The 2024 WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam has entered the final day, men's singles and women's singles finals. National table tennis won 3-0 in the women's doubles and men's doubles finals, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, Ma Long and Wang Chuqin formed women's doubles, and men's doubles won two championships respectively.
In the women's singles semifinals, Chen Meng repelled the Japanese star player Hina Hayada 4-0, in the third game, Hina Hayada came up to fight fiercely to take the lead in the score, and then was caught up by Chen Meng to equalize, and finally did not pull back a game in the key game of the third game, and finally Chen Meng successfully advanced to the women's singles final.
In another women's singles semi-final, Sun Yingsha won teammate Wang Yidi 4-1, the two played very exciting in the next few games, the score was close, Wang Yidi pulled back a game with a big score of 0-2 behind, and the third game was tied at 13-13, and Wang Yidi pulled back a key game 15-13. In the fourth and fifth games, the scores were 9-11, and finally Sun Yingsha won the game and advanced to the women's singles final, where she competed for the championship and runner-up against Chen Meng.
Wang Chuqin and Lin Shidong played against each other, the first game was tied at 8-8, Lin Shidong scored two points in a row to get the match point 10-8, and then scored another point to win the first game 11-8, Wang Chuqin came up and lost a game.
In the second game, it was still tied at 8-8, Wang Chuqin served, lost one point to 8-9, Lin Shidong turned straight on both sides and Wang Chuqin scored another point to 10-8 to the match point, and finally 11-8 Lin Shidong won another game, leading Wang Chuqin 2-0.
In the third game, it was a key game for Wang Chuqin, but it was still tied at 8-8, Wang Chuqin led by one point, played 9-8, got the match point 10-8, and won the third game 11-8, pulling back the key game.
In the fourth game, Wang Chuqin pulled back another game, the big score was tied at 2-2, and in the fifth game, Wang Chuqin led 7-1, Lin Shidong made a little more mistakes, and then chased a point to 2-7, Wang Chuqin played the score to 10-3 to get the match point, 11-4 to win the fifth game, and won three games in a row to reverse the score to 3-2 under the condition of 0-2 behind.
In the sixth game, Wang Chuqin maintained a lead 6-4, and was chased by Lin Shidong to a 6-6 tie, then 10-7 Lin Shidong got the match point, and 11-7 Lin Shidong won the sixth game, and the two played to the deciding game.
In the seventh game, Wang Chuqin came up to lead 5-2, maintained the advantage 8-6, got the match point 10-6, and won the game 11-6, Wang Chuqin advanced to the men's singles final, and then will face the winner of Francesca and Zhang Yuzhen, ushering in the foreign war, competing for the men's singles championship and runner-up, and cheering for the national table tennis!
CCTV CCTV5 live broadcast schedule:
Saturday, May 11
19:00 Women's Singles Final
20:00 Men's Singles final