The 2024 ITTF Saudi Grand Slam continues, and the top 16 of the men's and women's singles are all produced, in the second round of the women's singles competition, the national table tennis has achieved 5 wins and 1 loss, and only the world's No. 2 Wang Manyu lost to the Indian star Bharat and missed the round of 16, and the other five players Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, and Qian Tianyi all advanced to the top 16 after sweeping their respective opponents 3-0 in straight games. The women's singles are still strong overall, and the Japanese women's team, the country's top rivals, has also performed well so far in this tournament, with five players advancing to the round of 16 like the Chinese team. The women's singles field was generally stable, and after two rounds, only three of the world's top 10 players, Wang Manyu, Shin Yubin and Szokos, were eliminated.
The national table tennis women's team sent five golden flowers and Qian Tianyi's strongest lineup in this competition, objectively speaking, the performance of the Chinese women's team is still relatively stable, unfortunately the world's second ranked Wang Manyu fell off the chain at the critical moment of competing for singles tickets to the Paris Olympics, she won one game and then lost three games in a row 1-3 upset to Balat, basically missing the women's singles qualification for the Paris Olympics. After Wang Manyu lost, Chen Meng and Wang Yidi were given a chance, and the two were particularly motivated in the second round, and Chen Meng eliminated Zhang Mo after shooting out 3-0 with full firepower.
And Wang Yidi's form picked up, and she faced the powerful South Korean star Kim Na Ying when she won three games in a row and eliminated her opponent 3-0. Although Chen Xingtong encountered strong resistance from Chinese Taipei star Jian Tongjuan, he still won three games in a row and defeated his opponent 3-0 to advance to the top 16 of women's singles. World No. 1 Sun Yingsha faced the nobody, and the increasingly dominant Sun Yingsha swept her opponent 3-0 in straight games to advance to the top 16 of the women's singles. Qian Tianyi played very aggressively in the face of the European champion Polkanova, Qian Tianyi won three games in a row 11-7, 13-11, 11-7, swept Polkanova with a total score of 3-0, and advanced to the women's singles round of 16 strongly, so that five national table tennis players advanced to the third round.
The performance of the strongest opponent of the national table tennis women's singles, the Japanese women's table tennis, is also very strong, and all five players participating in the competition successfully entered the top 16 of the women's singles. In the face of Shin Yubin, ranked seventh in the world, Kihara Miyu won three games in a row, defeating her opponent with a total score of 3-0, breaking out another big upset in the women's singles field.
Recently, the 16-year-old Zhang Benmeihe, who has been in the limelight, continued her good form, facing the Portuguese Chinese star Shao Jieni, Zhang Benmeihe had no mercy, she won three games in a row with a total score of 3-0 to defeat the opponent to advance to the top 16 of women's singles, and the Japanese women's table tennis sister Hina Hayada faced the German Chinese star Shan Xiaona in this round, the latter is a member of the Olympic team runner-up, with considerable strength, this game Hina Hayada won not easily, she not only lost a game, but also the difference in points in each game is not large, However, she was better at seizing the opportunity, and she finally passed 3-1. The easiest to advance to the round of 16 is the world champion Miu Hirano, due to the temporary retirement of her opponent Zhu Qianxi, Miu Hirano won without a fight and directly advanced to the top 16 of women's singles.
In other matches, Chinese Taipei's world runner-up Zheng Yijing played well, knocking out South Korean beauty Seo Hyo-won 3-0 in straight games to advance to the third round, where she will next face Hina Hayada for the quarterfinals. South Korean-Chinese star Tian Zhixi is in good form, she won 3-1 after four games with American player Zhang An, and she will next face Sun Yingsha, the world No. 1 in national table tennis. Chinese star Yang Xiaoxin defeated Chinese Taipei's Chen Siyu 3-1, Mittram eliminated Singapore's Zeng Jian 3-1, and Picarin defeated Poland's Baggio 3-2, who upset world No. 10 Szokos in the first round. According to the schedule, the five players who advanced to the third round of the national table tennis competition are all strong opponents, Chen Xingtong and Qian Tianyi compete for the quarterfinals, and the national table tennis locks a place in the quarterfinals in advance. Sun Yingsha vs. Tian Zhixi, Chen Meng vs. Japanese world champion Miyu Hirano, the two Olympic champions of national table tennis are facing a huge challenge, and Wang Yidi's opponent in the third round is the Chinese star Yang Xiaoxin, looking forward to a better performance of the national table tennis players.