The German girl group narrowly defeated South Korea
In the 1/4 final of the table tennis women's team, the runner-up German women's team of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games faced the Korean women's team led by Tian Zhixi, the two sides fought for 5 rounds, with the two Major Chinese 38-year-old veteran Han Ying's singles 2 points and Shan Xiaona 1 point singles, the German women's team finally defeated the Korean women's team with equal strength, and finally reached the semifinals, following the Rio Olympic Games is expected to fight again in Chinese women's table tennis.
The German women's table tennis team continued the lineup that won the women's team runner-up at the last Rio Olympic Games, and this year once again sent 38-year-old chipper Han Ying and straight board veteran Shan Xiaona, plus Solja, who had just won the women's singles championship at the European Championships. With the pressure of the two major Chinese female players, the German women's table tennis team faced the world's strongest team South Korea, did not fall behind, the Korean women's team in addition to Tian Zhixi, Choi Hyo-joo and Shin Yubin did not have much experience in the competition, becoming a breakthrough for the German team to get points.
In the first set, the Korean women's doubles was played by Tian Zhixi/Shen Yubin, and Germany could only be paired by Shan Xiaona and Solja because Han Ying was cutting the ball. Tian Zhixi and Shen Yubin are only before the Olympic Games began to formally match, only for the Olympic Games specially crafted combination, the two in the connection speed faster, play more fluently, Solja's movement is slower, is the softest doubles strength in this set. In the end, the South Korean duo defeated their opponents 3-2 (9-11/11-8/6-11/11-11/11-6/11-3) to score one point first.
In the second set, Germany's Han Ying as a single, against South Korea's Chinese Choi Hyo-joo, this game Choi Hyo-joo's pull ball shortcomings were completely exposed, her forehand pull ball did not kill the board, always soft and weak, did not kill Han Ying, but Han Ying used the rotation landing point change, cut Cui Xiaozhu at a loss, and finally Han Ying went down 3 consecutive sets to 11-3, 11-3, 11-8 easily for the German team to pull the big score into 1-1.
In the third set, Tian Zhixi appeared again to meet the European Championship women's singles champion Solja, this game Tian Zhixi gave full play to the characteristics of comprehensive technology without loopholes, in the first three boards of the competition and stalemate process of full dominance, Solja's defense has obvious loopholes, and finally Tian Zhixi won 11-6, 13-11, 11-3, and the Korean women's team also got the match point.
In the fourth set, The German sister Han Ying once again played the role of a Korean killer, she faced the Korean young general Shen Yubin, came up with the same method against Cui Xiaozhu, because Shen Yubin's forehand could not play the violent pull ball like Sun Yingsha, the threat to Han Ying was not large, so that Han Ying was firmly pulled, not wrong. In the end, Han Ying equalized again for the German women's team with 11-6, 10-12, 11-6, 11-9.
The fifth set of the contest to determine the outcome of the battle between the two Chinese, by the German Shan Xiaona against South Korea's Choi Hyo-joo, Shan Xiaona although the straight board is more outdated, but the competition experience is more, although the opponent knows her backhand weakness, but she can still insist on pulling up sideways, backhand push protection, straight down 3 sets to 11-6, 11-8, 11-9 easy to win Cui Xiaozhu, for the German women's team to lay the victory, once again into the Olympic women's team semifinals.
The German women's team will not be surprised to compete with the Chinese women's table tennis for the right to the final, the focus of this game is still On Han Ying's two singles, whether it can create enough difficulties for the national table tennis women's player is the key, otherwise it is difficult for the German women's table tennis to resist the offensive of the Chinese women's team.