In the 2023 WTT Nagoya Women's Finals, the doubles 1/4 finals will be contested on December 6, and the Chinese table tennis team has 2 groups of players. After fierce competition, the Chen Meng/Wang Yidi combination and the Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu combination both advanced, and the two sides will meet in the semi-finals.
Lower Half Ward
Oh/Wang Yidi 3-0 Ni Xialian/De-Nut【12-10;11-2;11-4】
Chen Meng/Wang Yidi, ranked second in the world with 3,490 points, have won the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships in Durban and the runner-up in the 2023 Singapore Grand Slam. Wang Yidi is ranked No. 1 in the world in individual doubles, and Chen Meng is ranked No. 2 in the world in individual doubles, and their individual singles and doubles rankings are relatively high.
The Ni Xialian/De Nouter combination is from Luxembourg, Ni Xialian is a Chinese veteran, and table tennis fans are no strangers to it. The pair, ranked ninth in the world with 1,150 points, finished runners-up in the Women's Doubles at the Ljubljana Star Challenge in 2023. Ni is ranked 47th in singles and 23rd in doubles, while De Nutt is ranked 129th in singles and 22nd in doubles.
Game recap
The two sides alternated scores to 2 draws at the beginning, and the Mengdi combination scored a strong attack, which led to 5-2, and then the Luxembourg combination chased 2 points in a row, and the Mengyu combination made a mistake and still did not control it, so that the opponent chased it to 6 draws. After that, the Mengdi combination still made mistakes, and the Luxembourg combination led to 9-7 and won the game point at 10-8, and then Chen Meng scored a key twist, and tacitly cooperated with the use of serve to attack, reversed the game point 11-10, and won the first game 12-10.
In the second game, the Luxembourg team pulled back one point, and then the Luxembourg team made a series of mistakes, and the Mendi team led to 8-1. After that, the Mendi duo continued to make quick shots to get the game point at 10-1, and then the Luxembourg duo chased another point, and the Mengdi duo won the second game 11-2.
In the third game, the two sides alternated scores to 2 draws, and Mendi scored 3 points in a row to take a 5-2 lead, and then the Luxembourg combination scored 1 point, and the Mengdi combination was no longer polite, and the consecutive points led to 8-3. After that, the Mengdi team continued to work together tacitly to get the match point at 10-3, and then the Luxembourg team recovered one point, and the Mengdi team won 11-4.
So far, the Chen Meng/Wang Yidi combination defeated their opponents 3-0 and successfully advanced to the women's doubles semifinals.
Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu 3-0 Bergstrom/C-Carlberg【11-9;11-7;11-8】
China's Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu are ranked third in the world, while Sweden's Bergstrom/Carlberg are ranked fifth. In this match, the Chinese pair Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu played well, defeating the Swedish pair Bergstrom/C-Carlberg in straight games to successfully advance to the semi-finals of the women's doubles.
Upper Half District
Zheng Yijing/Li Yuzhen 3-0 Du Kaiqin/Zhu Chengzhu【11-9;11-8;11-2】
Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin 2-3 Miyu Nagasaki/Miyu Kihara【6-11;11-6;11-2;7-11;3-11】
There were no Chinese table tennis players in the first two matches, and Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong played each other, and the result was a one-sided match, with Chinese Taipei's Zheng Yijing/Li Yuchen beating Du Hoi-kim/Zhu Chengzhu to advance to the semi-finals.
The other match is a Japan-South Korea matchup, with South Korea's Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin ranked No. 1 in the world and Miyu Nagasaki/Miyu Kihara ranked No. 7 in the world. In this game, the Korean pair was in the upper hand, but they did not withstand the crucial moment in the fourth game, and were suddenly lost after being dragged to the tiebreaker, and the Japanese team won 3-2 to advance to the semifinals.
Semi-final schedule
Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu VS Account/Wang Yidi【12/17-12:00】
Zheng Yijing/Li Yuzhen VS Nagasaki Miyu/Kihara Miyu【12/17-12:35】