On April 18, Beijing time, the 2024 Table Tennis World Cup kicked off the 1/8 finals, and the morning game has all ended. Between the famous players of the foreign association, a key battle was launched between Miyu Hirano and Tian Zhixi, in the case of losing two games 0-2 behind, Miyu Hirano finally defeated Tian Zhixi 4-3 to advance to the top 8 of women's singles, and Miyu Hirano faced the defending champion Chen Meng in the next round!
Miu Hirano became famous at a young age, as early as 2016, she won the World Cup women's singles championship, when she was only 16 years old, Miu Hirano won all the way to a strong opponent, becoming the youngest World Cup women's singles champion in history, among the world table tennis women's singles world champions, creating history! In addition, in the domestic competition in Japan, Miu Hirano also broke the historical record and became the youngest national champion in the history of Japanese table tennis. In the 2017 Table Tennis Asian Championships, Miyu Hirano won the championship by defeating Ding Ning, Zhu Yuling, and Chen Meng, the three main forces of national table tennis at that time, becoming the youngest women's singles champion in the history of the Asian Championships. After being targeted by the national table tennis research, Miu Hirano's performance declined and she missed the women's singles at the Tokyo Olympics. However, during the Paris Olympic cycle, Miu Hirano has re-emerged and has secured a place in the women's singles at the Paris Olympics.
In this year's Table Tennis World Cup, Miyu Hirano participated as a seeded player, in the 14th group of women's singles, Miu Hirano defeated Qiao Celin and Yuan Jiannan to win the first place in the group with a record of 2 consecutive wins, including the first round of the group stage against Joceline, Miu Hirano hit two games in a row 11-0 to create a tragedy, and the performance was very strong! After entering the second stage of the knockout round, Miyu Hirano's first opponent is the Korean Chinese star Tian Zhixi, Tian Zhixi has been in good form recently, at the end of last month's Incheon Championship, Tian Zhixi defeated Misei Ito in an upset, and won the first victory over Misei Ito in his career after 7 consecutive defeats, but lost to Wang Manyu, the main force of national table tennis who finally won the runner-up in the subsequent 1/4 finals, and now at this time, Tian Zhixi has the ability to create a threat to Miyu Hirano.
After the start of the match, Tian Zhixi really played well, easily won the first game 11-3, and then withstood the pressure in the second game to win 12-10, and led the world champion Miu Hirano 2-0 with a total score of 2-0 after the first two games. The competition in the third game was still fierce, and Miu Hirano responded 12-10 and successfully recovered a game. In the next fourth and fifth games, Miu Hirano won again with two 11-8, and the total score was 3-2. In the sixth game with no way out, Tian Zhixi started again, and after adjusting his condition, he won 11-4, and the total score came to a 3-3 draw. In the deciding game, the situation reversed again, Miyu Hirano reversed the decline, won 11-6, and finally played seven games with a total score of 4-3 to defeat Tian Zhixi to advance to the top 8 of women's singles. In the next round, Miu Hirano and Chen Meng competed for a place in the top 4, and Chen Meng swept Sutasini 4-0 in this round.
In the morning game of the 1/8 finals, the national table tennis suffered 2 major upsets in a row, Wang Yidi lost to Zhang Benmeihe 1-4 in the women's singles 1/8 finals, and Liang Jingkun lost to Carlberg 3-4 in the men's singles 1/8 finals, but in the men's singles 4/4 area, Lin Gaoyuan withstood the pressure and defeated the European champion Joczyk 4-2, locking the top 4 seats in this division for the national table tennis in advance.