In the women's singles quarterfinals of the 2024 WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam on the 9th, Hina Hayata, the first sister of Japanese table tennis ranked 5th in the world, defeated Indian player Batra, ranked 39th in the world, 4-1 and entered the semifinals.
Hina Hayata, the first sister of Japanese table tennis ranked 5th in the world
In recent years, the Indian women's team has shocked the table tennis world with its special play style of heterogeneous rubber, and Batra is also the ace player in the team. In this event, she defeated the World Table Tennis Championships women's singles champion and national table tennis star Wang Manyu 3 years ago, and then she will face Hina Hayada across the net. Past match-up results show that Hina Hayada and Batra have played each other 3 times, and Hina Hayada has won 2 wins and 1 loss.
In this battle, Batra suddenly used a lot of long and short back serves as soon as he came up, and Hina Hayada missaw the spin many times, resulting in more mistakes, and finally gave the opponent a 7-11 preemptive shot. However, from the second game onwards, Hina Hayata's serve was powerful, and after seeing the opponent's incoming ball, she turned to counterattack and tied the game 11-6.
India's Batra
In the third game, the anxious Batra made many hitting errors, and Hina Hayata, who continued to increase her score, quickly won 11-4. In the fourth game, both sides fought each other's serve quality, and the score went back and forth, and it was deadlocked until after 10 draws. At this point, Hina Hayada dominated the stalemate and won 13-11. After the first four rounds of testing, Hina Hayada was already familiar with Batra's path, and the fifth game almost became the former's show, while Batra, who was unable to recover, could only accept a 2-11 defeat and hand over the ending of the whole game.
So far, Hina Hayada has become the first Japanese player to reach the semifinals of the women's singles of this tournament. In the semi-finals, she will face the winner between Zhang Benmei and China's Chen Meng.
Hina Hayada became the first Japanese player to reach the semi-finals of the tournament
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Hina Hayada 4-1 Batra (India)
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