On the afternoon of December 16, Beijing time, the national table tennis ushered in the first women's doubles match of the WTT Nagoya Women's Finals, and the two-time World Table Tennis Championships champion combination Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu appeared on the stage to compete with the average Swedish pair Bergström/Carlberg, and the two national table tennis Olympic champions won 3-0 to advance, but also encountered a certain impact.
The Women's Doubles semi-finals are now out of the list, with Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu next up between Chen Meng/Wang Yidi and Ni Xialian/Drutte, while Chinese Taipei's Zheng Yijing/Li Yuzhen are also comfortably beaten against a pair from Japan and South Korea.
See below for a detailed breakdown of the battle.
There are only eight pairs of pairs participating in the women's doubles event in this finals, and two pairs of Chinese table tennis teams are all World Table Tennis Championships champions, of which Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu is the gold medalist in 2019 and 2021, and Chen Meng/Wang Yidi is the new king in 2023, but everyone was divided into the same half in the finals, so the Chinese team missed the championship and runner-up in advance.
After the start of the women's doubles competition, the first opponent of the national table tennis was the Swedish chipper Bergström and his teammate Carlberg, the two of them were of average strength, and they were not very conducive to the "offensive match" of doubles, so it is generally believed that the probability of the national table tennis being upset is not large.
After the start of the game, although Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu had an advantage, they also had to familiarize themselves with the Swedish combination's ball path - as mentioned earlier, the attacking match is not a very suitable doubles cooperation model, but because of this, it is rare to be expensive, and the national table tennis combination will be somewhat unfamiliar, and the two sides were entangled until 9 draws before separating the winner, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu won 11-9.
In the second game, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu fell behind for a while, and they were still a little uncomfortable with each other, but the gap in strength between the two sides was a bit big after all, and soon the national table tennis combination completed the reversal with 11-7, and the big score was 2-0 ahead and victory was in sight.
In the third game, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu struck while the iron was hot, and finally ended the battle 11-8, and swept Bergstrom/Carlberg with a big score of 3-0, ushering in a good start for the Chinese team in women's doubles.
Prior to this, Chinese Taipei's Zheng Yijing/Li Yuzhen played steadily, and had swept Hong Kong's Du Kaiqin/Zhu Chengzhu 3-0, and then Chen Meng/Wang Yidi will appear to face Luxembourg's Ni Xialian/Druit, South Korea's World No. 1 Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin will play against Japan's former world No. 1 Miyu Kihara/Nagasaki Miyu, which is worth paying attention to!