Chen Meng won the women's singles championship in the Saudi Grand Slam tournament, and many fans said after the game that it was Sun Yingsha who conceded the ball, and she didn't play well at all. They only saw Sun Yingsha shaking her head during the game and thought that Sun Yingsha didn't do her best, in fact, the fans who watched the game had more right to speak. Chen Meng showed the pertinence of tactics in the game, after being disrupted by Sun Yingsha's continuous splitting of the middle ball in the first round, from the second round of the game, Chen Meng was also receiving the serve and splitting long, and the backhand plus spin limited Sun Yingsha's backhand fast attack.
Sun Yingsha has also been thinking of ways to face Chen Meng's tactical changes, and Sun Yingsha's near-platform fast attack on the backhand in the past can indeed limit Chen Meng. This time, Chen Meng kept adding a backhand and spinning, usually the most restrained speed of rotation, which is really incomprehensible. The reason why Wang Manyu has an advantage over Japanese table tennis players is that her spin limits the speed of Japanese table tennis players.
In fact, Sun Yingsha's performance in this game was quite good, when the backhand was limited by Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha used her flexible pace to connect and prevent Chen Meng's many strong attacks. Chen Meng's defense in COSCO has an advantage in itself, but she did not limit Sun Yingsha in COSCO in this game.
Sun Yingsha also strengthened the protection of her forehand, and the two sides can be said to be evenly matched in the middle and far platform. Chen Meng still formed a real advantage in the service and extension link in this game, and Sun Yingsha fell into passivity in the service link in the face of Chen Mengfa's forehand short ball. Once the receiving link falls into passivity, then Chen Meng will take the initiative to suppress in the first three boards, even if it is up to the holding of the ball, it is Chen Meng who is the active offensive side, and Sun Yingsha has always been in a defensive state.
Especially in the sixth game, Chen Meng took two consecutive forehand and backhand edge balls while leading 7-4, directly expanding the score to 9-4, which really disrupted Sun Yingsha's offensive rhythm. Many fans think that Chen Meng's victory has an element of luck, but luck itself is part of strength.
Throughout the game, Chen Meng has always taken the initiative in attacking, and Sun Yingsha has been in a state of defensive counterattack, which shows that Chen Meng's style of play is changing. In the past, Chen Meng was in a defensive state, but now Chen Meng's offensive state is more, which shows that her skills have made great progress. She really didn't have the upper hand in the backhand competition with Sun Yingsha before, isn't the reason why she has improved this time is because of hard training? If you don't improve, can you win three main Japanese table tennis players in a row?
Chen Meng was defeated twice in a row by Wang Manyu in March, and since then Chen Meng has been making changes. Because she understands that if she wants to compete for the Olympic spot, she must show better results. A player will only be reflected in action after he has improved his thinking.
In order to prepare for the Saudi Grand Slam tournament, Chen Meng worked physical fitness and endurance. And it took less than ten minutes in the 3,000-meter run, and the fans couldn't see the effort behind the runners. After the game, Chen Meng also made a special mention of the sideline ball in an interview, telling fans that there are some uncertainties in the game itself, and whoever wins the championship may be possible.
Chen Meng's performance this time is indeed better, and Chen Meng is indeed more motivated to win. Of course, Sun Yingsha also wants to win the championship, and winning the runner-up this time is also an incentive for Sun Yingsha. Because the competition in this Olympic Games is more intense, every competitor has the possibility of winning the championship as long as they pass targeted training.
Chen Meng has not won the championship for more than two years, and Chen Meng has also had a downturn in the past two years. But as the Olympics approached, Chen Meng's resurgence at this point in time was somewhat beyond the imagination of fans, because she was defeated by Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha more times this Olympic cycle.
As a veteran, whether Chen Meng can continue this good form into the Olympic Games in July remains to be tested. But this time in Saudi Arabia, Chen Meng is in the best form of any female player, and her adaptability is significantly different from before.
This time, Sun Yingsha was relatively passive in the first three boards, but in fact, she also put forward higher requirements for Sun Yingsha. Although Sun Yingsha's service wheel has also changed, Chen Meng's tactical pertinence in the service extension link is indeed more in place, which can be converted into effective scores. The current women's table tennis technology is changing, and Sun Yingsha must also keep up with the pace of this technology.
Because all the tactical changes of the players are based on the advancement of technology, if Sun Yingsha can twist and pull in the service link in this game, I believe the suspense of the game will be higher. The process of the player's game is the process of restriction and counter-limiting, and Chen Meng made many mistakes in the first three boards before.
However, this time Chen Meng's stability in the first three boards has improved a lot, Sun Yingsha's forehand sideways attack vigorously returned the ball, and Chen Meng was directly backhanded with a forehand many times. Chen Meng is more accustomed to Sun Yingsha's hitting line, because she knows that Sun Yingsha mainly attacks her middle and backhand.
Chen Meng strengthened the sideways attack in the middle, and in the next few games, Chen Meng saw Sun Yingsha return the ball to the middle, and sometimes directly pulled Sun Yingsha's forehand backhand, but made Sun Yingsha lose her position. This is the adaptability of tactics, in fact, Sun Yingsha can play more table ball control.
The effect will actually be better through short ball control, of course, this requires Sun Yingsha to practice hard in the future. So the tactical value of this final was so high for both fighters that Hina Hayada watched the match live, attracting the attention of her rivals. So this game was not Sun Yingsha's handicap, Chen Meng's strength did rise.