In the early morning of March 21, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Lebanon branch tournament staged a key showdown, and the 60-year-old former national table tennis world champion veteran Ni Xialian played bravely and swept the super dark horse from India 3-0, A. Mukherjee, who defeated Sun Yingsha at the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan not long ago: Although Mukherjee's raw rubber and arc-proof playing style are weird, he is helpless to meet Ni Xialian's direct shot long rubber.
At present, the list of the top four in women's singles has all been released, and the four most promising athletes - Du Kaiqin, Xu Xiaoyuan, Chen Siyu, and Ni Xialian have all passed, which shows that they are indeed outstanding, and the next semi-final battle is worth paying attention to.
A. Mukherjee is the first athlete to break through the national table tennis defense line at this year's World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, and defeated the world's No. 1 Sun Yingsha in the first game of the Chinese team, which is impressive, the reason is that its playing style is extremely weird, the forehand is granular raw rubber, and the backhand is arc-proof rubber.
As mentioned earlier, Ni Xialian is also a special style of play athlete, she is a left-handed, straight-shot, granular long rubber offensive athlete, and she is also unique in the current table tennis world, so the fight between the two is to compete who is more weird.
After the start of the quarterfinals, Ni Xialian took the lead and controlled the situation on the court in the first game, winning 11-7 - A. Mukherjee's good way is to defend the opponent's strong arc ball attack near the table and create a huge spin difference, and then use raw rubber to grab the attack, but Ni Xialian did not attack the arc ball at all, which made the advantage of the Indian dark horse unable to play, and then completely collapsed.
In the second game, Ni Xialian continued to launch and easily went to the next city with 11-5, and in the third game, A. Mukherjee really couldn't find any way to win, and was finally won by Ni Xialian again 11-7, so she was swept away by the defeat: it is indeed a thing to drop a thing!
In addition to Ni Xialian, Hong Kong, China's famous player and women's singles top seed Du Kaiqin also easily advanced 3-0, keeping Mukherjee's teammate Kamath clean, but Du Kaiqin's teammate Zhu Chengzhu missed the semifinals and lost 1-3 to South Korean beauty chipper Xu Xiaoyuan.
As for Ni Xialian's opponent will be Chinese Taipei's main and women's singles second seed Chen Siyu, who swept Uzbekistan's teenager Mark Harper 3-0 in the quarterfinals, and will next challenge the 60-year-old old-timer to wait for the semifinals to begin.