On April 18, the women's singles knockout round of the 2024 Table Tennis Macau World Cup was in full swing. In a focus match that just ended, Wang Manyu played against the European star Szokos, and Wang Manyu played well, defeating Szokos 4-1 and successfully advancing to the quarterfinals, at present, the top 8 women's singles have 5 seats, 2 national table tennis players have advanced, 1 person is out, Japan accounts for 2 seats, and the Chinese provincial team has a seat!
Wang Manyu started the game relatively quickly, starting 5-1, but at the end of the game, the leading Wang Manyu made more unnecessary mistakes, and at the same time, Szokos strengthened the quality of the backhand board, scored 5 points in a row after falling behind 6-9, and won the first game 11-9
In the second game, Wang Manyu started 5-1 again, and Szokos also made unnecessary mistakes, falling behind 3-9 to the key point. Although Szokos continued to chase points in this game, Wang Manyu did not make the mistake of the first game again, grasped the key points, and pulled back a game 11-7
In the third game, both of them were in good shape, so the score was relatively tight at the beginning, and the score difference hovered between 1-2. In the middle game, Wang Manyu led by three points 9-6 and went to the next game 11-7.
In the fourth game, Szokos strengthened the spin of the ball, and after 3-3, Szokos took the lead in the middle game for the first time, Wang Manyu fell behind 5-8, and Szokos won the fourth game with 4 points scored 12-10 by Wang Manyu in the case of 10-8 game points.
In the fifth game, Szokos, who was behind by a large score, turned on the fighting mode, a lot of unreasonable balls, fighting also meant more mistakes, 4-5 behind, Szokos had to pause and slow down, but the pause did not help, Wang Manyu got the match point 10-7, and finally won the fifth game 11-7.
In this way, Wang Manyu won four games in a row after losing one game first, defeated the European star Szokos with a big score of 4-1, and advanced to the quarterfinals. The next round awaits the winner between Hina Hayada and Shin Yubin.
In the game that ended in the national table tennis earlier, Wang Yidi lost to Zhang Benmei 1-4 and was eliminated, and Chen Meng 4-0 Sutasini. In this way, the three golden flowers of national table tennis are out, and two advance to the quarterfinals.
Wang Manyu's opponent in the next round is very likely to be Hina Hayata, and Chen Meng's opponent in the next round is Miyu Hirano, and the two will be fighting against Japan.