On March 30, Beijing time, the 2024 WTT Incheon Championship entered the fourth day of competition. The "Four Golden Flowers" of national table tennis once again swept the women's singles semifinals, among which Chen Meng successfully "revenged" Szokos, Sun Yingsha reversed Hina Hayata, Wang Yidi and Wang Manyu advanced strongly.
Women's Singles 1/4 finals
1. Wang Yidi 3-0 Polkanova
Scores in three sets: 11-4, 11-9, 11-4.
Wang Yidi's speed and the quality of the board at the beginning exceeded his opponent's expectations, and he won the first game quickly. In the second game, Wang Yidi fell behind 0-3 at the beginning, and then scored 6 points in a row. Polkanova, who held the racket in her left hand, repeatedly backhanded fast with a big slash, and also played a wave of 5-0 scoring waves, 8-6 to overtake the score. Wang Yidi withstood the pressure, scored three points in a row, got the game point 10-8, and finally won the key game 11-9. In the third game, the game was completely under Wang Yidi's control, and he only lost 4 points to win strongly.
Wang Yidi's winning streak against Polkanova reached "three consecutive wins".
2. Chen Meng 3-2 Szokos
五局比分：11-2，7-11，11-2，4-11，11-9。
The two sides have played each other five times before, with Chen Meng winning 3 wins and 2 losses, but losing both times in the Paris Olympic cycle, at the 2022 WTT Macau Championships and the 2023 WTT Frankfurt Championships, both of which were 2-3 losses. Szokos's speed and line change are very penetrating.
In this game, Chen Meng came prepared, received the serve and firmly rubbed the ball to the bottom line of the backhand position, and increased rotation in the process of holding, the purpose was to force the opponent to retreat, so that she could not stand close to the fast attack, the tactical effect was obvious, the first game was 11-2 quick victory, and the second game also achieved a perfect start of 5-0, but then did not maintain oppression, and once again handed over the initiative to the opponent, and Szokos gradually got better, blasting out a wave of 10-2 scoring, and finally pulled back a city with 11-7, and the first two games were tied 1-1. When Chen Meng played normally, the opponent couldn't do anything, and Szokos waited for Chen Meng's mentality to fluctuate to fight back, and he did so in the second game.
In the third game, Chen Meng won 11-2 again, but unfortunately he made mistakes at the beginning of the fourth game and fell behind 0-5. Chen Meng's adjustment is too slow, a jam is a game, and he has no desire to win this game if he is behind. As a result, the fourth game was defeated 4-11, and the game was dragged into a tiebreaker. In the deciding game, Chen Meng was tied for many leads, scored 3 points in a row after 6-6, and finally won 11-9.
If you grasp the second game tightly, there is a high probability that you will be able to end the battle 3-0, but you have to toss five rounds. Although Chen Meng won the game, she could only give her overall performance 60 points, in short, it was unsatisfactory and did not play at her due level.
3. Sun Yingsha 3-2 Hina Hayata
五局比分：9-11，11-5，9-11，11-6，11-6。
In this game, Sun Yingsha was a little slow to heat up, and was seized by Hina Hayata, falling behind 1-5 in the first game, although Sun Yingsha tried to catch up with the score in the game, but at the end of the game 9-9 The key point, Sun Yingsha made a forehand pick mistake, and finally lost a game 9-11. In the second game, Sun Yingsha took the initiative to speed up, quickly opened the score, and pulled back a city 11-5. In the third game, Sun Yingsha fell into the situation of chasing points behind in the opening game, made many mistakes on the serve, and finally lost by 2 points. Sun Yingsha, who had no way out, won 11-6 in the fourth game and tied the score twice in a row. After a 4-4 draw in the deciding game, Sun Yingsha scored 4 points in a row, grasped the initiative, and finally locked the victory 11-6.
Hina Hayada knew that her overall strength was not as good as Sun Yingsha's, so she could only keep changing her serve, disrupting Sun Yingsha's rhythm, grabbing a good start, and seizing the key points at the end of the game. To be honest, Hina Hayata's tactics were executed in place, and it was already very good to force Sun Yingsha to a tiebreaker again.
With Sun's comeback victory, her winning streak against Hina Hayada reached an astonishing "14 straight wins".
4. Wang Manyu 3-1 Tian Zhixi
Scores in four games: 11-7, 14-16, 11-8, 11-7.
Tian Zhixi, as the only remaining player of the host South Korean team, must still want to replicate the drama of defeating Misei Ito in the previous round and go further.
In this game, Tian Zhixi's overall performance was even better than when facing Ito Micheng, if it weren't for Wang Manyu standing opposite, very few players could withstand her continuous attack, and the speed was fast and tricky. In the first game, Wang Manyu scored 3 points in a row after 8-7; was reversed after 10-8 in the second game; after 9-8 in the third game, Sheng withstood Tian Zhixi's attack and scored two points in defense; in the fourth game, Wang Manyu did not give the opponent any more chances, opened the score at the beginning, and finally ended the game with 11-7.
Although Tian Zhixi lost, he was still honored. Wang Manyu's latest winning streak against Tian Zhixi is "five consecutive wins".
Women's Singles semi-finals vs. situation
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20:15 陈梦VS王曼昱
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