On April 17, the 2024 Macau Women's Table Tennis World Cup continued the group stage competition. Wang Yidi drew 2-2 with Germany's Shan Xiaona, and Chen Meng defeated India's Akula 3-1, and the two successfully advanced to the round of 16. After two consecutive days of fighting, Kuaiman drew 2-2 with South Korea's Tian Zhixi after losing two games first, but due to a small score disadvantage, he ranked second in the group and missed the second stage of the knockout round.
Wang Yidi took the lead, and in the third group of women, her opponent in this round was Germany's Shan Xiaona. In the first round, Wang Yidi defeated Hong Kong's To Hoi Kim 3-1, while Du Hoi Kim beat Shan Xiao Na 4-0. In this game, Wang Yidi won two games 11-7 and 11-4, but then Shan Xiaona chased two games in a row 11-9 and 11-9, and drew 2-2 with Wang Yidi. Wang Yidi advanced to the second stage of the round of 16 with a record of 1 win and 1 draw. This World Cup is a stop of the national table tennis women's team Paris Olympic Games selection points competition, and athletes who do not qualify for the group stage or lose foreign battles will be deducted corresponding points. After Wang Yidi broke into the top 16, she completed the task of qualifying from the group, and then she had to ensure that she did not lose the foreign war, otherwise she would have completely missed the Paris Olympics after she had missed the singles qualification.
Chen Meng, who is competing for a ticket to the women's singles at the Paris Olympics, will face India's monster Akula in this match. Akula defeated Wang Yidi in the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships, which was impressive, and Chen Meng and Akula won 4-0 against Poland's Natalia Bayo, and the two will face each other in this game to compete for a place in the group. Chen Meng defeated Akula 11-4, 11-4, 13-15, 11-2, 3-1, winning 7 games and losing 1 game in two games to advance to the round of 16.
After making his World Cup debut on the second matchday, he did not rest and played his second game the next day. After beating Australian veteran Hong Jianfang 4-0 in her last game, she will face South Korea's Tian Zhixi, who has been in great form recently. Tian Zhixi also defeated Hong Jianfang 4-0 in the first round. In this game, Tian Zhixi won two games in a row 11-4 and 11-6, and in the third game, Kuo Man withstood the pressure and won 12-10, and then won another game 11-4, drawing Tian Zhixi with a big score of 2-2. Kuo Man, who qualified as the women's singles champion of the U19 group of the World Youth Championships, ranked second in the group due to a score disadvantage, and missed the opportunity to advance to the round of 16, becoming the first player to be eliminated from the national table tennis World Cup in Macau.
In Group 8, Japan's Hina Hayada defeated Romania's Samara 4-0 and dropped one game in two games to advance to the round of 16, in Group 9, Chinese Taipei's Zheng Yijing defeated Sweden's Bergstrom 4-0 to advance to the knockout round without dropping a game, in Group 10, Japan's Zhang Benmei and South Korea's Kim Na-young defeated 4-0 to advance to the round of 16, and in Group 14, Miu Hirano defeated France's Yuan Jiannan 3-1 to advance to the knockout round.