On October 4, the 2024 WTT China Grand Slam ended with daytime matches. After the mixed doubles championship was scheduled yesterday, the national table tennis locked the men's doubles and women's doubles champions and runners-up in advance today, and has won the "three crowns". Lin Shidong and Ma Long took the lead in advancing to the men's singles semifinals, and Chen Xingtong, Wang Manyu and Fan Siqi successively advanced to the women's singles semifinals. Among them, Fan Siqi refused to reverse and narrowly defeated Zheng Yijing 4-3.
1. In the first women's doubles semifinals, Wang Yidi/Sun Yingsha defeated the top seeds Zheng Yijing/Li Yuzhen 3-0 and advanced to the final. The strength of the national table tennis combination is significantly stronger than that of the opponent, and the key points were not scored in the three games. Since the other half of the women's doubles is the meeting of two pairs of national table tennis combinations, the women's doubles national table tennis has locked the champion and runner-up in advance.
Chen Xingtong/Qian Tianyi, the partner of "one left and one right", defeated the "post-04" combination Chen Yi/Xu Yi 3-0 and locked another place in the finals. Wang Yidi/Sun Yingsha and Chen Xingtong/Qian Tianyi, will meet in the finals.
2. This men's doubles semi-final is also about whether the national table tennis can lock the championship in advance. Liang Jingkun/Wang Chuqin eliminated the only foreign association combination in the semi-finals, the Lebrun brothers of France, 3-0, with a score of 11-3, 11-9, 13-11 in three sets, and the more difficult it became, fortunately, the national table tennis combination seized the key point at the end of the game and won in straight sets, without giving the opponent a chance to fight back. The other half of the men's doubles is also two pairs of national table tennis pairs competing for another final spot, and since then, the national table tennis has once again locked the men's doubles championship and runner-up in advance.
3. In the first two men's singles 1/4 finals, Lin Shidong defeated Anders · Linde 4-0, and Ma Long was still in great shape, sweeping Hugo · Calderano 4-0 and advancing to the semifinals.
4. In the first three women's singles 1/4 finals, Chen Xingtong defeated Korea chipping veteran Seo Hyo-won 4-0. He Zhuojia and Wang Manyu competed for a place in the top 4, and only in the first game, the two sides were evenly matched, and He Zhuojia won the first game 13-11. But after that, Wang Manyu gradually controlled the rhythm of the game, won four games in a row, and won 4-1. Chen Xingtong and Wang Manyu will compete for a place in the final of the lower half of the region.
The contest between Fan Siqi and Zheng Yijing originally showed their advantages at the beginning, winning three games in a row, and victory was in sight. But in the fourth game, she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, she underestimated Zheng Yijing's ability to fight back, and Wang Xiaotong was also reversed by her in the last round. Zheng Yijing had been forced into a corner, Fan Siqi gave her space and time to adjust, Zheng Yijing almost all of Taiwan's forehand fights, and rarely made mistakes, so she won three games in a row 11-4, 11-5, 11-7, dragging the game into a deciding game. Fan Siqi couldn't control the current situation, and there was even a direct error on the serve in the last ball of the sixth game, which shows how nervous he was. In the deciding game, Zheng Yijing's state dropped after three rounds of highlight performances; Fan Siqi, on the other hand, gradually took the initiative in the forehand attack, and finally locked up the victory with 11-4, and advanced thrillingly with a big score of 4-3. Fan Siqi broke through from the qualifying round and went all the way to the semifinals, becoming the "biggest dark horse" in women's singles.