The WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam came to an end, and the Chinese team successfully held the championship and won all five championships despite many upsets in the first half of the competition, including Wang Chuqin won 3 championships and Chen Meng won 2 championships.
In the case of Wang Manyu's upset in the early stage, Chen Meng guarded the lower half alone, and from the top 8, he killed 3 Japanese Olympians in a row, making Chen Meng famous again and reaching the peak.
After entering the finals, Chen Meng played against Sun Yingsha, who is ranked No. 1 in the world women's singles, Sun Yingsha is in a brave state throughout the Olympic cycle, as long as she enters the finals, she can basically win the championship, and she has defeated Wang Manyu twice in a row in the Incheon Championship and the Macau World Cup Finals, so for Chen Meng, the finals against Sun Yingsha is the biggest test.
At the beginning of the women's singles final, Chen Meng won three games in a row after losing one game first, took the lead in getting the match point, Sun Yingsha won the fifth game, and Chen Meng played steadily in the sixth game, and finally defeated Sun Yingsha with a big score of 4-2 and won the first international singles championship in 2024.
Chen Meng's double crown in the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam this time is a great comfort for Chen Meng, and it is very likely to qualify for the Olympic women's singles competition.
As the women's singles champion, Chen Meng was interviewed by the media for the first time after winning the championship, but on the way to the interview, the fans shouted "wipe the edge", why is this?
In the sixth game between Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng had several net wipes and edge balls in the holding stage, in a highly tense game such as table tennis, each athlete's spirit is highly nervous, and it is inevitable to wipe the net and wipe the edges, but in the eyes of some "irrational" fans, it has become the key to Sun Yingsha's loss, and even complained that Chen Meng's victory this time was all due to luck.
Looking at the whole game, Chen Meng's state and performance are perfect, Chen Meng's forehand is even more insolvable, and Sun Yingsha has no power to parry, even if there are no these "lucky balloons", according to Chen Meng's state that day, it is not difficult for anyone to come.
Liu Guoliang has said before that the current strength of the women's table tennis team is not much different, and who can win the game depends on the performance and state on the spot! Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng are both very smart athletes, so Chen Meng's victory this time has nothing to do with these "balloons"!
Of course, this is not the first time that Sun Yingsha's "fans" have done something, some time ago at the Singapore Grand Slam, Sun Yingsha and national table tennis player Chen Xingtong met in advance in the round of 16, but Sun Yingsha was not in good shape that day and was eliminated by Chen Xingtong in the round of 16.
After the game, the overwhelming scolding on the Internet pointed to Chen Xingtong, also because of a few edge balls, he even nicknamed the athlete "Sister Rub", which was very disrespectful.
In the end, the editor just wants to say that Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, no matter who wins the championship, they are all winning glory for the country, as the representative of women's table tennis that year, the honor of the two does not need to be repeated too much, Sun Yingsha's fans attack another national table tennis member so irrationally, they can only recruit Sun Yingsha, and even disrupt Sun Yingsha's training rhythm and mentality.
If you only like one person and not because of sports, then please don't denigrate the efforts of any athlete, and don't bring the "fan circle culture" to the sports circle!