by a defensive return ball, leading 7:4, the scene was extremely passive, Fan Zhendong held the ball with a backhand and then twisted and pulled it, but unfortunately the opponent wiped the side, 10:6. In the end, Zhang Ben won a 2-0 lead 11:6, and the two sides tied at 4.
The third game is a battle of honor. Fan Zhendong woke up like a dream, cheered up, the two sides entered the stage of stalemate, until 6 draws, Fan Zhendong played a side down, and then pulled back. After the pause, Fan Zhendong scored 2 points in a row, 9:6, but Zhang Ben refused to admit defeat, and Fan Zhendong won 11:7 with a backhand.
Unexpectedly, the Chinese team lost two of the three games, and Fan Zhendong was like sleepwalking, losing the first two games without yielding at all, and his fighting spirit was completely lost. Wang Chuqin is even more outrageous, and his serve is not good.
In the fourth match, the women's doubles combination could not afford to be lost, the national table tennis sent Chen Meng and Wang Manyu to the combination, and the Japanese team Zhang Benmei and Kihara Miyu played again.
The first game was extremely anxious, Wang Manyu changed the line but was caught by the opponent, and the Japanese pair took a large lead 7:3. Chen Meng quickly tore to chase 6:7, and the opponent made 7 mistakes. After Kihara's successive short swings, the Chinese pair stubbornly chased down to 9 draws. Japan scored 2 balloon points and won 12:10. So the two sides are tied 5:5.
In the second game, the Chinese combination gradually regained its form, leading 6:0 in the opening game, and the two sides pulled back a point 6:1, and finally the Chinese team scored continuously and scored 11:3 to equalize, with a small score of 6:5.
No matter what the third game is, both sides are going to play men's doubles, the dragon team has to play to lay the victory in one fell swoop, and the dragon team has to play at a critical time, Xiaopang and Dalong are not strong.