The Chinese women's table tennis team narrowly defeated Japan 3-2 and was crowned the sixth consecutive champion of the women's team at the World Table Tennis Championships
On February 24, 2024, Beijing time, the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships ushered in the women's team final, and the Chinese women's table tennis and the Japanese women's table tennis met in a narrow way. The lineup of the Chinese women's table tennis is still Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, and the Japanese women's table tennis is played by Miwa Zhangmoto, Hina Hayata, and Miyu Hirano. After a fierce competition, the national table tennis won 3-2 thrillingly and was crowned the sixth consecutive champion of the women's team at the World Table Tennis Championships.
Match Focus
The Chinese women's table tennis was stubbornly blocked by India in the first round of the group stage, Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi were defeated, and Wang Manyu turned the tide. After that, the Chinese women's table tennis was unstoppable, winning all the group stages and advancing to the knockout round, defeating Thailand, South Korea, and France, and advancing to the women's team finals. Since the knockout round, the lineup of Chinese women's table tennis has been very fixed, and it has been played by the world's top three Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, and Chen Meng.
The other final seat of the women's team belongs to the Japanese women's table tennis, which is also in line with the expected result. Now the Japanese women's table tennis team is led by Hina Hayata, Miu Hirano is recovering, Miwa Zhang is rising fiercely, and Misei Ito is enjoying the game, and the Japanese coach is also comfortable in arranging the formation. From the group stage to the knockout round, the Japanese women's table tennis also maintained a full victory, the main players fully warmed up, and faced the national table tennis in the final, and the Japanese women's table tennis directly played with the Olympic lineup.
Specific matchups
First set: Sun Yingsha VS Zhang Benmeihe
Second set: Chen Meng VS Hina Hayata
Third set: Wang Yidi VS Miu Hirano
Fourth set: Sun Yingsha VS Hina Hayata
Fifth set: Chen Meng VS Zhang Benmeihe
The course of the game
In the first set, Sun Yingsha played against Zhang Benmeihe, Sun Yingsha quickly entered the state, and was particularly well prepared, although Zhang Benmeihe was very impactful, but there was still a big gap between her technical ability and Sun Yingsha, Sun Yingsha firmly controlled the rhythm of the game, did not give Zhang Benmeihe the opportunity to continue to fight back, won three games in a row 11-5, 11-8, 11-4, swept Zhang Benmeihe 3-0, and took the lead in national table tennis.
In the second set, Chen Meng played against Hina Hayata, and now Chen Meng is no longer slow to heat up, and launched a continuous attack after a simple trial, a wave of continuous scores in the game allowed Chen Meng to get rid of Hina Hayata, and got the game point 10-4 at the end of the game, Hina Hayada saved two game points, and Chen Meng won a game 11-6. In the second game, Hina Hayada fought back strongly and took an 8-5 lead, but Chen Meng made too many unnecessary mistakes and lost the game 8-11. In the third game, Chen Meng still made too many mistakes, the quality of the board dropped significantly, and she fell behind 1-6 at the beginning, she tried to adjust, but Hina Hayada attacked fiercely, leading 10-5 after consecutive points, Chen Meng scored 4 points in a row to chase 9-10, and Hina Hayada called a timeout. Hina Hayada won a crucial point to win another game 11-9. In the fourth game, Chen Meng readjusted and took a 7-4 lead, Hina Hayada chased 2 points in a row, Ma Lin called a timeout, Hina Hayada scored 6 points in a row and got the handicap point at 10-7, Chen Meng did not give up chasing 10 draws. Chen Meng saved 4 set points, but unfortunately missed 1 game point, Hina Hayada relied on a bouncing net balloon to cash in the handicap, won the game 14-12, and defeated Chen Meng with a big score of 3-1.
In the third set, Wang Yidi played against Miu Hirano, who was behind for most of the first game and lost the first game 8-11. In the second game, Wang Yidi called a timeout after falling behind 6-7, and then got the game point 10-8, but unfortunately Wang Yidi missed three game points and lost another game at 11-13. In the third game, Wang Yidi once led 7-3, but still missed the opportunity, lost another game 10-12, and lost to Miyu Hirano 0-3, and lost to Miyu Hirano.
In the fourth set, Sun Yingsha appeared again against Hina Hayata, Sun Yingsha was in a hot state, completely mastered the opponent, won three games in a row 11-2, 11-7, 11-6, swept Hina Hayata, and dragged the game into the deciding set.
In the deciding set, Chen Meng played against Zhang Benmeihe. In the first game, Chen Meng fell into a slow heat cycle again, losing a game 4-11. Then Chen Meng adjusted in time and pulled back a game 11-7. In the third game, Chen Meng scored 5 points in a row after falling behind 6-8 and won another game 11-8. Chen Meng guarded the bottom line, defeated Zhang Benmeihe, helped the national table tennis narrowly defeat Japan 3-2, and was crowned the sixth consecutive champion of the women's team at the World Table Tennis Championships!