The latest report from the 2024 WTT Saudi Grand Slam is here! It's 11:59 a.m. EDT on May 10. On the penultimate day of this event, today's game is still not over, and the singles of the national table tennis team Wang Chuqin and Lin Shidong have not yet played. The men's and women's semi-finals are all best-of-7 formats. The Chinese team has won 3 championship trophies and locked up the women's singles championship and runner-up. In this event, the Chinese table tennis women's team performed very well, and three of the women's singles semifinals were Chinese players.
The latest report as of 00:00 a.m. is as follows:
Women's Singles Semifinals
Sun Yingsha vs Wang Yidi 4-1
11～4、11～7、13～15、11～9
Sun Yingsha's recent competitive form is very hot, this year won 1 many major championships, not long ago won the Macau World Cup championship, but also added a weight to become a Grand Slam for herself, and one Olympic champion is still one short of becoming the fastest player in history to win a Grand Slam.
Not much to say, Sun Yingsha easily won the first game, Sun Yingsha is very advantageous at the technical level, and she is also very stable in terms of mentality. In the face of Sun Yingsha's attack, Wang Yidi couldn't do it. In the second game, the score came to 8-5, Dadi couldn't fight Sun Yingsha with his backhand, and he couldn't beat Sun Yingsha with his forehand. Fang Bo explained that Sun Yingsha was too calm, Wang Yidi was obviously panicked, and after the second game, Sasha was like a walk.
In the third game, Wang Yidi could only let go to fight, and wanted to change the line when he had the opportunity, the score reached 12-12, and the two staged a forehand limit pull, Wang Yidi broke the kettle and made some changes in skills and tactics in the case of an unfavorable start, and played to 13~15, and it was difficult to pull back a game. The fourth game is to test the mentality of both sides, and the score is very tight. In the holding section, Wang Yidi's backhand holding ability was reflected, Wang Yidi became more and more calm, and the score reached 9-9, and in the end he still couldn't beat Sun Yingsha.
In the fifth game, Wang Yidi had no way out, only to give it a go, Wang Yidi increased the quality of the forehand position and defense, and bit the score tightly. 9-9。 This game is Mars hitting the earth, and the two of them seem to be very difficult to think about now, and Wang Yidi ate Sun Yingsha's two serves and lost the game at the key point.
Congratulations to Sun Yingsha for advancing to the women's singles final of the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, and will face Chen Meng in the next match to compete for the women's singles championship trophy