On the evening of May 11, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam ushered in the final battle of women's singles, the two Olympic champions of national table tennis Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng met at the top again, and the result was that Sun Yingsha, who had a clear advantage in the recent winning rate, lost in 6 games, Chen Meng won the championship 4-2, and won the four main forces of China and Japan, Miyu Hirano, Miwa Zhangmoto, Hina Hayata, and Sun Yingsha to the top, and staged the return of the king.
It is worth mentioning that after this competition, the Olympic selection of the national table tennis women's singles event officially ended, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng have been firmly in the top two of the team's standings, according to the regulations of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, they will get the singles qualification for the Paris Olympics, and look forward to the two of them meeting again in the finals in the "big test" in the near future! See below for a detailed breakdown of the battle.
Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng are the core and main players of the national table tennis women's team, and they are also the women's singles finalists of the last Tokyo Olympics.
In the first few rounds of competition, Sun Yingsha defeated Wang Yidi, Qian Tianyi, Tian Zhixi and others to advance, while Chen Meng was advancing all the way to the outside war, defeating the Japanese team's three main Paris Olympic forces Hirano Miyu, Zhang Benmeihe, and Hina Hayada - both of them are in good shape, although Sun Yingsha has been winning Chen Meng recently, but no one dares to guarantee that the result will not be reversed this time.
After the start of the first game, because the two were too familiar, they omitted the tentative link, and soon launched a fierce attack, as a veteran, Chen Meng refused to be conservative, and even more active than Sun Yingsha in terms of preemptively getting started, but there were more mistakes in the second half, and the effect was not good after forcing the force, and Sun Yingsha gradually played a higher quality and more stable curveball threat, and then won the first place 11-6.
In the second game, Chen Meng still fought very fiercely, receiving the ball as much as possible from the table began to twist and pull, flip to form a topspin hold, and then decisively played with the young man, and soon took the lead, and then got as many as 6 game points, and finally successfully pulled back a city with 11-5, and the two returned to the same running line.
In the third game, Sun Yingsha still played a little conservatively, and as a result, she was constantly broken by her senior sister, but she did not mess up because of this, and soon calmly tied the score, but Chen Meng quickly regained the initiative on the court, and won 11-8.
In the fourth game, Sun Yingsha's awareness of taking the initiative to exert force improved, but Chen Meng played more actively, but then the lead was chased by points, so he called a timeout at 7-5 to adjust. After returning to the game, Sun Yingsha completely tied the score, but still failed to withstand Chen Meng's strong attack in the later stage, and was won again by the opponent 11-9, so the big score fell behind 1-3 and was forced into a desperate situation.
In the fifth game, Sun Yingsha had no way out, this time she suppressed Chen Meng and took the lead, although Chen Meng still fought back tenaciously, but Sun Yingsha won 11-6, but in the sixth game, Chen Meng broke through Sun Yingsha's defense again, and finally ended the battle 11-8, thus defeating her teammates 4-2 and winning the women's singles championship.
As mentioned earlier, in this competition, Chen Meng won against Japan's strong opponents, defeating Miyu Hirano 3-0, Miwa Zhangmoto 4-1, and Hina Hayada 4-0.
Finally, I would like to congratulate the two national table tennis players who did not lose the foreign war, and look forward to them being able to shine in the Paris Olympics!