Incheon Championship: Wang Manyu eliminated Chen Mengjin 4-2 to enter the final and compete with Sun Yingsha for the women's singles championship
On the evening of March 30, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Incheon Championship ushered in the focus of the battle, the two main forces of national table tennis Wang Manyu and Chen Meng met in a narrow way, not only to compete for the qualification of the women's singles finals, but also to fight for more Paris Olympic selection points for themselves, as a result, Wang Manyu won 4-2 after 6 rounds of fierce battles between the two sides, and successfully advanced while also achieving points overtaking, beating Chen Meng to reach the second place in the team.
Prior to this, national table tennis player Sun Yingsha had swept teammate Wang Yidi 4-0 to advance, so the women's singles championship will be produced between Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu: the peak duel is about to be staged again, and it is unknown who will die!
Highlights of the game
Chen Meng is the singles and team double champion of the Tokyo Olympics, Wang Manyu is the team champion, after the arrival of the Paris Olympic cycle, the two continue to compete, the current gap in the team standings is very small, ranked second and third respectively, if Chen Meng can win this time, it will expand the lead over Wang Manyu, but if she loses, she will inevitably be surpassed by the opponent.
According to the regulations of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, the top two athletes in the team will be qualified for singles, and in the case of Wang Yidi being eliminated in advance and Sun Yingsha being far ahead, the women's singles qualification is either Chen Meng or Wang Manyu, so this battle is very important for the two.
The process of the game
After the start of the game, Wang Manyu took the lead in launching, using a more advanced backhand twist in the table to break the defense, forming a topspin ball faster and then playing slow with a fast game, Chen Meng stood close to the platform and couldn't resist, and the retreat was more passive, and he was not an opponent at all after the middle game, and finally lost a game with a 5-11 defeat, playing very passively.
In the second game, the two played inextricably again, this time Chen Meng played relatively more patiently, so he successfully entangled the score, and then although it was reversed for a time, it still opened the situation through the change of landing point and line, and won back a city with difficulty 15-13.
In the third game, Chen Meng continued to control the error rate, overwhelmed Wang Manyu with a more stable output, and then achieved a reversal of 11-7, but at the beginning of the fourth game, Wang Manyu once again made efforts to attack Chen Meng's defense, trying to simplify the game, and soon won 11-4 easily, and the two returned to the same running line again, and the next fifth game is undoubtedly the key to the competition between the two sides.
After returning to the game, Chen Meng tried his best to make Wang Manyu's awkward return ball difficult to twist and pull with high quality, but the start had little effect, and he soon fell behind 1-5, and then continued to be beaten passively, and finally lost 7-11 again and was forced into a desperate situation, and the situation was critical.
In the sixth game, Chen Meng lost the whole game 3-11, thus stopping in the semifinals of the women's singles and missing the finals to compete for the championship.
With the end of this competition, Wang Manyu's Olympic selection points surpassed Chen Meng for the first time and reached the second place in the national table tennis women's team.
According to the arrangement, the women's singles final of the WTT Incheon Championships will kick off on the evening of March 31, so let's pay attention to the results of the peak showdown between Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu!