The first round of the women's singles at the WTT Nagoya Women's Finals 2023 continues. In the second game, German table tennis veteran Han Ying played against Korean table tennis player Zhu Qianxi.
Both are Chinese players. Han Ying is 40 years old, still highly competitive, and has been active in the world table tennis for a long time, ranking ninth in the world.
Zhu Qianxi is very young, only 21 years old, only appeared on the international stage this year, with superb skills, has achieved good results, the world ranking has been rising, and now it is ranked 15th, only behind Shin Yubin in the Korean women's table tennis team. Maybe soon, Zhu Qianxi will become the first sister of Korean women's table tennis. Zhu Qianxi's style of play is a little more aggressive than Shen Yubin.
Han Ying and Zhu Qianxi played once on the international stage, and Han Ying won at that time.
Zhu Qianxi is a right-handed straight board and is good at attacking. Han Ying is also a right-handed straight board, but it is a chipping style of play. It's a big fight.
Han Ying narrowly defeated Zhu Qianxi 3-2 and advanced to the quarterfinals.
In the first game, Zhu Qianxi made a 3:0 start. At 5:2, Zhu Qianxi scored 3 points in a row to open up the difference. fell into a stalemate, Zhu Qianxi maintained the lead and won the first game 11:6. In the first game, Zhu Qianxi played more actively and controlled the pace of the game.
After a stalemate at the beginning of the second game, Zhu Qianxi began to move on a large scale, forcing Han Ying to change her rhythm. Zhu Qianxi scored 3 points in a row and led Han Ying 6:3.
Chipper Han Ying also wanted to speed up the pace and bite the score. Han Ying chased the score to 7:8 and only trailed by 1 point. It's a game of patience. As long as Zhu Qianxi lacks patience, there will be mistakes. When Zhu Qianxi took a 9-8 lead, he called a timeout.
Zhu Qianxi won the game point with 10:9. Zhu Qianxi made a mistake and scored 2 points in a row. At the critical moment, Zhu Qianxi made another mistake, and Han Ying played a sideline ball. Han Ying pulled one back at 13:11.
In the second game, Han Ying's experience played a role. is to use the chipping ball to kill Zhu Qianxi's fighting spirit and make Zhu Qianxi take the initiative to make mistakes. Han Ying saw the opportunity to attack again. Chippers need to have enough offensive ability. If you can't die on a board and fall into the rhythm of your opponent, you will be very passive. Several members of the national table tennis team, such as Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng and other players, are good at playing chippers and do not give the other party a chance to waste at all.
In the third game, the two played their respective strengths and tied the score at 4. Zhu Qianxi scored 3 points in a row to take the lead. The two sides fought to 8:6, and Zhu Qianxi scored 3 points in a row and won the third game 11:6.
In the fourth game, Han Ying made a strong effort and made a 5:1 start. Zhu Qianxi is not very comfortable with the chipper's style of play. Zhu Qianxi scored 2 points in a row to narrow the difference. Zhu Qianxi made a lot of mistakes, and Han Ying scored 3 points in a row to lead Zhu Qianxi 8:3.
Han Ying played frizzily and also made mistakes, losing 3 points in a row, and the difference was only 2 points. Han Ying called a timeout.
Han Ying played her "Korean-style consumption psychology method" and won the game point 10:7. Zhu Qianxi had to take the initiative to attack and scored 3 points in a row to tie the score. At the critical moment, Han Ying dared to make a move, and won the fourth game 12:10 twice.
In the fifth game, Zhu Qianxi took a 4:2 lead and was overtaken by Han Ying with 3 points in a row. Zhu Qianxi played too cautiously and didn't dare to take the initiative, so she would be very passive. Han Ying became more and more courageous and won the fifth game 11:8.
In the end, Han Ying defeated Zhu Qianxi 3-2 and advanced to the quarterfinals of women's singles. Han Ying was extremely excited and raised her hands in celebration.
In the first match, Wang Yidi defeated Shen Yubin 3-1.
South Korea participated in the women's singles competition with two people, and they all lost, and the whole situation was destroyed.