At 19:10 on the evening of May 6, Beijing time, the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam continued to compete in the second round of singles at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah. According to the optimized selection rules of the National Table Tennis Olympics, Wang Manyu was deducted 3,000 points for losing the foreign war, which is equivalent to giving up the qualification of the second person in Olympic singles to Chen Meng.
Highlights of the game
Wang Manyu's highest goal in this competition is to defeat Chen Meng in the national table tennis Olympic selection and win the second singles qualification, so all the matches before the semi-finals must be won by Wang Manyu. In the first round, Wang Manyu easily defeated Thailand's Paranam 3-0, and his form values at all latitudes were very good.
Batra has already played against Wang Manyu twice in 2024, Wang Manyu didn't feel the power of her weird glue play, and she won two battles and won very safely.
With India's biggest rivals, Akula, suffering a first-round tour and two other rivals, the Mukherjee sisters, failing to qualify, Batra's Olympic situation has eased considerably, and there is now a hope of retaining his Olympic status.
This change has allowed Batra to be more relaxed in her mentality, and she will be able to relax and play at her best against Wang Manyu.
The course of the game
In the first game, Wang Manyu was well prepared, quickly entered her strongest mode, and stared at Batra's backhand long rubber, which made her constantly fall into passive defense, and at the same time, the particle changes were also very regular. 11-6, the eel strategy was right and won the first game smoothly.
In the second game, Batra took the initiative to change, opened the way with a forehand strong attack, and took a 3-0 lead in the opening game. Batra then went crazy and messed up the ball pace and spin. This is Batra's latest new growth, the eels are a little stunned, Batra took advantage of the chaos to win 11-5, pull back a game point, and the two fought 1-1.
In the third game, Batra led 5-1 at the beginning, and the eels were tortured again. In the latter part of the game, Batra has been maintaining a big score difference of about 4 points, and got the game point at 10-5, Wang Manyu couldn't catch up and lost another game 7-11. Batra Oita overtook 2-1.
In the crucial fourth game, Wang Manyu had no way to retreat, only to attack strongly, she was full of horsepower with her forehand and backhand, and won 4-1 at the beginning. Batra then gave full play to the backhand long rubber particle knock ball, restricting Wang Manyu from speeding up, and overtook 7-5 in one fell swoop. The eel is dangerous, and it seems that it can't pull through Batra's backhand rubber. Entering the final game, Wang Manyu finally woke up to the Force and got a good situation of 10-8. But unexpectedly, Batra actually scored 4 points in a row to win another game 12-10, thus defeating Wang Manyu 3-1 and breaking into the round of 16 of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career.
Batra was so excited that she cried on the spot, and Wang Manyu was sad.
In this battle, Wang Manyu lost the first foreign battle after the national table tennis women's team optimized the Olympic selection rules, and she had to be deducted 3,000 Olympic selection points. This means that as long as Chen Meng does not lose the foreign war next, the second person in the Olympic singles of the national table tennis women's team will be obtained by Chen Meng!
This is really easy to turn, Wang Manyu's two and a half months of hard work in exchange for the peak and loop turn, was smashed into ashes by this loss.