On the evening of May 5, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam continued, and Sun Yingsha, the world's No. 1 player in national table tennis, appeared on the stage to face Chinese Taipei athlete Liu Xinyin, and Sun Yingsha got off to a good start with 3-0 in the first match and easily advanced to the top 32 of women's singles.
Prior to this, Sun Yingsha has achieved the first place in the national table tennis standings, plus the mixed doubles and Wang Chuqin have been ranked first in the world for a long time, so if nothing else, she will be selected for the Paris Olympics women's team, women's singles, mixed doubles three events, without the pressure of competition in the team, she will travel lightly this time and hit the championship of the Grand Slam again! Please see below for details.
Sun Yingsha is the women's singles champion of last year's World Table Tennis Championships, and also the women's singles champion of this year's World Cup, and also won the women's singles runner-up in the Olympic Games in 2021.
Relatively speaking, Chinese Taipei player Liu Xinyin's level is average, and he is not in the top two in the team (obviously inferior to Zheng Yijing and Chen Siyu), and his rank in the world is not high, so it is generally believed that this battle is more auspicious and less auspicious, and it is difficult to break the upset.
After the start of the first game, Liu Xinyin fought fiercely on the court, knowing that her skills and tactics were far inferior to the main force of national table tennis, she could only try her best to fight hard in order to win in chaos, but the gap between the strength of the two was too big, Sun Yingsha quickly grasped the initiative on the court, and used her powerful forehand and backhand arc ball to suppress the opponent, and then won the first place 11-7.
In the second game, Sun Yingsha continued to expand her advantage, launched a fierce attack on Liu Xinyin, and soon completely suppressed her opponent, this time 11-4 more easily to the next game, and the Chinese Taipei player was forced into a desperate situation.
In the third game, Liu Xinyin still kept falling behind, although he fought fiercely, but he couldn't find too many ways to score, his forehand was not as good as Zheng Yijing, and his overall strength was not as good as Chen Siyu, and these two teammates were currently at a comprehensive disadvantage when they met Sun Yingsha, Liu Xinyin was naturally more passive, and finally Sun Yingsha ended the battle with 11-4 and won the promotion without any suspense.
At present, Sun Yingsha has reached a golden period of development in her career, and I hope she can maintain her good form, strive to win the women's singles title of this Grand Slam, and at the same time realize her dream of a Grand Slam in the Olympic year.