In the early morning of May 7, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam continued, and the national table tennis Olympic champion Chen Meng appeared on the stage to face the Canadian Chinese player Zhang Mo.
At present, Chen Meng's Olympic points have risen to the second place in the women's team, as long as she does not lose the foreign war, she can squeeze out Wang Manyu and be selected for the Paris Olympics singles, so can she seize the opportunity? The suspense still exists! Please see below for the detailed battle situation.
Zhang Mo is a representative of Chinese table tennis players, with a horizontal forehand and a backhand, which is the same way as the French player Yuan Jianan, although he became famous earlier, his record in national table tennis is not outstanding. But for Chen Meng, this competition is of great significance, because it is already her last chance to qualify for the Olympic singles, and she cannot lose any foreign battles.
Although Wang Manyu is currently losing to Batra and has been deducted 3,000 points, if Chen Meng loses, he will still lag behind Wang Manyu in the team standings and then lose the Olympic singles, so it is difficult to say whether he can maintain a balanced mentality and play at his usual normal level under such circumstances, and every game is a severe test.
After the start of the first game, Chen Meng quickly found the feeling of the game, taking advantage of Zhang Mo's fast speed, but lack of spin to attack the ball strongly, and soon grasped the initiative on the court, and then easily won the first place 11-4 - compared with Yuan Jianan, Zhang Mo lacks excellent serving and attacking ability, so the threat is smaller.
In the second game, Zhang Mo increased the rhythm change of the return ball, and made it difficult for Chen Meng through different performance rubbers, and achieved good results, Chen Meng was indeed a little uncomfortable at first, but soon found his feeling again, and then reversed 11-7 and then reversed the next city, thus forcing Zhang Mo into a desperate situation with a 2-0 lead.
In the third game, Zhang Mo had no way out, so he could only fight desperately to turn the tables, but the threat of the positive rubber fast attack in the big ball era was not as good as before, and it was easy to make frequent mistakes when he forced his force, and finally Chen Meng locked the victory with an absolute advantage of 11-7, and thus swept the opponent with a big score of 3-0 and got the ticket to the women's singles round of 16.
According to the signing, Chen Meng will face Japan's world champion Miu Hirano in the next round, the latter is very lucky, the opponent in the second round, South Korean Chinese star Zhu Qianxi directly retired and did not play, so she won without a fight to advance - although Chen Meng has not lost to the other party for a long time, but in the face of the pressure of Olympic competition, can she avoid repeating the mistakes of Wang Manyu? Let's wait and see what happens!