On May 14, Beijing time, with the successful conclusion of the 2024 WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, the WTT Star Challenge Ljubljana is about to start. The WTT World Table Tennis Federation has given a list of the top five seeded players, among them, the top three seeded players in women's singles are Hina Hayata, Shin Yubin, and Miwa Zhangmoto.
The just-concluded 2024 WTT Saudi Grand Slam is a very high-standard 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. In terms of Japanese women's table tennis, players such as Hina Hayata, Miu Hirano, Miwa Zhangmoto, Miyu Kihara, and Misei Ito were sent to participate in the competition.
In this competition, the Olympic double champion "Big Dream" Chen Meng became the biggest winner, she defeated Miu Hirano, Zhang Benmei and the three main Japanese women's table tennis players in a row, and reached the women's singles final, with the scores of three games: 3-0, 4-1, 4-0. In the end, Chen Meng met with the world's No. 1 "Little Devil" Sun Yingsha in the women's singles final and defeated the opponent 4-2 to win the women's singles championship.
After the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, the 2024 WTT Star Challenge Ljubljana will start from June 11 to 16, and the Chinese players did not sign up for the competition, but attracted three Japanese players in the top 10 in the world, Hina Hayata, Shin Yubin and Miwa Zhangmoto.
In the recent Macau World Cup, the young Zhang Benmei and once reached the semifinals, showing a very strong upward momentum. But in the Saudi Grand Slam women's singles 1/8 finals, she lost to Chen Meng 1-4. Prior to that, Miu Hirano lost 0-3 to Chen Meng.
In the women's singles semifinals, Chen Meng defeated her opponent 4-0 in four straight games in a match with Japan's first sister Hina Hayada and advanced to the finals. And in the subsequent championship battle, he defeated Sun Yingsha 4-2 to win the championship. In the upcoming Ljubljana station, when the Chinese women's players did not participate, who will win the championship with Hina Hayata, Shin Yubin, and Misei Ito?