In the early morning of October 30, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Tunisia Challenge broke out again! The top 2 seeded players in the men's and women's singles have all been wiped out, and the German Chinese famous Qiu Dang swept through the promotion and is about to compete with Swedish rising star Carlberg for the men's singles championship; the women's singles Polkanova and Diaz are out, and the Czech Hannah and Monaco Chinese famous Yang Xiaoxin will meet in the final.
It is worth mentioning that Qiu Dang is one of the few direct shooters in the current table tennis world, and his father is the ace coach of the Japanese team, who has coached Zhang Benzhihe, Mizutani Hayabusa, and Niwa Takashi, and is still assisting Ishikawa Yoshinori. Qiu Dang was only selected for the World Table Tennis Championships not long ago, and his progress in recent years has been very great, and he must have received his father's guidance in normal times, which is really an opponent worth paying attention to!
The lineup of this Tunisian tournament was originally very general, and the top masters were almost absent, but the top 2 athletes in men's and women's singles were still small and famous, of which the top seed in the men's singles was the German star Francesca, who had defeated Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan; the second seed Nigerian player Aruna also won Pol and Zhuang Zhiyuan, reaching the Olympic men's singles quarterfinals.
The number one seed in the women's singles is Polkanova of Austria, the ranking is OK, and it is also the number one in Europe; the second seed is Diaz of Puerto Rico, she is the champion of the Americas, who has come to China to receive personal guidance from Liu Guoliang, is Sun Yingsha's good girlfriend, and belongs to the outstanding existence among the female table tennis players in this Tunisian competition.
However, after the start of the match, Francesca, who was generally considered to be the strongest and the only national table tennis rival, took the lead and lost to Croatia's Philippe in the quarterfinals; in the subsequent semi-final battle, the top 2 seeded players in singles were completely wiped out, as follows:
Aruna fought in 7 sets and was eliminated 4-3 by Sweden's Karlberg; Polkanova lost 2-4 to Czech Hannah; Diaz and Yang Xiaoxin also played 7 sets, and finally lost 3-4. As for Philippe, who defeated Francesca, he was not a rival to the Qiu Party at all, and he lost 0-4 and also stopped in the top 4 position.
Before the semi-finals, India's table tennis star GananaSekaran (who defeated Wang Chuqin, Zhang Benzhihe) also broke into the sand and was swept by Qiu Dang 3-0; the men's doubles runner-up of the World Table Tennis Championships from Romania, Jonescu, was also shaved and lost to Carlberg 0-3 - it seems that the momentum of young European players is good!
At present, the mixed doubles champion of the Tunisian competition has been born, that is, the fourth place in the Tokyo Olympic Games, Lebéson/Yuan Jiannan from France. On the evening of October 30, the battle for all events will be over, so who can win the other championships? Let's wait and see!