On April 19, 2024, the women's singles semifinals of the Table Tennis World Cup were released, and the three national table tennis players passed the test, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, and Chen Meng continued to move forward, and the foreign association also had the Japanese team Zhang Benmeihe, Sun Yingsha defeated Chinese Taipei star Zheng Yijing 4-2, and Chen Meng will meet in the upper half.
Sun Yingsha is the runner-up of the last World Cup, when she lost to teammate Chen Meng in the final, she is the number one favorite to win the championship this year, and the women's singles world ranking is No. 1, Sun Yingsha has the World Table Tennis Championships singles championship, and is still short of the Olympics and the World Cup, and is expected to become the next Grand Slam player.
Chinese Taipei player Zheng Yijing has good strength, ranked 11th in the world, once won the runner-up in the event, when he lost to Japanese player Miyu Hirano, Zheng Yijing's style of play is very tough, with a strong ability to hold each other, the quality of the board is not bad, the style of play is decent, it is difficult to win the national table tennis more advanced players, Sun Yingsha occupies an absolute advantage, Zheng Yijing can only end here.
After the start of the game, Zheng Yijing played very actively in the first game, trying to mobilize Sun Yingsha's landing point, but her quality was much worse, there was no threat at all, Sun Yingsha's first three boards were too stable, so that Zheng Yijing felt that she couldn't start, Sun Yingsha took the lead with 11-5, in fact, even if Zheng Yijing was not a weak opponent, Sun Yingsha's level was too high, so it felt very easy for everyone.
In the second game, Sun Yingsha took advantage of the situation to pursue, Zheng Yijing has been retreating, completely unable to withstand this high quality, there is no way to take Sun Yingsha's attack, Sun Yingsha led 6-1, and then blasted out 11-2 to win another game, the third game is back and forth, Zheng Yijing is very determined, even if there are unnecessary mistakes, still strive to take the initiative to attack, Zheng Yijing led 10-8, and after using up the pause, she pulled back a game with 11-9.
In the fourth game, the two sides played a lot of high-quality holds, Zheng Yijing was particularly tenacious, but after all, the gap was there, Sun Yingsha took the lead in an all-round way, winning the game 11-7, Sun Yingsha missed the match point in the fifth game, Zheng Yijing narrowly won 12-10, and in the sixth game, Sun Yingsha played with momentum, and her calm mentality was not affected, ending the game 11-5, and finally defeated Zheng Yijing 4-2, Sun Yingsha advanced to the women's singles semifinals.
Now it is the national table tennis trio plus a Zhang Benmeihe, forming the World Cup women's singles semi-final lineup, the last champion and runner-up will meet, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng will start a decisive battle, victory or defeat is very important for both sides, Sun Yingsha hit the second step of the Grand Slam, Chen Meng strives for the singles qualification of the Paris Olympics, and the coaching staff will not set up off-court guidance, that is, they will strive for it by their own ability, and who will have the last laugh at that time, so stay tuned.