On May 11, Beijing time, the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam ushered in the final day.
Because there is a five-hour time difference between Saudi Arabia and us, the local schedule for May 10 is still being played in Saudi Arabia, and the two men's singles semi-finals are being staged, and then the 10th schedule will be completed. The women's singles final will start at 19:00 Beijing time tonight, and the men's singles final will be held at 20:00!
In the early morning, the men's singles semi-finals in the first half of the tournament ended, and the top seed Wang Chuqin played against the 19-year-old national table tennis player Lin Shidong to compete for the qualification of the first half of the region! Because all the national table tennis players in the lower half have been eliminated, Germany's Francesca and South Korea's Zhang Yuzhen will face off later to compete for the qualification, so the men's singles final will be a foreign battle!
The top 8 seeds, only the top seed Wang Chuqin is still playing, and the rest have been eliminated!
In the first game, Lin Shidong was impeccable at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, winning 11-8!
In the second game, the two sides fought to 7-7, Lin Shidong scored one point each in the serving link, and then Wang Chuqin made a mistake in his forehand, and Lin Shidong scored in a straight line against the attack, 10-8 to get the game point, and then 11-8 to win the game!
In the third game, Lin Shidong started 6-5, Wang Chuqin ate the serve and went out of bounds, 6-8 behind by 2 points; Wang Chuqin used his serve to score 2 points in a row, and he also had a twist and pull on the serve, and the forehand was half out of the table, 10-8 exceeded, and the serve was twisted and pulled to win the game, and the big score was chased to 1-2!
In the fourth game, Wang Chuqin ate the serve, started 3-5, made a straight mistake with his forehand, Lin Shidong defended iron, and Wang Chuqin's forehand was empty. At the end of the game, the two sides fought to 8-8, Lin Shidong scored with high quality at the critical moment, Wang Chuqin scored 5 forehand offensive points to get the game point, won the game 11-9, and the big score chased 2-2!
In the battle of Tianwang Mountain, Lin Shidong collapsed at the beginning and fell behind 1-7, Wang Chuqin gradually took the initiative, 10-3 got 7 game points, 11-4 won the game, at this time he won three games in a row, and the big score exceeded 3-2!
In the crucial sixth game, Lin Shidong shot very decisively at the critical moment, twisted his backhand and scored in a straight line, winning the game 11-7, and the big score was chased to 3-3!
In the deciding game, Wang Chuqin started 3-1, started with a backhand out of bounds, scored with a continuous forehand pull, and scored with a backhand twist after serving, leading 5-2 to exchange venues! Wang Chuqin failed to pull the ball with his forehand, Lin Shidong pulled the ball with his forehand and wiped the net out of bounds, Wang Chuqin's sneak attack on the long ball was targeted by Lin Shidong, and then put the high ball out of bounds, and the big head was 8-4 close to the match point! Then it was hard to win the game!
In this way, the match ended with a difficult victory for Wang Chuqin, who advanced to the men's singles final and will wait for the winner between Francesca and Zhang Yuzhen to compete for the men's singles championship in this competition!