Wang Manyu won Chen Meng in two consecutive major competitions, and the Olympic singles competition was dominant
On March 30, the WTT Incheon Championship women's singles final matchup was released! Sun Yingsha defeated Wang Yidi 4-0, Wang Manyu defeated Chen Meng 4-2, and Sun Yingsha will compete with Wang Manyu for the women's singles championship in the women's singles world No. 1 and world No. 2 finals.
This competition is the first stop after the national table tennis coaching staff adjusted the women's team Olympic singles selection method, and the champion can get 1,000 world ranking points and 1,000 international competition bonus points, but if you lose the foreign war, the corresponding Olympic points will be deducted. The national table tennis sent Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, and Chen Meng to play in the women's singles competition, and the top four in the world became the top four seeds in the tournament, two entered the upper half of the region, and two entered the lower half. In the end, the four main forces of national table tennis did not lose the foreign war, successfully won the women's singles semifinals, and locked the women's singles championship in advance.
The women's singles semifinals in the first half were between Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi. Sun Yingsha is firmly at the top of the world ranking list and the Olympic standings of the national table tennis women's team, locking an Olympic women's singles place in advance, while Wang Yidi missed the Olympic singles qualification in advance because she lost to the national table tennis Olympic mastiff rivals at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban last year, the Hangzhou Asian Games and this year's Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships. In this tournament, Sun Yingsha defeated Japan's Miu Hirano 3-0 and Swedish chipper Bergström 3-1 in the first two rounds. In the 1/4 finals, Sun Yingsha and Japan's first sister Hina Hayada played five games, and finally defeated their opponents 9-11, 11-5, 9-11, 11-6, 11-6, and 3-2 to advance to the semifinals.
Wang Yidi defeated Yang Xiaoxin of Monaco 3-1 in the first round, Samara of Romania 3-1 in the second round, and lost three straight games 11-4, 11-9, 11-4 in the quarterfinals, and defeated Austria's Polkanova 3-0. In the semifinals, Wang Yidi and Sun Yingsha have been biting tightly, but they always have a bad breath when they are critical points, and finally Sun Yingsha won four games in a row 11-9, 11-9, 12-10, 11-7, and defeated Wang Yidi 4-0 and took the lead in advancing to the finals.
The women's singles semi-finals in the lower half were between Wang Manyu and Chen Meng, and this was also the second time the two met after the women's singles semi-finals of the previous Singapore Grand Slam. Wang Manyu defeated Germany's Mirantem 3-0 in the first round, Chinese Taipei's Zheng Yijing 3-0 in the second round, and defeated South Korea's Tian Zhixi 3-1 in the quarterfinals 11-7, 14-16, 11-8, 11-7. Chen Meng defeated France's Pavard and Japan's Miwa Zhang 3-0 in the first two rounds, and defeated Romania's Szokos 3-2 in five games in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, Wang Manyu defeated Chen Meng 11-5, 13-15, 7-11, 11-4, 11-7, 11-3, 4-2 and entered the final. The first two seeds of the tournament will meet in the finals, Wang Manyu will compete with Sun Yingsha for the championship.
Wang Manyu and Chen Meng are direct contenders for the second women's singles ticket to the Paris Olympics, and the Olympic points of the two are very close, and in addition to the Incheon Championships, there are also two tournaments in the Macau Singles World Cup and the Saudi Grand Slam, and it is still unknown who will get the Olympic singles ticket in the end. In the Singapore Grand Slam, Wang Manyu defeated Chen Meng 4-1 to enter the final and finally won the championship.