On the evening of December 10, Beijing time, the 2023 ITTF First Mixed Team World Cup came to an end in Chengdu, Sichuan. In the championship and runner-up competition, the Chinese team and the South Korean team staged a strong dialogue, and in the end, the Chinese team composed of Fan Zhendong, Wang Manyu, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha defeated the opponent with a big score of 8-1 and won the championship. Interestingly, Sun Yingsha said in an interview after the game that the game was very intense. The fans ridiculed that they were too modest, saying that they didn't see the fierce place.
This is the first time in the history of the Chinese table tennis team to lift the mixed team World Cup championship trophy - Guoliang Solin Cup!
First Mixed Doubles: Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha 3-0 Ahn Jae-hyun and Shin Yubin
Second Women's Singles: Wang Manyu 3-0 Kim Naying
The third men's singles: Fan Zhendong 2-1 Lee Sang-so
Keep winning all home and aim to win the championship
This World Cup is the first mixed team competition held by the International Table Tennis Federation, with a total of 18 teams participating. Among them, the host country China is the top seed, and Germany, Japan and South Korea are the top four seeds. According to the rules, the competition is divided into two stages. The first stage is a round-robin group stage, with the top two teams advancing to the quarterfinals. In the second stage, 8 teams play each other one by one, and the teams that have already met are automatically avoided. The Chinese team sent a lineup of 4 men and 4 women, namely Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng and Wang Yidi.
In the first group stage, the Chinese team defeated Sweden, Hong Kong, China and Puerto Rico respectively to advance to the quarterfinals as the group leader. In the second stage, the main opponents of the Chinese team are Japan, South Korea, Germany, etc. In the first four rounds, the Chinese team defeated the Slovak team, the Chinese Taipei team, the French team and the German team relatively easily, and won 7 consecutive victories. In the last round, the Chinese team played a very hard game against the Japanese team. Mixed doubles world champions Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, and men's singles world champion Fan Zhendong lost 1-2. Fortunately, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng, Ma Long and others played well and helped the team win 8-5.
China vs South Korea match recap
In the final round, the Chinese team competed for the championship with the old rival South Korean team. Both teams have won all of their previous matches and are in good form overall. The morale of the South Korean team was boosted after beating the Japanese team, and with coach Zhu Shihyuk being good at arranging troops, the Chinese team will not have an easy time fighting against them. In this game, the Chinese team continued to send Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Fan Zhendong and so on. In the first mixed doubles, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha's opponents Ahn Jae-hyun and Shin Yu-bin.
In the first game, the "Shatou Combination" entered the state quickly and won 11-8. In the second game, the two pairs played inextricably, and at the critical moment, the Chinese pair scored consecutive attacks and won another game 11-8. In the third game, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha completely controlled the pace of the game and won the game 11-5. In the second women's singles, world champion Wang Manyu, who played a great role in the match against Japan, will play again, and her opponent will be South Korean teenager Kim Na-young. In three games, Wang Manyu didn't give her opponent too many chances and won 11-2, 11-5, 11-7. In the third men's singles, world No. 1 Fan Zhendong faced South Korean star Lee Sang-so. With China already leading South Korea 6-0, Fan Zhendong only needed to win two games to help his team win the championship. In the end, Fan Zhendong defeated his opponent with a big score of 2-1, and the Chinese team won the championship with a complete victory.
(Shopkeeper Luo)