On April 20, the semifinals of the 2024 Macau Women's World Cup ended, Wang Manyu defeated Zhang Benmeihe 4-2, Sun Yingsha defeated Chen Meng 4-2, the two will meet in the final, and the national table tennis will win the championship and runner-up of this World Cup, which also means that a new Women's World Cup champion will be produced.
A total of 6 people participated in the women's World Cup national table tennis, and Kuo Man, who qualified as the women's singles champion of the U19 group of the World Youth Championships, stopped in the group stage, Chen Xingtong lost to Sun Yingsha 1-4, and Wang Yidi lost to Japan's Miwa Zhang 1-4, and the two stopped in the first round of the knockout round. Women's singles world No. 1 Sun Yingsha, defending champion Chen Meng, Wang Manyu advanced to the quarterfinals, and in the quarterfinals, the three defeated Chinese Taipei's Zheng Yijing 4-2, Japan's Miu Hirano 4-0, and Japan's Hina Hayada 4-1 to enter the semifinals. In the semifinals, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng started a civil war, and Wang Manyu fought against Japan's Zhang Benmeihe. Fifteen-year-old Zhang Benmei defeated Puerto Rico's Diaz 4-1 to advance to the semi-finals and become the youngest ever semi-finalist in the Women's World Cup. It is worth mentioning that Miwa Zhangmoto's brother Tomokazu Zhangmoto also reached the semifinals of the men's World Cup, and the two became the first brother and sister to win medals in the World Cup singles competition at the same time.
The first semi-final was between Wang Manyu and Zhang Benmeihe. Wang Manyu and Zhang are both participating in the singles World Cup for the first time, and Wang Manyu, who has already won the women's singles championship at the World Championships, is eager to win another singles World Cup title and strive to get a singles ticket to the Paris Olympics. In this matchup, Wang Manyu, who has higher overall strength, won 11-9, 11-6 took the lead in winning two games; in the third game, Zhang Benmeihe quickly took a 9-3 lead and recovered a game with 11-6; in the fourth game, Wang Manyu won 11-6; in the fifth game, Wang Manyu began to chase points when he was 4-9 behind, and once chased the score to 9-10, Zhang Benmeihe still won another game with 11-9; in the sixth game, the scores of the two sides have been tight, Wang Manyu grasped the key points to win this game 13-11, and defeated Zhang Benmeihe with a big score of 4-2 and advanced to the finals.
After the game, Wang Manyu said that when he reached the sixth game, he encountered a lot of difficulties, and he was already very uncomfortable, and told himself that this was the Olympics to see if he could withstand it. In the end, I won that point, I was blank, and my emotions were very complicated, and I felt more stressed along the way.
The second semi-final was a national table tennis civil war. Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng are both participating in the singles World Cup for the second time, and in the last 2020 Weihai Women's World Cup, the two met in the final, and finally Chen Meng defeated Sun Yingsha 4-1 and won his first singles world championship. In the first game, the score of the two has been tight, Chen Meng grasped the key points, 13-11 to take the next city; in the second game, the score of the two sides was deadlocked again to 10-10 draw, Sun Yingsha scored 2 points in a row, and won the game 12-10; in the third game, Sun Yingsha won 11-6; in the fourth game, Chen Meng scored 9 points in a row, won another game 11-1, and the big score was 2-2 draw. In the crucial fifth game, Chen Meng scored 3 points in a row after 6-6 and pulled the score away at 9-6, and then Sun Yingsha scored 3 points in a row to chase the score to a 9-9 draw, and then the scores of the two sides fell into a stalemate again, and Sun Yingsha won this key game 14-12. In the sixth game, Chen Meng led 5-1 at the beginning, Sun Yingsha opened the scoring mode, overtook the score 10-9, got the match point, seized the opportunity of the first match point, won the sixth game 11-9, defeated Chen Meng 4-2, advanced to the finals, and will compete with Wang Manyu for the championship.