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China won 5 crowns, 3-0, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu won the championship, and Miwa Zhang and Miyu Hirano were swept

author:All-round sports willow

On May 13, Beijing time, the 2024 WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam came to a successful conclusion, with the Chinese team winning all 5 championships and the Japanese team losing 0 championships. Among them, in the women's doubles final, the No. 1 seeds Chen Meng/Wang Manyu won the championship against Tian Zhixi/Shen Yubin, winning the second championship for the Chinese team after the opening of the tournament.

China won 5 crowns, 3-0, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu won the championship, and Miwa Zhang and Miyu Hirano were swept

The 2024 WTT Saudi Grand Slam is a very high-profile event. In this competition, a total of 6 Chinese women's table tennis players participated, namely: Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Chen Xingtong, and Qian Tianyi. The Japanese women's table tennis sent players such as Hina Hayata, Miu Hirano, Miwa Zhangmoto, and Misei Ito to participate.

In Women's Doubles, the Chinese team consists of Chen Meng/Wang Manyu, the former being the No.1 seeds, and Chen Xingtong, who are the favourites to win the tournament as the No.1 seeds, and the latter as a wildcard. In Japan, the women's doubles competition was played by Miwa Zhangmoto/Miu Hirano.

In the first match, Japan's Miwa Zhangmoto/Miu Hirano were eliminated from the tournament, and they had a sluggish first round in the Women's Doubles, losing 1-3 to the multinational pair of Liu Yangzi/Wu Yonglin.

China won 5 crowns, 3-0, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu won the championship, and Miwa Zhang and Miyu Hirano were swept
China won 5 crowns, 3-0, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu won the championship, and Miwa Zhang and Miyu Hirano were swept

In the women's doubles 1/8 finals, Chen Meng/Wang Manyu, as the favorites to win the championship, got off to a good start with a 3-0 victory over Samara/Dragoman, of which the third game hit an 11-2 disparity score, and the scores of the three games of the whole game were: 11-5, 11-6, 11-2.

In the quarterfinals, Chen Meng/Wang Manyu narrowly defeated teammates Chen Xingtong/Wang Yidi 3-2 to advance to the semifinals. In other matches, the multinational pair Liu Yangzi/Wu Yonglin reversed another multinational pair, Balazova/Matlova, 3-2; The multinational pair of Bayo/Kukulova eliminated Sweden's Bergstrom/Carlberg 3-1. In addition, South Korea's Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin also reached the semi-finals.

China won 5 crowns, 3-0, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu won the championship, and Miwa Zhang and Miyu Hirano were swept
China won 5 crowns, 3-0, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu won the championship, and Miwa Zhang and Miyu Hirano were swept
China won 5 crowns, 3-0, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu won the championship, and Miwa Zhang and Miyu Hirano were swept

In the Women's Doubles semi-finals, Chen Meng/Wang Manyu defeated Bayo/Kukulova 3-1 to advance to the final, and Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin defeated Liu Yangzi/Wu Yonglin 3-0 to advance to the final. In the championship match, Chen Meng/Wang Manyu lost three games in straight sets, defeated Tian Zhixi/Shen Yubin 3-0 to win the women's doubles championship, and locked the second championship for the Chinese team after the opening match.

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