On August 4, Beijing time, the Chinese team and the German team met in the semi-final of the table tennis women's team, in the end, Chen Meng's partner Wang Manyu won the women's doubles victory, Sun Yingsha defeated the 17-year-old veteran who was 17 years older to get the second point, and recovered from Chen Meng's 0-1 to 3-1 reversal to defeat Solja, so that the Chinese team swept Germany 3-0 and met with the Japanese women's team in the final!
It is worth mentioning that in this semi-final, although the opponent is the European rival Germany, but the opponent 3 athletes, plus a sideline coach, only Solja is a native German, she once won the third place in the World Cup in 2015, and was later selected by the International Table Tennis Federation as the best female athlete of the year, while the other 2 teammates and the Head Coach of the German team are actually Chinese, but later switched to German nationality and appeared in the competition in another capacity.
For example, in the first women's doubles match, Sol jia partnered with the Chinese famous Player Shan Xiaona, who was born in Anshan, Liaoning, and was a fellow countryman with Ma Long and Li Xiaoxia, and Han Ying, who played alone after that, was a full 17 years older than Sun Yingsha, who was also from Liaoning, and officially got a German passport in 2010, chose to represent the German team, and was a chipper.
It is worth mentioning that even the German women's team coach Shi Jie on the sidelines is also a Chinese, she was the main force of the Hebei team at the beginning, but due to the abundance of national table tennis talents, for personal development, she eventually went to Germany to become a member of the "Overseas Corps".
That is to say, the semi-final of the Olympic table tennis women's team - Sino-German war, 6 athletes and 2 coaches in the field, adding up to 8 people, only Solja is a native German, and the others are all born and raised in China, from this detail, it can be seen that the overall advantage of Chinese table tennis is too strong!