The 2024 ITTF Busan World Table Tennis Team Championships kicked off on the morning of the 16th. In the first match of the group stage, the top two women's world rankings Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi lost to the Indian player, Wang Manyu won two sets, and the defending champion Chinese team won 3:2.
China's Sun Yingsha was the first to take the stage against India's Mukherjee. Holding a raw rubber on one side and an anti-arc rubber racket, Mukherjee played a special style, with a steady defense in the game, a large change in the rotation of the return ball, and often interspersed with high-quality fights, winning the first game 12:10. Sun Yingsha won 11:2 in the second game, and lost 11:13 after holding two game points in the third game. In the crucial fourth game, Sun Yingsha began to shout self-motivation, but the opponent won 11:6 with high-quality defensive counterattacks, and the Chinese team lost one point 1:3.
India's Mukherjee returned the ball in the first set. In the end, she defeated the Chinese team Sun Yingsha 3-1
"I won against the world number one and today is my day. Mukherjee, ranked 155th in the world, says he has no special plans, just to give it his all and enjoy every score against the world's best athletes.
Sun Yingsha said that she was not particularly decisive in the control of key points, which was the main reason for the loss.
Wang Manyu made her second appearance against Batra, and she only missed in the third game, winning 3-1 to save a point for the Chinese team. Wang Yidi, who appeared in the third game, lost three games in a row 7:11, 9:11, and 11:13 and lost to Akula.
China's Wang Manyu celebrates in the final set. She beat India's Mukherjee 3-0
Sun Yingsha reappeared in the fourth set against Batra. When she reviewed her second appearance after the game, she believed that the main thing was to "fight point by point" and finally won 3:1. The Chinese team and the Indian team drew 2:2.
China's Sun Yingsha (left) celebrates to tie the aggregate score at 2-2 after beating India's Batra 3-1 in the fourth set
In the deciding set, Wang Manyu faced Mukherjee, who had a more peculiar style of play that was a constant threat. The scores of the two sides rose alternately in the first game, and after the battle reached 9:9, Wang Manyu scored 2 points in a row to win the first game. In the second game, Wang Manyu was overtaken by the opponent when he was leading by 3 points, and the two sides fought 10:10 and 11:11 successively, and at the critical moment, Wang Manyu changed the service point and won two points in a row to win 13:11. In the third game, Wang Manyu won 11:6 and helped the Chinese team win the game with a total score of 3:2.
Wang Manyu said that before the second appearance, he studied the opponent's playing style through video, and gradually groped and adapted to the opponent's rotation in the game, and finally won the game.
After the game, the players said that they had adapted to different playing styles through the first game and mobilized their own state, which helped the Chinese team to play in subsequent matches to a certain extent.
Source: Xinhua K25