On April 18, 2024, the Table Tennis World Cup continued, and there was new good news from the national table tennis women's singles, the second seed advanced to the quarterfinals, Wang Manyu reversed Romanian star Szokos 4-1, won the foreign war and continued to advance, Wang Manyu sat and waited for Japanese player Hina Hayada to fight.
Wang Manyu is ranked No. 2 in the world, once won the World Table Tennis Championships singles championship, the opponent is the 8th Romanian player Szokos, although they are all ranked in the top ten masters, but there is still a significant gap in the competitive level, Szokos is definitely a first-class level in the foreign association, and being able to defeat Chen Meng twice shows that the strength is very strong, so Wang Manyu is not easy to fight in this foreign war, and he has not fought much before.
After the start of the game, Wang Manyu's lead in the first game was reversed, Szokos fell behind and chased to 9 draws, the key points Szokos held on very steadily, taking the lead 11-9, it is certain that Szokos is the opponent that needs to be vigilant in this cycle of national table tennis, and the threat is on par with Hina Hayada and others, Wang Manyu's performance has been quite good, but he still failed to completely prevent Szokos.
In the second game, Wang Manyu was obviously more adapted to Szokos's rhythm, giving full play to the advantages of his backhand, and playing a lot of high-quality attacks, but whenever Wang Manyu found the feeling, Szokos couldn't stop it at all, Wang Manyu led 8-4, Szokos chased the score in vain, Wang Manyu pulled back a game with 11-7, both sides had service changes in it, and Szokos made more unnecessary mistakes.
In the third game, Szokos still received the serve to find opportunities, after the first two rounds of the competition, Wang Manyu basically adapted, will not leave any space for the opponent, always go to change the line first, and soon won another game 11-7, Wang Manyu's skills and tactics are particularly comprehensive, the ability to adjust on the spot is too strong, and players with various playing styles can always find effective coping strategies, which is also something that most people can't do.
In the fourth game, Szokos led 8-5, and then 10-8 first to the game point, as a result, Wang Manyu scored 4 points in a row, reversed 12-10, Wang Manyu scored key points to make Szokos's mentality problematic, although Szokos's serve is very threatening, but in general there are still shortcomings, and her on-the-spot performance is not particularly stable, easy to suddenly drop the line, affected by emotions, resulting in more unnecessary mistakes.
In the fifth game, Wang Manyu played steadily, although he came up and lost 3 points in a row, but he was never affected, and he played very firmly, so that Szokos felt that he had no way to start, and there was no good opportunity to break through, and at the end of the game once came to 7 draws, Wang Manyu scored 4 points in a row, ending the game with 11-7, and finally reversed Szokos 4-1, and then played against Hina Hayada and Shin Yubin winners, and played Hina Hayada without accident.