On April 19, the semifinals of the 2024 Macau Women's World Cup were produced! Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, and Wang Manyu of national table tennis entered the semifinals, and the other semi-final seat belonged to Miwa Zhang of Japan. In the semifinals, Sun Yingsha played against Chen Meng, and Wang Manyu played against Zhang Benmeihe.
The first match was a showdown in the 3/4 zone, and this match was also the only match in the four quarterfinals without a national table tennis player, with the third member of the Japanese Paris Olympic women's team Zhang Benmei, who eliminated Wang Yidi, and Puerto Rico's Diaz. In this game, Zhang Benmeihe continued her excellent form, 11-3, 11-7, 11-2, 8-11, 11-8, and defeated Diaz 4-1 to advance to the semifinals.
The Zone 2/4 showdown was between defending champion Chen Meng and Japan's Miu Hirano, and it was a win-in-one match for Chen Meng. Facing Miu Hirano, who had already qualified for the Paris Olympics singles, Chen Meng, who was still fighting for a singles ticket to Paris, played actively, winning four games in a row 11-5, 11-8, 11-9, 11-6, defeating her opponent with a big score of 4-0 and advancing to the semifinals. At present, in the singles standings of the national table tennis Paris Olympics, Chen Meng is behind Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, and she can only qualify for the singles of the Paris Olympics by playing as many games as possible in the Macau World Cup and the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam in May. After the game, Chen Meng bluntly said that he hadn't won the championship for a long time, and this time he might have a bit of an extravagant hope to win the championship, and he might face Sasha in the semifinals.
In another "can't afford to lose" match, Wang Manyu, who is in the 4/4 zone, faces Japan's Hina Hayata. Hina Hayada has also won the singles ticket to the Paris Olympics, and is currently the first sister of the Japanese women's table tennis, Wang Manyu, who has been in good form recently, defeated her opponent 11-8, 11-7, 8-11, 11-6, 11-8, and advanced to the semifinals. After the game, Wang Manyu bluntly said that although the score was 4-1, the winner was decided at the end of each game, and he did not have much advantage, that is, he picked points, and every point was entangled and bitten. In the semifinals, Wang Manyu will face another Japanese player, Miwa Zhangmoto, Wang Manyu said that she has not played much against Miwa Zhang, and she has been very strong recently. Look at her with a fresh attitude, be fully prepared for difficulties, and be yourself.
In the last quarter-finals, the top seed and world No. 1 Sun Yingsha defeated Chinese Taipei's Zheng Yijing 4-2 after six rounds of battles and advanced to the semifinals with a score of 11-5, 11-2, 9-11, 11-7, 10-12, 11-5. In the next round, she will face defending champion Chen Meng for a spot in the final. In the last 2020 Weihai Women's World Cup, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng met in the final, when Chen Meng defeated Sun Yingsha 4-1 and won her first singles World Cup championship. Now, the two will meet again in the World Cup, and who will take the victory this time?