Chinese coach Li Falcon, team members Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha (left to right) cheered on their teammates on the sidelines. @Xinhua News Agency
Star Shine Tokyo
Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Yang Min
The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Table Tennis Men's Team and Women's Team Top 4 were all produced yesterday. China's women's table tennis eliminated Singapore women's table tennis 3-0 in the quarterfinals and will compete with the last runner-up German women's table tennis in the semi-finals this morning; China men's table tennis today competed with South Korean men's table tennis for the men's team final.
In the semi-finals of the second half of the women's team held last night, the Japanese women's table tennis eliminated the Women's Table Tennis in Hong Kong, China, 3-0, and took the lead in reaching the women's team final.
In yesterday's women's team quarter-final, the Chinese women's table tennis changed sides, sending Chen Meng's partner Wang Manyu in the first set of women's doubles, and they easily beat Yu Mengyu/Lin Ye 3-0. In the second set of women's singles competition, Sun Yingsha won Feng Tianwei 3-0. In the third set of women's singles competition, Wang Manyu won three consecutive sets under the first loss of one set to achieve a reversal, and also locked in the victory for the national table tennis. This morning, the opponent of Chinese women's table tennis is the German women's table tennis team that won the silver medal in the women's team at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
In the men's team project, the Chinese men's table tennis eliminated the French men's table tennis 3-0 on the evening of August 2, easily locking in the final four seats. In the second set of men's singles competition, Fan Zhendong from Guangzhou fought hard for five sets to win 3-2 against the opponent's number one men's singles Simon Gautz. At noon today, the men's team semi-finals began. The opponent of Chinese men's table tennis is Korean men's table tennis, and another semi-final will be played between German men's table tennis and host Japanese men's table tennis.
In the women's doubles, Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu once won the women's doubles championship at the 2019 Budapest World Table Tennis Championships, and the combination of Chen Meng / Wang Manyu played relatively rarely. Chen Meng said after the game that he had indeed not matched Wang Manyu for a while, but when he played yesterday, the two were very trusting and tacit, and they would continue to work hard. Wang Manyu also said that although he has not partnered with Chen Meng for a long time, he is still very familiar and tacit in the game, and yesterday's cooperation is also very smooth.
One of the five sets of the Olympic table tennis team competition was doubles, which was arranged in the third set in previous editions, while this year was arranged in the first set, which greatly increased the contingency of the results. Through the 1/8 finals and 1/4 finals, the Chinese women's table tennis practiced Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu and Chen Meng/Wang Manyu and achieved good results, which enhanced the flexibility of the semi-finals and final platooning.
The 20-year-old national table tennis "Little Devil" Sun Yingsha soared in popularity during the Olympic Games with her outstanding performance in the women's singles field and her frank and cute personality off the field. After participating in the Olympic Games for the first time, after staying in the Olympic Village with the team before the game, she did not know that the athletes' restaurant in the village was served 24 hours a day, so her first question was: "Is there any food to eat?" After yesterday's game, Wang Manyu revealed that she and Sun Yingsha were very happy after knowing that there was still food to eat, and the two of them immediately went to dinner together. Sun Yingsha's applause during the women's group competition also caused heated discussion among netizens, and was called "primary school student-style" applause, which was very cute. Yesterday she explained that in fact, there is nothing special, she has several ways of clapping, one is tired, just change the other.
Source: Guangzhou Daily