On April 12, Beijing time, the women's singles semi-finals were all released, and China, Japan and South Korea players beat athletes from other countries to advance, including Liu Xinyin of Chinese Taipei against Japan's Satsuki Oto, and Zhu Chengzhu of Hong Kong, China facing South Korea's Lee Eun-hui in the lower half.
Liang Xiayin, the only world champion who signed up for the event, lost 2-3 to Germany's Manz after five rounds of hard fighting in the second round, and the top four seeds Kim Naying, Xu Xiaoyuan, Shan Xiaona, and Li Shiwen were all wiped out by the team.
All the national table tennis players in this feeder tournament gave up their registration, and naturally they had no chance to compete for the championship, but even so, the performance of Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong, China players was still remarkable, among which Liu Xinyin won a big victory in the quarterfinals, and swept the top seed and South Korean hope star Kim Na-young 3-0 to advance, and Zhu Chengzhu also swept South Korean player Lee Do-eun 3-0.
As a result, Satsuki Oto, who only won a WTT feeder women's singles championship in Croatia not long ago, once again exerted his might and beat teammate Shibata Saji and others to advance to the semifinals.
The South Korean team is the main force in this competition, and the top four seeds in the women's singles are all from them, but the performance is not ideal, among which the top seed Kim Na-young lost 0-3 to Liu Xin-yin, the second seed Xu Hyo-won lost to teammate Lee Do-eun 2-3, and the fourth seed Lee Shi-win also lost to teammate Kim Ha-young 1-3.
In the end, the menacing South Korean team only Lee Eun-hye advanced to the semi-finals in this event, and eliminated the German star and Olympic runner-up Shan Xiaona 3-1 in the 16-8 to continue to attack the championship.
According to the arrangement, Liu Xinyin will face Dato Shayue at 16:00 pm Beijing time on April 12, and Zhu Chengzhu will play Lee Eun-hye at around 16:35 to continue to attack the ticket for the final round - from the perspective of strength comparison, the level of these four athletes is roughly between the two, no matter who wins or loses, the semi-final battle may be very intense.
After the women's singles semi-finals, the final will also kick off at around 23:40 on April 12, and the championship is ready to be announced, waiting for the latest report to come back.