On May 6th, Beijing time, the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam entered the third day of competition in the main event, and the top 32 singles were released (see the chart below for details)!
At present, the match between Liang Jingkun and Iran's Alamiyan has ended, and as a result, Liang Jingkun, the No. 4 seed in the men's singles, was eliminated and became the first player in the national table tennis team to go out, losing 2-3 to Alamiyan, the biggest upset since the main match!
You must know that Liang Jingkun was 2-1 ahead in the big score, and was reversed by Alamiyang in two consecutive games to win, and the deciding game was a 5-11 defeat.
The next national table tennis player is Wang Chuqin, who is playing against Romania's Ionescu, Wang Chuqin, 23 years old, the world No. 1 in men's singles, and Romanian Ionescu, 34 years old, ranked 50th in the world, the two have not played each other before, and the Romanian player cannot give the big head any threat.
This event is very important for Wang Chuqin, because at present, Wang Chuqin has won the men's singles quota of the National Table Tennis Paris Olympics, and it is almost officially announced. The lineup of this event is comparable to the World Table Tennis Championships, and even more luxurious than the Olympic Games, so for Wang Chuqin, it is a test process, and the time to test Wang Chuqin has come, and the following brings the details of this game.
In the first game, Wang Chuqin took the lead 3-1, and Ionescu chased the score to 4-5 in the middle section, and then Wang Chuqin scored 6 points in a row, and got 6 game points in the first game 11-4.
In the second game, Wang Chuqin took a 9-0 lead in one breath, Romanian player Ionescu had no way at all, Wang Chuqin got 8 game points in the second game with 10-2, and then Ionescu got 1 point, Wang Chuqin still won the second game with a score of 11-3, and the big score was 2-0 to take the lead.
In the third game, Ionescu let go, and the two sides bit very tightly on the score, fighting from a 1-1 draw to a 5-5 draw, and then Wang Chuqin scored 4 points in a row, 9-5 to pull the score away. At the end of the game, Wang Chuqin got 4 match point opportunities at 10-6, and finally won the third game 11-6 through a lucky ball to wipe the net, so as to easily defeat the opponent with a big score of 3-0 and advance to the top 16 of men's singles.
In the next men's singles 1/8 finals, Wang Chuqin's opponent will be the winner between Japan's Yoshimura Maharu and Egypt's Assal.