1-3! Another upset in the World Cup: the men's singles seed lost 0-11, and the national table tennis Wang Yidi advanced thrillingly
On April 17, Beijing time, the 2024 Macau ITTF Men's and Women's World Cup entered the third match day, and in the last match of the third group of women's singles, Wang Yidi led 2-0 and was forced to draw by German player Shan Xiaona, but still won the first place in the group with 1 win and 1 draw, and took the lead in advancing to the top 16 of women's singles. In the men's singles field, the seeded player Qiu Dang was upset, and he lost 0-11 in the fourth game, which was particularly embarrassing.
The third match day is also the last match day of the first stage, the first game of national table tennis is Wang Yidi, her opponent is Shan Xiaona, Wang Yidi won the first two games 11-7, 11-4, but after two games made more mistakes, lost the third and fourth games with two 9-11, and was forced to draw by Shan Xiaona, but it was indeed an upset in this game. However, Wang Yidi won 1 and drew 1, with a small score of 81-57, beating Du Kaiqin and advancing to the knockout round as the leader of the third group.
Although Wang Yidi was promoted, but both games were lost, and was forced to draw by Shan Xiaona, from the perspective of competing for the Olympic team seats, Wang Yidi's situation is unfavorable, after missing the Olympic women's singles, Wang Yidi is likely to withdraw from the Olympic team quota battle early. At the same time, Du Kaiqin and Shan Xiaona in the same group ranked second and third respectively, ending the journey of this World Cup.
In addition, in the 9th group of women's singles, Zheng Yijing swept Linda Bergstrom 4-0, won all two games in a row, won eight games in a row, won the first place in the group, and advanced to the knockout round.
In the men's singles field, the first seeded player to be eliminated is Qiu Dang in the 11th group, due to the first round was forced to draw by Saleh, Qiu Dang wanted to win Hayasuke Togami with all his might, but in the first three games, Qiu Dang fell behind 1-2 and missed the knockout round in advance, he directly put it in the fourth game, and lost 0-11 in a single game, embarrassed out, which is not a big upset. Hayasuke Togami defeated Qiu Dang 3-1 and broke through from the 11th group of men's singles to the knockout round.
In the men's singles group 14, seeded Anton Carlberg came from behind, and he came from behind to win two games in a row from 0-2 down to draw 2-2 with South Korea's Lim Jong-hoon. Anton Carlberg won 1 win and 1 draw in two games, won 6 games and lost 2 games, while Lim Jong-hoon also won 1 win and 1 draw, but he won 5 games and lost 3 games, Anton Carlberg beat Lim Jong-hoon and won the top spot in the 14th group and advanced to the knockout round, and Lim Jong-hoon regretfully went out.
So far, players who have advanced to the knockout round include Anton Carlberg and Hayasuke Togami in Men's Singles, and Wang Yidi and Zheng Yijing in Women's Singles.