As we all know, the next task of the national table tennis team is the table tennis singles World Cup held in Macao on April 15, in addition to the top ten main players of the national table tennis players, Lin Shidong and Kuo Man were lucky to qualify for the World Youth Championships U19 singles championship. The table tennis singles World Cup, which has been restarted after three years, will surely attract the attention of many fans!
At present, the national table tennis team members are preparing for training in an orderly manner in China, so the national table tennis team is absent from all international competitions in early April. On April 7, Beijing time, the WTT Croatia Varazjdin Regional Tournament entered the last day of competition.
And the women's singles field of this event broke out a super upset, and the top ten seeds in the women's singles of the tournament all lost out, which was beyond everyone's expectations, and the following brings detailed information.
In this event, unlike the collective absence of the national table tennis team, the two teams of South Korea and Japan sent many players to participate, and they were mainly young players, mainly training on behalf of the competition, and from the current point of view, it has indeed achieved good results.
South Korea sent 11 players to participate in the women's singles, such as Kim Na-young, Lee Si-win, Lee Eun-hui, Liang Ha-eun and other players familiar to fans. Of the 11 South Korean women's singles players, five players started from the qualifying round, and only the 20-year-old Kim Ha-na, who has no world ranking, won three consecutive matches in the qualifying round to advance to the women's singles main draw.
The six players who directly advanced to the main tournament of the South Korean women's singles are Kim Na-young, Lee Shi-win, Liang Ha-eun, Lee Eun-hui, Kim Ha-young, Park Ga-hyun, plus Kim Ha-ro, who broke through from the qualifying round, a total of 7 Korean women's singles players advanced to the main event, and Lee Eun-hui has won 5 consecutive games to advance to the women's singles final.
In the first round of the women's singles main event, Kim Na-young, ranked 31st in the world, lost 1-3 to Kazakhstan's Mirkadilova, ranked 193rd in the world.
In the second round of the women's singles main event, which is the 1/16 finals, two more players of the South Korean women's singles lost out, Kim Ha Young lost 1-3 to teammate Liang Ha Eun, and the other lost Kim Ha Luo, who broke through from the qualifying round, and lost 2-3 to Romanian player Diaconu, ranked 48th in the world.
In the women's singles 1/8 finals, Liang Xiayin, ranked 61st in the world, lost 0-3 to Singapore's Zeng Jian, ranked 59th in the world, and Liang Xiayin was also the No. 10 seed in the women's singles; in the women's singles 1/4 finals, Li Shiwen, ranked 45th in the world, suffered a loss, 0-3 to the 19-year-old Japanese 19-year-old Yokoi Sakura, who has no world ranking, and Li Shiwen is the No. 3 seed in the women's singles.
To sum up, only Lee Eun-hui is left among the 11 Korean women's singles participants, and Lee Eun-hui's promotion path is: 3-0 Wang Yiru (Chinese Taipei) in the first round of the women's singles main event, 3-0 Uezawa Xingyin (Japan) in the second round, 3-0 Gol Lampard (India) in the 1/8 finals, 3-1 Saji Shibata (Japan) in the 1/4 finals, and 3-1 Saki Yokoi in the semifinals, Lee Eun-hui won 5 consecutive games to enter the women's singles final.
Next, let's take a look at the situation of the Japanese team, a total of 6 players in the Japanese table tennis women's singles participated in this tournament, of which 5 players had to start from the qualifying round, but only one 15-year-old player, ranked 348th in the world, did not pass the qualifying test.
The remaining 4 players Uezawa Akane, Shibata Saji, Yokoi Sakura, and Oto Satsuki all qualified, plus Asuka Sasao, who directly advanced to the main event, so far a total of 5 people have advanced to the women's singles main event.
In the first round of the women's singles main event, all five of the above-mentioned Japanese table tennis women's singles won, and in the second round of the women's singles, which is the 1/16 finals, the 17-year-old Akan Uezawa, ranked 594th in the world, suffered a defeat and lost 0-3 to South Korea's Lee Eun-hye.
In the women's singles 1/8 finals, Asuka Sasao lost in the civil war and lost 0-3 to teammate Yokoi Sakura, in the women's singles 1/4 finals, Shibata Saki was out, 1-3 Lee Eun-hui, and in the women's singles semifinals, Yokoi Saki suffered a defeat and lost to South Korea's Lee Eun Hye with a score of 1-3.
So far, the Japanese table tennis women's singles only Oto Satsuki has not lost a black game, you must know that the 19-year-old Oto Satsuki, because he rarely participates in international competitions, there is currently no world ranking, and he has won 3 consecutive matches in the qualifying round to advance to the women's singles main event.
Women's Singles main draw progression: 3-0 in the first round (World No. 75, Hungary), 3-0 Zheng Xianxian (World No. 135, Chinese Taipei) in the second round, Li Haoqing 3-1 (World No. 78, Hong Kong, China) in the 1/8 finals, Zeng Jian 3-1 (World No. 59, Singapore) in the quarter-finals, and Diaconu 3-0 (World No. 48, Romania) in the semi-finals.
The 19-year-old Satsuki Oto has won 8 games in a row, starting from the 1/8 finals, and has eliminated 3 top ten seeds in women's singles, namely the women's singles No. 6 seed Li Haoqing, No. 8 seed Zeng Jian, and No. 5 seed Diaconu.
In addition to the top seed Jin Naying, No. 3 seed Li Shiwen, No. 5 seed Diaconu, No. 6 seed Li Haoqing, No. 8 seed Zeng Jian and No. 10 seed Liang Xiayin are out, the remaining four top ten seeds in women's singles also lost, the specific results are: No. 2 seed Luxembourg Chinese veteran Ni Xialian, women's singles first round lost 2-3 to Arab Vic (Croatia);
No. 4 seed Du Kaiqin, lost to teammate Li Haoqing 2-3 in the women's singles 1/16 finals, No. 7 seed Li Yuzhen, women's singles 1/16 finals 2-3 Yokoi Sakura (Japan), No. 9 seed Kukulova, 1/8 finals 1-3 Diaconu (Romania), so far the top 10 seeds in women's singles have all lost out.
To sum up, it is not difficult to see that the women's singles field of the Wallaždin Regional Tournament of this station has indeed caused a super upset! The final women's singles final will be a showdown between South Korea and Japan, whether the 28-year-old South Korean player Lee Eun-hye, ranked 63rd in the world, will win the championship, or the 19-year-old Japanese rising star Sazuki Oto, who has no world ranking, we will wait and see!
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