After winning the women's singles crown in the WTT China Grand Slam, Sun Yingsha's points reached 10,800 points, becoming the first WTT player to break 10,000 points, and then Shasha followed the team to Astana in Kazakhstan to usher in the upcoming Asian Championships. Perhaps because she was really tired, Sun Yingsha took the lead in the first singles in the Chinese women's team's 1/4 finals against the North Korean team, but was beaten by Kim Qinying in three games in a row and lost the first singles victory.
Although the 23-year-old Kim Qinying is a mixed doubles silver medalist at the Paris Olympics, when it comes to singles rankings, because he rarely participates in WTT events, he really can't be ranked. However, this mysterious backhand long rubber monster player from the mysterious division brought a lot of trouble to Sasha, and Sasha played 13-11 in the first game to win hard, and only scored 2 points in the second game and was defeated, and then failed to bite the score, and the army was defeated.
In fact, as early as when Sasha first arrived in Astana, attentive fans found that her face was full of exhaustion, even as a post-00 generation, the intensive event arrangement and several tasks made Sasha physically and mentally exhausted. Coincidentally, in the men's team event that started earlier, Wang Chuqin, the world No. 1 in men's singles, also lost to the 14-year-old Iran teenager Benjamin, which shows that the first singles of the national table tennis men's and women's teams are suffering from the fatigue caused by the intensive schedule.
After all, she has not lost to a player in the association for a long time, and she has just achieved the feat of WTT points breaking 10,000, which is the first miracle that a player can do after the ITTF applies the new world ranking rules in 2022, but she never thought that it would become a shackle that restricts Sasha's performance, which makes her bear additional psychological pressure.
On the one hand, Sasha needs to adjust her mentality and start again, winning or losing is a common thing, and losing a game is not terrible, not to mention the team competition, everyone still believes that she is the "little devil" who can rest assured and guard half of the area. On the other hand, it is indeed time for the national table tennis coaching staff to reduce the burden on Sun Yingsha and let her rest. Sasha's lack of an Olympic singles champion to make it a Grand Slam makes her less active and more focused on singles? In the next Los Angeles Olympic cycle, Sasha is no longer young, and it is time for her to make her dream come true.