On May 6, Beijing time, there was a rare sudden situation in the table tennis WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, when Japanese star Hina Hayada suffered a nosebleed during the duel with German Olympic runner-up Shan Xiaona, resulting in a long interruption of the game.
After on-site emergency treatment, Hina Hayada returned to the court, continued to suppress Shan Xiaona and finally eliminated her with a score of 3-1, thus advancing to the women's singles round of 16, and will next face Chinese Taipei world runner-up Zheng Yijing - there are no national table tennis players in the 4/4 zone where Hina Hayada is currently located (Wang Manyu lost 1-3 to India's Batra), and she is very hopeful of advancing to the semifinals.
See below for a detailed breakdown of the battle.
Hina Hayada and Shan Xiaona are all first-class masters of foreign associations, the former ranks fifth in the world, second only to the four main national table tennis players Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, and has won the third place in the women's singles of the World Table Tennis Championships, the runner-up of the women's singles of the Asian Games, and the women's singles champion of the Asian Championships, which can be called the athlete who has posed the greatest threat to Chinese women's table tennis in recent years.
Shan Xiaona was a Chinese athlete, and later naturalized in Germany, and won the women's team runner-up in the Olympic Games in 2016, her strength is not bad, but her direct shooting one-sided fast attack style is slightly backward, and she is 41 years old, and it is difficult to compete with Hina Hayata, who is 17 years younger than herself.
After the start of the first game, Hina Hayada took the lead in scoring, using her left-handed horizontal shooting, two-sided back-glue to the right-handed direct shooting one-sided play line advantage to constantly break the defense, pressing the backhand, adjusting the forehand, throwing a large angle with ease, and soon took the lead, and finally won the first place easily 11-6.
In the second game, Shan Xiaona's attack was relatively more ferocious, playing the characteristics of China's direct shooting and fast attack, so that Hina Hayata, who started slowly, had no time to react, and finally pulled back a city at 11-8, and the two sides returned to the same running line.
In the third game, Hina Hayada regained her strength, attacked Shan Xiaona's defense line with continuous attacks, and then won again 11-7, but at this time there was an accident, only to see the Japanese player suddenly have a nosebleed on the court, the reason is unknown, the game was interrupted, and the doctors or staff in the stadium hurriedly came up with ice packs to treat Hina Hayata.
After returning to the game, Hina Hayada did not show much physical discomfort, and finally sealed the victory with 11-5, thus defeating Shan Xiaona 3-1, advancing to the round of 16 to face Zheng Yijing, and continuing to attack the semi-final qualification.