At the 2024 WTT Grand Slam Saudi Arabia Station, the male and female national table tennis players performed well and have won 4 championships, including the women's singles final in the national table tennis derby. Now the pressure is on Wang Chuqin, if he wins the championship, the national table tennis will win all the championships and end perfectly.
Mixed Doubles Final:
Sun Yingsha/Wang Chuqin 3-0 (11-6 11-6 11-6), Huang Zhenting/Du Kaiqin
Women's Doubles Final:
Chen Meng/Wang Manyu 3-0 (11-6 11-6 12-10), Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin
Men's Doubles Final:
Ma Long/Wang Chuqin 3-0 (11-6 11-5 11-9) Hayasuke Togami/Daito Shinozuka
So far, the national table tennis has won three championships. However, in the women's singles competition, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng were in full shape and successfully met in the finals. Among them: Chen Meng 4-0 (11-9 11-5 12-10 11-7) Hina Hayata; It is worth mentioning that in this competition, Chen Meng is also the only national table tennis player who has won against three Japanese players in a row (3-0 Miu Hirano in the 1/8 finals, and Miwa Zhang in the 1/4 finals). With this victory, Chen Meng also successfully locked a women's singles ticket to Paris.
In the other women's singles semi-final, Sun Yingsha continued to maintain a steady performance, defeating teammate Wang Yidi 4-1 (11-4 11-7 13-15 11-9) to advance to the final. This is Sun Yingsha's fourth women's singles final of the season, and she has won all of them (Chen Meng 4-1 in Doha at the WTT Star Challenge, Wang Manyu 4-0 at the 2024 World Table Tennis Federation Championship in South Korea, and Wang Manyu 4-3 in the 2024 ITTF Women's World Cup Final).
In this way, the ultimate showdown in women's singles is the national table tennis derby: Sun Yingsha VS Chen Meng. The two not only won the championship and runner-up in this competition, but also will join hands in the women's singles competition at the Paris Olympics.
In the men's singles semifinals, Francesca 4-3 (8-11 11-6 11-5 7-11 11 11-9 5-11 11-8) Zhang Yuzhen, the whole match can be described as ups and downs, very exciting and intense. The other semi-final was equally thrilling, with world No.1 Chu Chin beating teammate Lin Shidong 4-3 (8-11 8-11 11-8 11-9 11-4 7-11 11-6) in seven games to advance to the final.
So far, the ultimate matchup in men's singles:
Wang Chuqin VS Francesca
It is worth mentioning that, like Sun Yingsha, Wang Chuqin has also played steadily this season, this is his fourth men's singles final this season, and he has won all of them before. (World Table Tennis Professional League Men's Finals 4-0 Fan Zhendong, WTT Star Challenge Doha Station 4-2 Lin Shidong, WTT Singapore Grand Slam 4-1 Liang Jingkun).