In the 2024 WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam Women's Singles 1/16 finals, Wang Manyu suffered a major setback, losing to India's Batra with a score of 1-3, thus missing the round of 16.
In the first game of the match, Wang Manyu easily won 11-6, but then Batra adjusted his tactics and scored many sideways attacks, winning three games in a row with a score of 11-5, 11-7 and 12-10, and finally won the reversal.
The impact of this defeat on Wang Manyu was very serious. According to the Chinese Table Tennis Association's Olympic women's singles selection rules, 3,000 points will be deducted if you lose a foreign battle. With Wang Manyu in the round of 32 at the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, her Olympic points will drop from 14,865 to 11,865, and her ranking will drop from second to third. This means that Chen Meng's Olympic points (13,310 points) will surpass Wang Manyu and rise to second place.
At present, Sun Yingsha has a high Olympic score of 27,650 points and has locked a singles spot. Since Wang Yidi was disqualified from singles, only Wang Manyu and Chen Meng were left to compete for another women's singles spot. Wang Manyu had already surpassed Chen Meng in Olympic points with her outstanding performance this year, but this defeat could have cost her Olympic singles qualification.
The tournament had a major impact on Wang's chances of qualifying for an Olympic singles spot, and the possibility of a similar opportunity at the next Olympics has become very difficult. However, she still has the opportunity to join hands with Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng in the women's team competition.
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