In the early morning of August 2, Beijing time, the singles semifinals of the table tennis event of the Paris Olympics were released! In men's singles, Fan Zhendong defeated Japan's Tomokazu Zhangmoto 4-3; In women's singles, Sun Yingsha defeated Chinese Taipei's Zheng Yijing 4-0 and Chen Meng defeated Austria's Polkanova 4-0. In the semi-finals, Fan Zhendong faced the host France's F-Lebrun, Sun Yingsha faced Japan's Hina Hayata, and Chen Meng faced Korea's Shin Yubin.
The first Women's Singles quarter-final was between defending champion Chen Meng of national table tennis and Polkanova of Austria. Chen Meng lost four games in straight games, 11-5, 11-3, 11-0, 11-8, and defeated his opponent with a big score of 4-0 and advanced to the semifinals first. In the semifinals, Chen Meng will face Shin Yubin of Korea. Shin Yubin faced Japan's Miu Hirano in the quarterfinals, she won three games 11-4, 11-7, 11-5, and then was chased by Miu Hirano 11-7, 11-8, 11-9 in three consecutive games, and the tiebreaker was won 13-11 after falling behind 9-10, and defeated Miu Hirano 4-3 to advance to the semifinals. After the game, Shin Yubin cried with joy, and Miyu Hirano cried with regret.
In the upper half of the women's singles, the top seed Sun Yingsha of national table tennis faced off against Zheng Yijing of Chinese Taipei, and in the game, Sun Yingsha lost four games in straight sets and won 4-0. Except for the third game, which scored 19-17, the other three games were 11-7, 11-4, and 11-5. Japan's Hina Hayada faced North Korea's Bian Songjing and fought hard for seven games to win 4-3, 11-5, 11-5, 13-15, 11-8, 9-11, 4-11, 11-6.
In the men's singles, in the lower half, the national table tennis men's Miao Fan Zhendong played against Japan's Tomokazu Zhangmoto. After the start of the game, Fan Zhendong first lost two games in a row, and then won two games in a row to tie it, and he lost again in the key fifth game, and he was forced into a desperate situation to win the last two games in a row, thus winning 4-3 thrillingly. The scores in seven games were: 2-11, 9-11, 11-4, 11-7, 4-11, 11-7, 11-7. In the semifinals, Fan Zhendong will face the host country's Felix · Lebrun. F. · Lebrun defeated Chinese Taipei's Lin Yunru 4-3 11-7, 7-11, 11-8, 4-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-6 to advance to the semifinals.
In the first two semi-finals, fourth seed Hugo · Calladno defeated Korea's Jang Woo-jin 4-0, 11-4, 11-7, 11-5, 11-6. Sweden's Moregard, who had previously eliminated his brother Wang Chuqin, faced Egypt's Assal, and finally won 4-1, with a score of 11-7, 6-11, 14-12, 14-12, 11-2.