10 seats will be decided in the top 16 of women's singles! National table tennis accounts for 2 seats, Wang Manyu is out, and Chen Meng wins the bottom half alone. The top 16 of the 2024 WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam women's singles has decided 10 seats, and 3 national table tennis players have played, Chen Meng and Wang Yidi successfully advanced to the top 16, Wang Manyu was upset 1-3, and then Sun Yingsha, Chen Xingtong, and Qian Tianyi three national table tennis players hit the top 16 seats.
In this competition, the national table tennis women's team has a total of 6 participants, the first round of the 6 national table tennis players are very good, but to the second round, Wang Manyu, who took the lead, suffered Waterloo, this campaign, Wang Manyu against the Indian player Batra, although the latter is a special style of play, but because of the premature appearance, it has already been targeted by the national table tennis research, so before the game, the outside world almost thought that Wang Manyu would achieve a big victory, the first game, Wang Manyu did play very active, as soon as he came up, he led 5-0, and soon won a game 11-6, but in the second game, Wang Manyu suddenly broke the line, and Batra quickly pulled back a game with 11-5, the third game, Wang Manyu's state is still very poor, Batra led all the way, won another game 11-7, in the fourth game, Wang Manyu fought with his back and started with 4-0, but then Batra scored 4 points in a row to tie, and then the two sides entered the struggle, Wang Manyu once got the game point 10-8, but then Batra scored 4 points in a row and ended the game 12-10, thus eliminating Wang Manyu with a total score of 3-1.
Chen Meng played against Canadian player Zhang Mo, the gap in strength between the two sides is still relatively large, Chen Meng did not encounter too much trouble, and soon won three games in a row 11-4, 11-7, 11-7, and won with a total score of 3-0. There is also a national table tennis player Wang Yidi who swept South Korea's Kim Na-young 11-6, 11-3, 11-5 and successfully advanced to the round of 16. In the next 1/8 finals, Wang Yidi vs. Yang Xiaoxin, Chen Meng vs. Miyu Hirano, Zhang Benmeiwa vs. Zorgia, Hina Hayada vs. Zheng Yijing, and Mittram vs. Batra.
Before the start of this competition, Wang Manyu was also ahead of Chen Meng by more than 1,500 Olympic selection points, but after Wang Manyu lost the foreign war, he will be deducted 3,000 points, which means that Chen Meng has now surpassed Wang Manyu and risen to second place, as long as Chen Meng can beat Miyu Hirano next, he should be able to lock the Olympic singles qualification, but Chen Meng's pressure is also relatively large, plus Miyu Hirano has defeated national table tennis players many times in the past two seasons, which is not easy to deal with. This article was originally written by Xiao Lizi, please do not plagiarize or carry it.