On April 19, Beijing time, the ITTF Singles World Cup entered the fifth day of competition, and the singles quarterfinals have been released (see the chart below for details)! The national table tennis men's singles occupy 4 seats, the women's singles occupy 3 seats, the Japanese table tennis men's singles occupy 2 seats, and the women's singles occupy 3 seats, and the performance is very strong; the South Korean team is miserable, and only one of the 8 participants in the men's singles advances to the quarterfinals.
First of all, let's look at the national table tennis team, a total of 12 players were invited to participate, in addition to the top ten main players, Lin Shidong and Kuo Man won the qualification for the singles World Cup by virtue of the World Youth Championships U19 singles championship.
As a result, Kuo Man stopped in the group stage, although he did not lose, and his record was the same as that of the Korean Chinese player Tian Zhixi, but comparing the records of the two, Kuo Man lost to Tian Zhixi by 3 points 33-36, and won the second place in the group and went out.
Coming to the knockout round, the first round is the 1/8 finals, 4 national table tennis players lost out, of which Chen Xingtong and Lin Shidong lost in the civil war, the former lost to Sun Yingsha 1-4, the latter lost to Fan Zhendong 3-4, and only lost 2 points in the deciding game 13-15.
Wang Yidi and Liang Jingkun lost the foreign war, the former lost 1-4 to Japanese player Zhang Ben Miwa, as a result, Wang Yidi lost to Hina Hayata, Miyu Hirano, Miyu Kihara, Zhang Benmei and 4 Japanese players within a year, such a performance is really unacceptable to the Chinese people, I hope Dadi can regain his strength.
Liang lost 4-3 to Sweden's Carlberg, who looked unmotivated to win and did not bring the momentum of the Singapore Grand Slam and Incheon Championships in March to the singles World Cup. Da Fat lost like this, which can be said to have basically ruined his hope of entering Paris.
So far, the national table tennis men's team Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Lin Gaoyuan, and the women's team Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng, a total of 7 people have advanced to the singles quarterfinals!
Next, look at the situation of the two teams of South Korea and Japan, the South Korean team looks very miserable, 8 people were invited to participate in the competition, only Zhang Yuzhen advanced to the quarterfinals, including Lin Zhongxun, Lee Sang-so, Ahn Jae-hyun, Kim Na-young 4 people lost in the group stage.
Entering the first round of the knockout round, Shin Yubin lost to Hina Hayada 3-4, and only lost 2 points in the deciding game 11-13, which is indeed a pity; Tian Zhixi lost to Miyu Hirano 3-4; Zhu Qianxi lost to Chinese Taipei star Zheng Yijing 1-4, so the Korean women's singles were wiped out.
The performance of the Japanese team is still very good, 7 people were invited to participate in the competition, and only 2 people have lost so far, namely Misei Ito and Teruko Matsushima, who also failed to pass the test of the group stage.
Among them, Ito Misei was the most regrettable, the two games in the group stage were 2-2, drawing with Thailand's Sutasini and American player Wang Amy, but lost to Sutasini 37-40 and was out of the tournament by 3 points.
The remaining 5 players of the Japanese team, Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Hayasuke Togami, Hina Hayata, Miu Hirano, and Miwa Zhangmoto have all entered the top 8 singles, you must know that these 5 players have been selected into the Paris Olympic squad, and the strong performance of the Japanese team in the middle of the Olympic year has sounded the alarm for the national table tennis team to a certain extent.
On April 19th, the singles semifinals officially started (the detailed match is shown in the chart below), and the first was a men's singles 1/4 final, Japan's Tomokazu Zhangmoto played against Sweden's Carlberg, although it was a contest between players from foreign associations, but it also attracted the attention of many fans.
The pair have met seven times on the international stage, with Carlberg holding a slight advantage with 4 wins and 3 losses. Tomokazu is currently ranked 9th in the world and Carlberg is ranked 13th in the world, so let's take the details of the matchup.
In the first game, Carlberg took the lead 3-0, Zhang Benzhihe chased 2 points in a row, and then Carlberg scored 3 points in a row, 6-2 to pull the score apart, Zhang Benzhihe chased to 4-6, Carlberg scored 3 points again in a row, 9-4 to take the lead. After that, Zhang Benzhihe chased 5 points in a row, and the score came to a 9-9 draw, but Carlberg still withstood the pressure and scored 2 points in a row to take the lead 11-9.
In the second game, the scores of the two sides were very tight, from a 1-1 draw to a 4-4 draw, and then Zhang Benzhihe scored 2 points in a row, Carlberg got 1 point, Zhang Benzhihe scored 4 points in a row, and got 5 game points in the second game 10-5, after Carlberg saved 2 game points, Zhang Benzhihe still won the second game 11-7, chasing the big score to a 1-1 draw.
In the third game, the score of the two was still very tight, from a 1-1 draw to a 6-6 draw, and then Zhang Benzhihe scored 3 points in a row, 9-6 to take the lead, Carlberg chased 2 points in a row, and Zhang Benzhihe asked for a timeout.
After the pause, Carlberg scored 3 points in a row and won the third game with an 11-9 reversal, and Tomokazu Zhang suddenly dropped the line when he was leading 9-6, and lost 5 points in a row to be reversed by the opponent to win, which really hurt morale.
In the fourth game, Zhang Benzhihe took the lead 3-0, Carlberg scored 1 point, Zhang Benzhihe scored 4 points in a row, 7-1 to open the score, at the end of the game, Zhang Benzhihe 9-2 lead, and then Carlberg chased 6 points in a row, and the score came to 8-9.
After that, Tomokazu Zhang scored 1 point, 10-8 to get 2 game points in the fourth game, Carlberg saved 1 game point, and at the critical moment, Tomokazu Zhang withstood the pressure and won the fourth game 11-9 thrillingly, chasing the big score to a 2-2 draw.
In the fifth game, Zhang Benzhihe took the lead 2-0, Carlberg chased it to a 2-2 draw, and then Zhang Benzhihe scored 3 points in a row, Carlberg was not to be outdone, and chased 3 points in a row The score came to a 5-5 draw.
After the two fought to a 6-6 draw, at the end of the game, Zhang Benzhihe got 3 game points in the fifth game 10-7, Carlberg saved 2 game points, and the score came to 9-10 at the critical moment, Zhang Benzhihe once again withstood the pressure and won the key fifth game 11-9, and the big score was 3-2 to overtake the opponent.
In the sixth game, Zhang Benzhihe took the lead 3-1, Carlberg asked for a timeout, and when the timeout came back, Zhang Benzhihe was unstoppable, and scored 3 points in a row to pull the score away 6-1, and Zhang Benzhihe completely suppressed Carlberg in momentum. As a result, Tomokazu Zhang won the sixth game 11-4, defeated Carlberg 4-2, and advanced to the men's singles semifinals.
Next, Zhang Benzhihe will play against Fan Zhendong and Lin Gaoyuan, no matter which national table tennis player plays against Zhang Benzhihe, it is very worthy of fans' expectations!