On March 29, Beijing time, the women's singles 1/8 finals of the table tennis WTT Incheon Championship continued. In the just-concluded match, Austria's Polkanova played well and continued to cause upsets, sweeping the world's higher-ranked Brazilian sister Bruner 3-0. After Hina Hayada took the lead in the cut, Polkanova became the second female player to advance to the quarterfinals.
In terms of world rankings, Bruna is ranked 19th and Polkanova is ranked 29th. On the way to qualify, Polkanova let two chase three in the first round, eliminated the tournament seeded player Shen Yubin, and caused a big upset. Bruner, on the other hand, eliminated German star Shan Xiaona 3-1. Can Polkanova continue to deliver magical performances?
After the start of the game, Bruna started well, but Polkanova took the lead, and I have to say that the Austrian player's singles are still of high quality, breaking the opponent's defense many times, and quickly won 11-8.
Then in the second game, Polkanova continued to strengthen the offensive and used the rotation to play the rhythm, Bruner seemed to have few ways, after the middle game, Bruna's state dropped, Polkanova took the game point again, 11-7 and the next city, the big score 2-0 lead the opponent, Bruner is in danger.
In the third game, Polkanova was unstoppable, blasting 3-0 at the beginning, Bruna was forced to call a timeout, and after coming back, Bruna chased the score, but Polkanova quickly opened the score, leading 9-5, and then got the match point, and finally sealed the victory 11-7.
In this game, Bruna did not arrange an off-court coach, maybe she felt that it would be relatively easy to win, her boyfriend Hugo served as an off-court in the last round, but Hugo had just finished the game, maybe the time was not allowed, Bruna was somewhat careless. Polkanova will face the winner of Wang Yidi and Samara in the next round!