The powerful Chinese army suffered a heavy blow in the men's and women's singles round of 32 at the 2024 WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam on the 6th, with world No. 4 Liang Jingkun, No. 6 Lin Gaoyuan and women's world No. 2 Wang Manyu all upset.
Liang Jingkun, ranked No. 4 in the world, lost to Iranian Aramian and went out early
Liang Jingkun, who only won the WTT Incheon Championship last month, faced the world No. 68 Iranian monster Alamian in the second round, and was completely unaccustomed to the opponent's bizarre serve and the special style of play of the whole Taiwan's backhand, and was defeated 14-12, 6-11, 11-8, 9-11, 5-11 after five games.
Lin Gaoyuan, who reached the final of the ITTF Macau World Cup all the way to the final last month, was defeated by Ma Long's performance, and on the same day, he faced the Danish brother Gloss, who was ranked 27th in the world, and also fell into a hard battle, missing two game points in the crucial fourth game, and finally lost 8:11, 7:11, 14:12, 11:13, and missed the round of 16.
Lin Gaoyuan lost to Danish brother Glos and failed to advance to the round of 16
Wang Manyu, who won the Singapore Grand Slam championship this year and reached the finals of the Incheon Championships and the Macau World Cup, encountered the world's No. 39 Indian female player Batra, and was also reversed 11:6, 5:11, 7:11, 10:12, ending the five-game winning streak and becoming the first national table tennis female player to go out of the Grand Slam.
Women's Singles second seed Wang Manyu lost to India's Batra
In addition, the world's No. 7 South Korean sister Shin Yubin also lost 0:3 to the world's No. 23 Japanese women's player Kihara Miyu and ended in the top 32 of the women's singles.