At 15 o'clock on December 24, the women's team final of the Table Tennis Super League Finals will stage a peak showdown. Shandong Luneng led by Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong and Qian Tianyi will face off against Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, and Kuo Man's Shenzhen University.
In the semi-finals, Shandong Luneng played against Shanghai Longteng. The Shandong team has gathered Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi and other national table tennis forces, and Shanghai Longteng's side, only Zhang Rui is in charge. Although Wang Manyu defeated the Shanghai team's number one singles Zhang Rui 3-1, Chen Xingtong unexpectedly lost to the teenager Chen Yi.
But in the end, Wang Manyu shot again, and finally Shandong Luneng entered the final 3-1 without danger.
The script of Shenzhen University is exactly the same as that of Shandong Luneng, and the number one women's singles of Shanghai East China University of Technology opposite is Wang Yidi. After Chen Meng and Kuo Man easily won the first doubles, Sun Yingsha defeated Wang Yidi 3-0, clearing the biggest obstacle for Shenzhen University. But in the third game, Chen Meng faced the teenager Li Yake, but unexpectedly lost 0-3, and in the end, Sun Yingsha turned the tide and defeated Zhao Shang 3-0 to help the Shenzhen team lock the victory.
Shandong Luneng and Shenzhen team met together in the first stage of this season's Table Tennis Super League, when Shandong Luneng defeated Shenzhen University 3-2, and because of this victory, Shandong Luneng sat firmly on the top spot in the first stage.
As the two strongest teams in the Table Tennis Super League, Shandong Luneng and Shenzhen University met in the finals for four consecutive years, and in the first three matchups, the Shenzhen team won the 2020 season championship, and in the first two seasons, it was Shandong Luneng who had the last laugh.
Judging from the lineup comparison, the two teams are almost comparable, Shenzhen University has Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng in charge, plus the teenager Kuo Man as an assistant, and Shandong Luneng's Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, and Qian Tianyi are also very strong. In addition to Sun Yingsha's slightly stronger strength, the results of other games are really hard to say.
It is foreseeable that in the doubles match, Chen Xingtong and Qian Tianyi will face Chen Meng and Kuo Man, and the most exciting is the second women's singles, Wang Manyu will challenge Sun Yingsha head-on, which will be a match of needles against Mai Mang. In the national table tennis women's team, if there is a player who can bring trouble to Sun Yingsha, it must be Wang Manyu in a healthy state.
In the 2023 season, Sun Yingsha won 7 singles championships, including the most critical Singapore Grand Slam, Durban World Table Tennis Championships, Hangzhou Asian Games and year-end finals, Sun Yingsha won all the championships, while Wang Manyu only won the Pyeongchang Asian Championships.
The two have met a total of four times this year, and Sun Yingsha has 3 wins and 1 loss, maintaining an absolute advantage. Among them, in the Singapore Grand Slam in March, Wang Manyu lost to Sun Yingsha 0-4, in Ljubljana in July, Wang Manyu lost to Sun Yingsha 0-3, and in the Asian Championships in September, Wang Manyu defeated Sun Yingsha 3-2 and finally got back a city. In the Lanzhou Challenge in October, Wang Manyu lost to Sun Yingsha 2-3.
In the semifinals of this table tennis Super League, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu both won two games in a row, but Wang Manyu first reversed Zhang Rui 3-2, and then defeated Sun Mingyang 3-1. And Sun Yingsha, whether facing her old opponent Wang Yidi or the new star Zhao Shang, won 3-0 easily.
If Wang Manyu wants to defeat Sun Yingsha, there is a chance, but it is not easy.