The WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam entered its seventh day of competition yesterday, with Ma Long/Wang Chuqin and Chen Meng/Wang Manyu winning the men's and women's doubles titles respectively, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha in the women's singles final, and Wang Chuqin and Francesca competing for the men's singles title. 1. Ma Long/Wang Chuqin, Chen Meng/Wang Manyu won the men's and women's doubles championships
"I think I'm very happy to win the championship with Ma Long, because it was Ma Long who led me to win my first individual World Championships, and I hope we can have more opportunities to work together!" "This is also the first time that Wang Chuqin and I have won the WTT Grand Slam championship, we have lost in the final a few times before, I am very happy, the first time we cooperated five years ago, it felt like I took him with me, and five years later he took me, it is still too early to celebrate, I hope to come step by step!"
This is Wang Chuqin/Ma Long's testimonial at the scene after winning the championship, in the men's doubles final of the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam last night, Ma Long/Wang Chuqin played well and swept the Japanese combination Hayasuke Togami / Shinozuka Daito in three straight games, winning the men's doubles championship, which is also Ma Long won the Grand Slam doubles championship again after the Singapore Grand Slam, talking about the difference between the two championships, Ma Long bluntly said that the main thing is that his partner was changed from Lin Gaoyuan to Wang Chuqin, "First of all, the people who cooperate are different, And the last time the opponents in the final were Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong, we were downwind at that time, and we were more to fight. This time Wang Chuqin and I, we have won the World Championships, but we have not won some open championships and WTT series yet, so this time we also fought hard, and we mobilized very well from the beginning. ”
However, when summarizing their own performance in the Saudi Grand Slam, the Dragons were not satisfied with their performance in singles prematurely, "Indeed, in terms of doubles, I won the doubles championship this time, whether it is now or against our future matches, I feel that my confidence has improved a lot, and of course there are many things to summarize in the technical and tactical aspects." The singles lost to Zhang Yuzhen in the second round this time, and the performance was indeed unsatisfactory, and it needs to be further summarized. ”
In the previous women's doubles final, Chen Meng/Wang Manyu took less than 24 minutes to defeat the South Korean pair Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin 3-0 cleanly to win the women's doubles championship.
2, WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam men's singles final Wang Chuqin vs. Francesca, the national table tennis women's team locked the women's singles championship in advance WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam is coming to an end, in the women's singles semifinals last night Chen Meng played well 4-0 swept Japan's Hina Hayata, the first to break into the women's singles final, in this year's Busan World Table Tennis Championships women's team finals, Chen Meng had lost to Hina Hayata, so this semi-final Chen Meng is also determined to win, "I am very much looking forward to this showdown with Hayada today, so I also lost in the Busan team competition" This game, so I have been preparing for this game, of course, Hayata's overall ability and strength are indeed in the middle of us now, and the game can be won in the end, or the whole coaching team has analyzed it for me, the pre-game preparation is very detailed, and I should have prepared from every link. In the third game, Chen Meng chased 8 points in a row when he fell behind 0-5 and reversed 12:10.
In three consecutive rounds, Chen Meng has eliminated Miu Hirano, Miwa Zhangmoto and Hina Hayata, three Olympic athletes in Paris, Japan, looking forward to the finals, Chen Meng said to enjoy the final process, "First of all, it is not easy, very tormenting, in fact, the main task for me is not to lose the foreign war, in my own line can fight out, can hold, so in the final I hope to enjoy the Saudi Grand Slam finals to the fullest." In the other women's singles semifinals, Sun Yingsha defeated teammate Wang Yidi 4-1 and met Chen Meng in the final, Sun Yingsha said after the game, "Today's semi-finals and Wang Yidi played very well, maybe they entered the state earlier, leading 2-0, but from the beginning of the third game, Wang Yidi also tried to make some changes in skills and tactics, and the quality of the confrontation in the next few rounds was also very strong, and we also showed the best level!" ”
In the subsequent men's singles semifinals, Wang Chuqin defeated his teammate Lin Shidong 4-3 in seven games and advanced to the men's singles final after losing two games in the unfavorable situation, but after the game, Wang Chuqin bluntly said that he was quite passive at the beginning, and falling behind 0-2 was a complete cure of his slightly anxious mentality, "I was very embarrassed when this ball came up, and I was still a little anxious, but after losing the second game, the big score in the third game was behind, and my heart was put down, and I tried to play point by point, instead of controlling the situation, In this way, this mentality slowly allows me to see hope. ”
At the same time, Wang Chuqin praised the performance of his teammate Lin Shidong, "Lin Shidong's state, the strength and impact he has now, he has the ability to beat any player in the world, the quality of his return is very strong, I think he is the most advanced technical and tactical system in the world." In the other men's singles semi-finals, Germany's Francesca also fought fiercely in seven games, narrowly defeating South Korea's Zhang Yuzhen 4-3 to enter the final. Image Credit: WTT