On December 22, Shenzhen ushered in the opening of the National Table Tennis Super League Finals. In the first stage, the semi-finals of the men's team and the four teams of the women's team each will advance, which will be divided into semi-finals and finals. The women's team semifinals will be played on the 22nd, while the men's team semifinals will be played on the 23rd. The final is scheduled for the 24th and lasts for three days. The venue of this year's competition is Shenzhen.
In the semi-finals of the women's team on the first day of the match, Shandong Luneng will face Shanghai Longteng, and Shenzhen University will face East China University of Science and Technology. The competition will start at 3 p.m. on the same day, and Shandong Luneng has strong players such as Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi and Fan Siqi, who won the women's team championship in the first stage of the competition and maintained a winning record.
Among the many victories, they once defeated Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng's Shenzhen University 3-2, with Qian Tianyi beating Sun Yingsha to win the team. Since Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong and Qian Tianyi are all the main players of national table tennis, the overall strength of the Shandong Luneng team is strong and it is the biggest favorite to win the championship. The Shanghai Longteng team has strong players such as Zhang Rui, Sun Mingyang, Liu Weishan, He Zhuojia, Chen Yi and Yang Yiyun.
Although Zhang Rui successfully defeated Qian Tianyi in the previous WTT Nagoya Women's Finals to advance to the quarterfinals, if he wants to defeat Shandong Luneng led by Wang Manyu and Chen Xingtong, he needs to show more outstanding strength and condition. In the first stage of the competition, they were ranked fourth, so they could only play against Shandong Luneng, who ranked first, in the finals. At 7:30 p.m. on the same day, Shenzhen University will face off against East China University of Science and Technology.
The Shenzhen University team has strong players such as Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Kui Man and Yang Huijing. Since this year's Table Tennis Super Finals will be held in Shenzhen, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng will fight at home. They finished second in the first stage of the tournament and are favourites to win the tournament once they reach the finals. In the Shenzhen University team, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha are ace players, especially Sun Yingsha, who has always ranked first in the world and is the absolute devil in the women's table tennis world.
In addition, as a talented young player, Kueman has also attracted much attention. The team of East China University of Science and Technology has players such as Wang Yidi, Li Yake, Wang Xiaotong, Qin Xiaoce and Zhao Shang. Among them, Wang Yidi is a top player, Li Yake and Sun Yingsha are Qiu Yike's **, and the two sides are very familiar with each other. In terms of overall strength comparison, East China University of Science and Technology is indeed inferior to Shenzhen University, and it does not have an advantage in terms of time, place and people, so if they want to advance to the finals, they need to go all out.
The semi-finals of this year's Table Tennis Super Finals adopted a best-of-five format, a rule that makes every match more intense. At the beginning of the match, the women's doubles match was played first, which kicked off the whole match. The other tournaments are in a singles format, allowing each player to give their best to show their strengths. We are looking forward to the wonderful performances of the teams in the competition, and we believe that this match will definitely bring a real visual feast to the audience.