In the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, a much-watched women's singles semi-final was held on the evening of May 10, against Chinese player Chen Meng and Japanese player Hina Hayata!
This is the third time that Chen Meng has met a Japanese table tennis player in this competition!
In the 1/8 finals, Chen Meng met Miu Hirano of Japan, and as a result, Chen Meng played well, swept Miu Hirano with a score of 4-0 and advanced to the quarterfinals!
Subsequently, Chen Meng met the Japanese teenager Miwa Zhangmoto, and in the face of the impact of this young player, Chen Meng finally defeated the opponent with a score of 4-1 and successfully advanced to the semifinals of the women's singles!
Chen Meng's semi-final match against the first sister of Japanese table tennis Hina Hayata!
In this year's World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, Chen Meng once played against Hina Hayata, and Chen Meng unexpectedly lost to Hina Hayada at that time! So this rematch is also a battle of revenge for Chen Meng!
In the face of this opponent, who can be called the strongest opponent of Chinese women's table tennis, Chen Meng played bravely, and finally swept the opponent with a score of 4-0, except for the strong resistance of the opponent in the third game, Chen Meng did not give the opponent any chance at all in the rest of the game, and easily defeated the opponent 11-9, 11-5, 12-10, 11-7, and successfully entered the women's singles final of this Grand Slam!
It is worth mentioning that while Chen Meng successfully entered the women's singles final, Chen Meng also obtained another singles qualification for the Paris Olympics!
Originally, after the Macau World Cup, because Chen Meng lost to Sun Yingsha in the semifinals, and Wang Manyu successfully advanced to the finals, this also led to the fact that in the Paris Olympics singles selection competition, Chen Meng has been more than 1500 points behind Wang Manyu, and is already in a disadvantageous position in the Paris Olympics singles competition!
In this Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu are in the second half of the same zone, especially Chen Meng, who has to face Japan's main players one after another! It was originally very unfavorable to Chen Meng!
As a result, no one expected that Wang Manyu was unexpectedly out of the second round against India's Batra, which also gave Chen Meng a good opportunity, as long as Chen Meng can hold the lower half of the zone and meet his teammates in the finals, Chen Meng can get another Olympic singles quota!
Under the huge pressure, Chen Meng withstood the pressure and successively defeated Miyu Hirano, Miwa Zhang and Hina Hayata, and successfully met Sun Yingsha in the finals!
In this way, no matter whether Chen Meng can defeat Sun Yingsha in the final to win the championship, Chen Meng has already locked another singles qualification for the Paris Olympics in advance!
Here, I would like to congratulate Chen Meng on qualifying for the singles of the Paris Olympics, and at the same time feel very sorry for Wang Manyu!
But there is no way, competitive sports are so cruel!