Saudi Arabia Grand Slam: The national table tennis women's doubles got off to a good start, Wang Manyu regained her strength and joined hands with Chen Meng to advance

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2024-05-07 16:22Posted in Hunan Sports Creators

On May 7, Beijing time, the national table tennis ushered in the first women's doubles matchup of the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, and the pair of the two Olympic champions Chen Meng/Wang Manyu appeared on the stage to face Romania's Samara/Diaconu.

The pressure on the national table tennis women's doubles in this competition is not small, because the two pairs of World Table Tennis Championships champions with the best results, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu, Chen Meng/Wang Yidi, were dismantled, and Chen Meng/Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi/Chen Xingtong participated in the battle, and Wang Manyu was deducted 3000 points for a single game before, and her mentality may be affected, I hope she can get out of the shadows and pass smoothly with her teammates - please see below for details.

Highlights of the game

Chen Meng/Wang Manyu are not the strongest women's doubles pair in national table tennis at present, but since the two are likely to participate in the Paris Olympics, and another player, Sun Yingsha, is likely to take on the two singles matches of the Olympic team competition, the coaching staff will naturally give priority to letting Chen Meng and Wang Manyu cope with the first set of doubles, which was also the arrangement of the last Tokyo Olympics.

In terms of strength, Chen Meng/Wang Manyu is obviously above Samara/Diakonu, but because Wang Manyu lost 1-3 to India's Batra in women's singles the day before, 3,000 points were deducted, and now she is likely to lose the Olympic singles, so the mentality may be affected, and there are doubts about whether the women's doubles can play normally this time.

The process of the game

After the start of the first game, Wang Manyu still seemed to be more active on the court, many of the balls were rushing forward to the opponent, not showing much conservative mentality, and Chen Meng and her cooperation was also more tacit, the two quickly used high-quality arc ball offense to take the lead, and the two quickly won the first place 11-5.

In the second game, the Romanian players showed a relatively strong ability to hold each other, and the speed in the near stage was not particularly inferior, although the score was behind, but still able to beat Chen Meng/Wang Manyu back from the stage and score through a strong attack, worthy of being a traditional women's table tennis team in Europe and even the world, but the strength gap is still a bit big, and the result was defeated by the national table tennis combination 11-6 and forced into a desperate situation.

In the third game, Samara/Diaconu had no way to retreat, and began to fight with quality, many of the balls were directly thrown away and restored, but their partners did not make enough preparations to make up the board, and the result was faster, and finally Chen Meng/Wang Manyu easily ended the battle 11-2, thus advancing to the women's doubles quarterfinals and continuing to impact the championship.

As mentioned earlier, at present, Wang Manyu has been out of the women's singles event and lost the foreign war, and then Chen Meng can get the Olympic singles qualification as long as she can ensure that she does not lose the foreign war, but she still has Japan's three main forces in front of her, Miyu Hirano, Miwa Zhangmoto, and Hina Hayada are waiting for her, and she also has to take on the doubles task, which is also under great pressure.

Finally, it is expected that Chen Meng and Wang Manyu can unload their psychological baggage, travel lightly, and strive to hold the foreign war position of national table tennis.

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