On April 20th, Beijing time, the ITTF Singles World Cup entered the penultimate day of competition, and on this day there will be a semi-final competition between men's and women's singles.
The players who entered the semi-finals of men's and women's singles were occupied by players from China and Japan, with the national table tennis men's and women's singles each occupying 3 seats, and the remaining one seat was won by the Japanese team. Therefore, among the four semi-final battles on April 20, two of them are national table tennis civil wars, and the remaining two are Sino-Japanese wars, and the competition process will be very exciting!
On the day of April 20th, the first to be played is a women's singles semi-final, which is also a national table tennis foreign war, Wang Manyu against Japanese player Miwa Zhangmoto, this game will be highly concerned by many fans!
In this singles World Cup, Wang Manyu's path to promotion is still very strong, and he has only lost two games in the past four games. In the group stage, Wang Manyu 4-0 Diaconu in the first round, Batra 3-1 Diaconu in the second round, and Wang Manyu 4-0 Batra in the third round.
In the second stage of the knockout round, the first round is the women's singles 1/8 finals, Wang Manyu reversed the Romanian beauty Szokos 4-1, and in the women's singles 1/4 finals, Wang Manyu eliminated the Japanese table tennis women's team "first sister" Hina Hayada 4-1 and advanced to the women's singles semifinals.
Zhang Benmei and his group, Zhang Benmei and Zhang Mo 3-1 in the first round, Zhang Mo 3-1 Jin Naying in the second round, Zhang Benmei and 4-0 Jin Naying in the third round, Zhang Benmei and 2 wins won the first place in the group.
In the first round of the knockout round, Zhang Benmeihe defeated Wang Yidi 4-1, which was still a bit unexpected, and in the women's singles 1/4 finals, Zhang Benmeihe eliminated Puerto Rico's Adriana Diaz 4-1 and advanced to the women's singles semifinals.
Zhang Benmeihe, who is only 15 years old, has such an outstanding performance in such an important competition, which is indeed worthy of the attention of the national table tennis coaching staff, after all, in the national table tennis team, it is very difficult for players of the same age to enter the national first team, let alone stand out in international competitions, so Zhang Benmeihe is undoubtedly the main rival of the national table tennis women's team for a long time in the future.
Looking forward to this game, Wang Manyu, who ranks second in the women's singles world, has a certain advantage over Zhang Benmeihe in terms of overall strength and competition experience, and Wang Manyu's recent state is very hot, and the probability of defeating Zhang Benmeihe is very high, but Wang Manyu must also be prepared for difficulties, and the following brings the details of this game.
In the first game, Wang Manyu took the lead 2-0, Zhang Benmei and chased 2 points in a row, and then Wang Manyu scored 4 points in a row, at the end of the game, Zhang Benmei and chased the score to 8-9, Wang Manyu got 1 point, and got 2 game points in the first game with 10-8, Zhang Benmei and saved 1 game point, the score came to 9-10, at the critical moment, Wang Manyu withstood the pressure and won decisively, 11-9 took the lead.
In the second game, the two sides fought from a 1-1 draw to a 3-3 draw, and then Wang Manyu scored 3 points in a row, Zhang Benzhihe chased to 4-6, Wang Manyu scored 3 points in a row, 9-4 The score was opened, Zhang Benmei and chased 2 points in a row, Wang Manyu scored 2 points in a row, and then went to the next city with 11-6, and the big score was 2-0 to take the lead.
Throughout the first two games, Wang Manyu has a certain advantage in overall strength, firmly occupying the initiative of the game, and the young Zhang Benmei and the strong Wang Manyu are still a little immature.
In the third game, Wang Manyu took the lead 2-0, and then Zhang Benmei and scored 8 points in a row, at the end of the game, Zhang Benmei and 10-4 got 6 game point opportunities, Wang Manyu saved 2 game points, Zhang Benmei and still won the third game 11-6, chasing the big score to 1-2.
Zhang Benmeihe strengthened the quality of the first three boards in this game, and Wang Manyu did not bite the score in the opening stage, and it was difficult to chase it after that.
In the fourth game, Zhang Benmei took the lead 3-0, and then Wang Manyu scored 5 points in a row to overtake the score, Zhang Benmei and chased it to 4-5, and then Wang Manyu scored 3 points in a row, 8-4 to pull the score away. At the end of the game, Wang Manyu got 5 game point opportunities at 10-5, and after Zhang Benmei and saved 1 game point, Wang Manyu won the fourth game 11-6, taking the lead with a big score of 3-1 and forcing the opponent to the edge of the cliff.
In the fifth game, Zhang Benmei and 3-1 took the lead, after Wang Manyu got 1 point, Zhang Benmei and let go, scored in the middle of the game, 8-3 to pull the score away, and then Wang Manyu couldn't catch up with the score, at the end of the game, Zhang Benmeihe got 4 game point opportunities with 10-6, after Wang Manyu saved 1 game point, Zhang Benmeihe's coach was also her father who asked for a timeout.
After the pause, Wang Manyu saved 2 game points again, and the score came to 9-10, after which Zhang Benmeihe still seized the opportunity and won the fourth game 1-9, chasing the big score to 2-4.
In the sixth game, the score of the two sides was very tight, from a 1-1 draw to a 5-5 draw, and then Zhang Benmei and scored 2 points in a row, and Wang Manyu chased the score to 8-8 in the middle and late stages, and then Wang Manyu saved 2 game points in the case of 9-10 and 10-11 behind, and won the sixth game 13-11 at the critical moment, defeated Zhang Benmeihe with a big score of 4-2, and advanced to the women's singles final!
In this way, after Wang Manyu took the lead in advancing to the women's singles finals, she took the absolute lead in the competition for the women's singles quota with Chen Meng's national table tennis Paris Olympics, and Chen Meng's pressure was great!