The 2024 Saudi Arabia Grand Slam is underway, and in the women's singles semi-finals that ended in the early hours of this morning, Sun Yingsha, the No. 1 seed in national table tennis, defeated teammate Qian Tianyi 4-0 to advance to the semifinals.
In this Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, Sun Yingsha and Qian Tianyi's performance is very good, and this time the two will meet in the top 4, many viewers think that it will bring fans a very exciting showdown.
Sun Yingsha and Qian Tianyi are the same age, and entered the national team almost at the same time, the two have played 9 times in the international arena, and Sun Yingsha has a small lead of 5 wins and 4 losses, so the gap between the hard power of the two is not very big.
After the start of the game, Sun Yingsha entered the state very quickly, and directly beat Qian Tianyi into a daze, whether it was serving or returning, she couldn't score, Sun Yingsha's first three board scoring rate was as high as 90%, and in the blink of an eye, Sun Yingsha directly won the first game 11-0.
Qian Tian, who slowly entered the state, slowly found his rhythm at first, but Sun Yingsha felt too hot, and Sun Yingsha won 11-6 again in the second game.
At the beginning of the third game, Sun Yingsha once again got an 8-0 start, Qian Tianyi felt like he had just woken up, the offense and counterattack were all soft, and Sun Yingsha finally won the third game with a huge advantage of 11-3.
Coming to Sun Yingsha's tiebreaker, Qian Tianyi has completely lost her combat effectiveness, Sun Yingsha won the tiebreaker 11-6, defeated teammate Qian Tianyi 4-0 to advance to the top 4, and will face Chinese player Wang Yidi in the next round.
Although this game showed Sun Yingsha's super strength, and only Qian Tianyi scored 15 points in the four games, after the game, Sun Yingsha's 11-0 "shaved head" behavior caused controversy among netizens.
Chinese table tennis players have won and lost each other throughout the Olympic cycle, but they have never been beaten 11-0 in international competitions, which really makes Qian Tianyi a little unable to get off the stage.
Therefore, many netizens began to criticize Sun Yingsha, thinking that Sun Yingsha could give Qian Tianyi a ball under a huge advantage, so as to avoid making Qian Tianyi too embarrassed, Chen Meng was able to concede the ball for foreign players and avoid shaving his head, but now Sun Yingsha does not let the ball in the face of her national table tennis teammates, which is a bit too much!
Not only that, but insulting words such as "scheming girl", "good life", and "ball depends on character" appeared in the comment area!
In fact, the Table Tennis Association has already made regulations on handicap the ball, and players such as Zhang Yining and Chen Meng gave the ball to their teammates, which was completely autonomous, but now the Table Tennis Association has issued official regulations, so it is not the athlete's decision to let the ball or not give the ball.
Back in the 2021 Table Tennis Super League, Sun Yingsha scored 11-0 in the match with Heilongjiang player Qi Fei, and Sun Yingsha said in the post-match interview: I didn't deliberately want to concede the ball, to concede so many points or two, in order to respect the opponent and myself!
In the same year, in the Shaanxi National Games, the national table tennis player Niu Guankai won 11-0 against the players of Macao, China, and Niu Guankai took the initiative to explain after the game: Although 11-0 is very embarrassing, the new rules of the Table Tennis Association are that no matter how much the score is, you must work hard to play every point, and you can't let the ball!
Therefore, Sun Yingsha's approach of not conceding the ball is completely correct, taking 10,000 steps back, even if Sun Yingsha takes the initiative to concede the ball and rewrite the score to 11-1, can this play a comforting role for Qian Tianyi? On the contrary, if Qian Tianyi is an athlete with strong self-esteem, he will think that Sun Yingsha's behavior is "insulting", so fighting for every point is the basic bottom line of an athlete!
Athletes don't have such a glass heart, I don't know what netizens are hacking this time!
Regarding the fact that Sun Yingsha did not give Qian Tianyi the ball, which side are you on? Welcome everyone to actively leave a message in the comment area to discuss!