On April 20, Beijing time, the Table Tennis Singles World Cup entered the penultimate day of competition, on this day will be born men's and women's singles finals, 4 singles semi-finals are highly anticipated, the game is coming to an end, and the process is more exciting!
To sum up, it is not difficult to see that the players who entered the semi-finals were occupied by the players of the Chinese and Japanese teams! The national table tennis men's and women's singles each accounted for three seats, and the remaining one seat was won by the Japanese team.
The best result is Zhang Yuzhen of the Korean men's singles, who entered the top 8 of the men's singles, and in the men's singles semifinals, he was eliminated by Wang Chuqin with a score of 1-4, so the Korean team was wiped out.
So far, among the four semi-final battles on April 20, two are national table tennis civil wars, and two are Sino-Japanese wars.
At present, a women's singles semi-final competition has ended, Wang Manyu defeated Japan's Miwa Zhang Ben 4-2, and took the lead in advancing to the women's singles final! Since the other women's singles semi-final is a national table tennis civil war, the national table tennis team has won the women's singles championship of this singles World Cup in advance!
Wang Manyu did not lose the foreign war in this tournament, and in the group stage, with two 4-0 scores, swept Romania's Diaknu and India's "first sister" Batra;
Entering the knockout round, the three games that have ended, with a score of 4-1, eliminated the Romanian beauty Szokos and the Japanese table tennis "first sister" Hina Hayata, and the semifinals of this campaign defeated the Japanese table tennis 15-year-old girl Miwa Zhang with a score of 4-2, and advanced to the women's singles finals!
Next is the men's singles semifinals, which is also a national table tennis civil war, Wang Chuqin vs. Ma Long, judging from the overall strength of the current two, the younger Wang Chuqin should have a certain advantage. The duo's path to the singles World Cup is as follows:
First of all, in the group stage, Wang Chuqin 2-2 Ahn Jae-hyun in the first round, Ahn Jae-hyun 2-2 Glasmenko in the second round, and Wang Chuqin 4-0 Glasmenko in the third round.
Ma Long's group, Ma Long 4-0 Salin in the first round, Li Yuanzhang 4-0 Salin in the second round, and Ma Long 4-0 Li Yuanzhang in the third round, Ma Long won 2 games and did not lose a game to win the first place in the group.
Entering the knockout round, the first round is the men's singles 1/8 finals, Wang Chuqin reversed the Brazilian player Hugo 4-2, and Ma Long also defeated the French 17-year-old straight board star Felix Lebrun with a score of 4-2;
In the first game, Wang Chuqin took the lead 3-0, and the mid-section dragon team chased the score to 5-6, while Ma Long scored 3 points in a row after falling behind 6-7, 9-7 overtook the score, and after Wang Chuqin scored 1 point, Ma Long asked for a timeout.
The pause was called in the first game, which is enough to see that Ma Long attaches great importance to this game! After the pause, Wang Chuqin chased to a 9-9 draw, and at the critical moment, Ma Long scored 2 points in a row and took the lead 11-9!
In the second game, Ma Long took a 6-0 lead, in which Wang Chuqin made a service error, which is enough to show that there is a certain problem in the mentality. After that, the big head made adjustments, and after falling behind 2-7, he scored 7 points in a row, 9-7 overtook the score, and the Dragons were not to be outdone, chasing the score to a 9-9 draw.
After that, Wang Chuqin scored 1 point and got the second game point opportunity at 10-9, and the Dragons showed a big heart, scoring 3 points in a row to 12-10 and then taking the lead 2-0.
In the third game, Ma Long took the lead 4-0, and then Wang Chuqin has been in a state of chasing points, but the state of the Dragon team in this game is really good, and finally won the third game again 11-6, leading Wang Chuqin 3-0 with a big score, forcing the big head to the edge of the cliff.
In the fourth game, Wang Chuqin asked for a timeout after falling behind 2-5, and in the past three and a half games, Wang Chuqin was completely suppressed by the Dragons, and it was indeed not easy to reverse the situation. At the end of the game, Wang Chuqin chased the score to 8-9, and then Ma Long scored 1 point and got 2 match point opportunities at 10-8.
After Wang Chuqin saved 2 match points, the score came to 10-10 draw, and then Wang Chuqin saved 2 match points strongly, the score came to 12-12 draw, at the critical moment, the Dragon team still showed the strong strength of the "Grand Slam" players, won the fourth game 14-12, defeated Wang Chuqin 4-0, and took the lead in advancing to the men's singles final, congratulations to Ma Long!