On April 19, Beijing time, in the 1/4 finals of the women's singles of the ITTF Macao World Cup, a China-Japan battle that fans had been waiting for was staged as scheduled. Wang Manyu faced Japan's first sister Hina Hayata, and as a result, Wang Manyu defeated her opponent 4-1 and successfully advanced to the women's singles semifinals.
In the first game, Hina Hayada launched very quickly, and Wang Manyu also used high-quality counterattacks to wrestle with the opponent. is different from Sun Yingsha's sharp first three board attacks, Hina Hayada and Wang Manyu prefer to play each other, and multi-board attacks are constantly staged. 11-8 Wang Manyu took the lead in winning the first game, Liu Guozheng mentioned in the commentary that Wang Manyu used tactics in place, mainly to suppress Hina Hayata's middle position. As a horizontal board play, the middle position is the most difficult to exert force. In the holding session, Wang Manyu also won more solidly.
In the second game, Hina Hayada changed her strategy and took advantage of her left-handed shooting to take the lead in tearing Wang Manyu's forehand at a large angle. For Hina Hayata's tactic, Wang Manyu also made sufficient preparations in advance. Hina Hayata's main scoring means is that the techniques of backhand tearing, twisting, and reverse pulling are relatively strong. After Wang Manyu blocked her backhand big slash, Hina Hayada was in a backward position. 11-7 Wang Manyu scored another game, leading Hina Hayada 2-0.
In the third game, Hina Hayada increased her forehand attack in an attempt to tear through Wang Manyu's defense. blindly transferred from a large angle, but it made the first sister of Japan take a greater risk to make mistakes. Wang Manyu himself is tall and has long arms, a large area of the platform, and a strong anti-pull ability in the middle and far platforms, which is Sun Yingsha's forehand, and it is not easy to penetrate Wang Manyu with one board. In the middle game, Wang Manyu led 5-4. After that, Hina Hayada insisted on fighting frantically near the stage, and successfully pulled back a game 11-8, and the two sides played 2-1.
In the fourth game, both sides had already found their form, and Wang Manyu still insisted on suppressing the middle strategy and won 11-6. In the fifth game, Hina Hayada led 6-2 at the beginning, and Hina Hayata's defensive ability was really good. Wang Manyu continued to attack with forehands, but she blocked them back, and then connected the counterattack very quickly. In the middle game, Wang Manyu continued to counterattack, and then added a side ball, and the score chased to a 6-6 draw. In the end, 11-8 Wang Manyu won the fifth game, thus defeating the opponent with a big score of 4-1 and successfully advanced.
Hina Hayada has qualified for the singles of the Paris Olympics, judging from the main forces of the national table tennis women, Wang Yidi has lost to Hina Hayada for 2 consecutive times, Chen Meng also lost to the first sister of Japan at the World Championships in Busan, and Sa Sha and Wang Manyu against Hina Hayada are the most likely to win and the most certain. Next, Wang Manyu will face the Japanese teenager Miwa Zhangmoto, and the national table tennis has introduced new deduction rules in Macau, hoping that Wang Manyu can withstand the pressure and not lose the foreign war. Otherwise, if 3,000 points are deducted, the Paris singles battle between Wang Manyu and Chen Meng will be revealed in advance.