On May 11, Beijing time, the 2024 Table Tennis Saudi Arabia Grand Slam ushered in the final decisive battle, and the final women's singles champion was born, Chen Meng defeated Sun Yingsha 4-2, and defeated Sun Yingsha again after a year, which was not easy for Chen Meng.
After the Tokyo Olympics, his form fluctuated, and it was even more difficult to achieve a Grand Slam, and he lost to Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha in the last two World Table Tennis Championships.
Not only the World Table Tennis Championships, but also lost to them many times in ordinary events, and sometimes lost some foreign wars.
At present, the world ranking is only fourth, indicating that the results of the past year are not very ideal, many times to the semi-finals, finals, but with the championship has always been missed, Saudi Arabia Grand Slam finally broke the championship drought, singles championship has not been won for two years.
It should be said that the championship came very timely, on the one hand, he won the Olympic reward of national table tennis with 3000 points, which is enough to surpass Wang Manyu's points, even if Wang Manyu was not deducted 3000 points, Chen Meng can still surpass Wang Manyu again with the points of this championship, and now wait for the official announcement that Chen Meng has won the singles quota for the Paris Olympics.
A well-deserved champion, Chen Meng's state has been really good recently, and his results have been very stable, including revenge against Hina Hayata, which shows that Chen Meng's strength is still top-notch.
After the game, Chen Meng said in an interview that he did not expect to win the championship, Saudi Arabia is an unforgettable journey, the host asked the secret of winning, and the audience shouted to wipe the side, Chen Meng first looked at the audience.
Chen Meng immediately responded with high emotional intelligence: Yes, many viewers said that the secret of my victory was to wipe the edge, indeed I was very lucky today, it is normal to win or lose in competitive sports, I hope everyone looks at it rationally.
Chen Meng's ability to defeat the world's No. 1 Sun Yingsha has three main factors
First, a successful serve
In this competition, Chen Meng's serve is very successful, there are many changes in the serve, the combination of length and shortness, the change of the landing point, the change of rotation, including the change of the position, in fact, Chen Meng has a set of serving methods, unlike Ito's various fancy serving routines, but it is very practical, the essence lies in the change, basically every ball is in Chen Meng's expectations, the last game with Hayata, let her eat the serve many times in the extension, and try various receiving methods have never had a good effect.
Second, changeable hair extensions
In this game, Chen Meng has all kinds of means in the hair extension, obviously more abundant than before, there are active twisting, rubbing, skimming, pushing, splitting, etc., the most important thing is to judge the opponent's serve rotation very well, the opponent is on the service wheel, Chen Meng will never be down, as long as he can hold the racket, his own service wheel has an advantage, it is enough to be able to win the game.
In this competition, Chen Meng obviously enriched his hair extensions, which will inevitably be a major factor in helping to win, and the use is very reasonable, and there are very few direct serves.
Third, the attack is active and stable
Chen Meng benefited from the successful serve, bringing the third board to attack, this simple tactic, Chen Meng did a very good job, can always get such an opportunity, the third board of the attack line and landing point have changed, and the grab is very active, the slightest opportunity to attack immediately, the hit rate is very high, but also reflects the high quality of Chen Meng's veneer. In the back, the performance is also very stable, and this link is not lost to Sun Yingsha.
There are fewer overall mistakes, less than Sun Yingsha, and the play is more stable, Sun Yingsha made more mistakes in this game, and stood a little behind, perhaps after Chen Meng's offensive pressure, she did not handle the hair extensions very well, and even a little conservative.