On April 20, Beijing time, the 2024 ITTF Macau Men's and Women's Singles World Cup continued, and there was a rare situation in the semifinals: Zhang Ben's brother and sister were alone in national table tennis, and the four strong countries accounted for three seats each.
This is the first time that the World Cup has set up a group round-robin, the format is "four rounds", although there will be a 2-2 draw, but it is still divided into winners and losers, depending on the net win, such as the first game of the group stage Wang Chuqin and Lin Gaoyuan were upset 2-2, but they actually won and won by 1 point. In the same way, Zhang Benzhihe upset Denmark's Grote 2-2 and narrowly won by two points! However, at that time, the International Table Tennis Federation had an "oolong incident" and sentenced Grote to advance, and it was announced that Zhang Benzhihe had advanced an hour and a half later! Recently, there have been many "new competition systems" in the international table tennis world, and I don't know whether it is good or bad, or is it just a novelty?
The group stage was a round-robin tournament, and there were many upsets, and the Olympic champion and world No. 9 Mimato Ito was in Group 7 with the lowest-ranked Thai player Sutasini in Group 7. Although Kuaiman is not an upset, he is also the only national table tennis player who is out of the group stage. In the men's team, the world No. 10 Qiu Dang finished second in the group, and the world No. 25 Hayasuke Uegami qualified.
The round of 16 knockout matches are benchmarked against the Olympic Games, 7 rounds and 4 wins, the biggest upset in the first round, the world's third Wang Yidi 1-4 world 12th, 15-year-old Zhang Ben Mihe, this is Wang Yidi's sixth defeat to Japanese players in more than a year, the first time he lost to Zhang Ben Mihe, five of which were opponents of the Japanese team Paris Olympians.
In the semifinals, Wang Manyu played against Zhang Benmeihe
In the last round, Wang Manyu won 4-1 Hina Hayata, and won a complete victory, without a single game to add points. Zhang Benmeihe won three consecutive games in the opening game, and also won 4-1, knocking out world No. 10 Adriana Diaz.
This year, Wang Manyu climbed to No. 2 in the world rankings with the WTT Singapore Grand Slam 2024 Women's Singles Title and WTT Incheon Championships Women's Singles Runner-up. is also the women's team champion of the Tokyo Olympics and the women's singles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, if you want to hit the individual Grand Slam, this stop cannot be missed, although it is the first time to participate in the World Cup. Wang Manyu's style of play basically has no shortcomings, his forehand and backhand are very strong, and his ability to hold each other is also outstanding.
Although Zhang Benmeihe is not very old, his skills and tactics are relatively comprehensive, and his strength on both sides is relatively balanced. Her backhand is able to create opportunities and put pressure on her opponent continuously, while her forehand can also be used well in the end, and she can use her backhand and tear and even the backpull technique in the middle of the court. In addition, the footwork is flexible and the platform area is relatively wide, so when she transitioned from the first three boards to the holding stage, she did not simply rely on the impact to add quality to fight the opponent, but she already had a certain strength and thickness, and was not afraid to fight a protracted battle.
In this duel, in the first game, the battle was stalemate to 9-8, Wang Manyu took the lead in getting the game point, Zhang Benmei and failed to save a game point, and lost 9-11. In the second game, the opening game was held to 3-3, Wang Manyu scored two points in a row, played a wave of 51 offensive to take a 9-4 lead, and 11-6 to the next city. In the third game, Zhang Benmeihe responded with a 9-4, 10-5 lead, and pulled back a city 11-6. In the fourth game, the beginning was stalemate, Wang Manyu gradually played a wave of offensive 10-6 to take the lead in the game point, 11-6 to take the lead. In the fifth game, 2-3 at the beginning, Zhang Benmei and actively attacked to take an 8-3, 9-4 lead, and won another game 11-9. In the sixth game, Wang Manyu won 13-11 under Zhang Benmeihe's first game point at 11-10. 4-2 took the lead in advancing to the finals, waiting for Sun Yingsha or Chen Meng.
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