The wtt Slovenianiya Table Tennis Challenge ended the first round of the women's singles competition, and the two women in the national table tennis competition both advanced to the round of 16, with Wang Yidi as the top seed, a 3-0 victory over Singapore's No. 3 singles Lin Ye, and Liu Weishan defeated Serbia's Lopless ku 3-1. In the next round of the round of eight, Liu Weishan will meet Slovakia's Barazova, who reached the quarter-finals of the Olympic mixed doubles with her partner Pistje at the Tokyo Olympic Games. The first round of the tournament broke a big upset, and the 58-year-old veteran Ni Xialian, the 1983 World Table Tennis Championships mixed doubles champion and representing Luxembourg, was reversed 2-3 by Russia's Abramian.
2021 wtt Slovenia women's singles round of 16 matches:
Wang Yidi vs Daniela (Upper Half)
Kaufman vs Abramian (Top Half)
Gaudier vs Szokos (Top Half)
Dalia vs Batlla (Upper Half)
Nova vs Sabine (Lower Half)
Tovante vs Zhang Mo (Lower Half)
Barazova vs Liu Weishan (Lower Half)
Diaz vs ZengJian (lower half)
Due to the imminent start of the World Table Tennis Championships, the world's top players are basically in retreat training, and none of the top 10 women's singles players in the world ranking have participated in this competition. Wang Yidi, ranked 11th in the world, competed as the number one seed and played in women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. The women's singles met Singapore's Lin Ye in the first round, although she participated in the Olympic women's team as the team's No. 3 singles main force, but her level was still far from Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu, and as a result, she was swept out by Wang Yidi in the first round. Wang Yidi has almost no opponents in the first half of the zone, and it is Daniela who competes with her for the top 8 in the second round, and the score is predicted to be 3-0.
Wang Yidi's in the top half includes the famous Szokos and Batla, but the two are in the same 1/4 zone, and only one of them can reach the semifinals. Romania's Szokos is the team's number one main force, winning the championship in the intercontinental women's team and women's singles competition many times, And India's Batra long glue play is not small, both of them have the possibility of advancing to the semi-finals, becoming Wang Yidi's semi-final opponents.
Liu Weishan met Slovakia's Barazova in the second half of the quarter-finals, Barazova/Pisterje is a regular visitor to the top 8 in mixed doubles events, the duo also reached the top 8 at the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the European Championships are also medal winners. Liu Weishan has a large serve advantage, and if the squat cut serve and the specialty of the first three boards can be played, it is not difficult to win.
In the first round of the women's singles event, a big cold hit broke out. Ni Xialian, a 58-year-old veteran who represented Luxembourg, lost to Russian teenager Abramian in the first round and was unable to reach the women's singles round of 16 with a 2-1 lead. As early as 1983, Ni Xialian won the Women's Team and Mixed Doubles Championships of the World Table Tennis Championships, and she competed as the oldest player in the upcoming World Table Tennis Championships.