On December 17, the WTT Women's Finals, the last high-level international table tennis event of 2023, came to an end in Nagoya. Sun Yingsha, the world No. 1 in women's singles, won four matches in one day and won double championships, including women's doubles with her old partner Wang Manyu to defeat the Japanese pair, and singles won two consecutive national table tennis main forces.
The WTT Women's Finals features a significant number of world ranking points, with a total of 16 women's singles players and eight women's doubles pairs qualifying. In the semi-finals of the first two events on the 17th, Sun Yingsha sang and advanced, defeating the Olympic champion Chen Meng 4-1 in singles, and partnering with Wang Manyu in doubles to eliminate this year's World Table Tennis Championships champion Chen Meng and Wang Yidi 3-1.
In the evening, the women's doubles final was held, and the two pairs of bronze medallists at this year's World Championships, Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu and Miyu Nagasaki Miyu Kihara, met in a narrow way. The latter defeated the "Shayu" combination in the 2019 International Table Tennis ** Finals to win the championship, and this year has reached the semi-finals four times in the six tournaments in which he participated in his partner. In this finals, the Japanese team eliminated two pairs of players including the current world No. 1 Tian Zhixi and Shen Yubin and reached the finals.
Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, who were once world No. 1, are participating in the competition for the fourth time this year. The two had only won one WTT Grand Slam title before, and both the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban and the Asian Games lost in the semi-finals, and the world ranking also slipped to third place. In this final, the two withstood the pressure and defeated Miyu Nagasaki 12-10. Wang Manyu said that the previous results and cooperation between the two were not ideal, and they urgently needed to regain tacit understanding and confidence through the competition, "In this competition, we are more active than before, and we are more active in communication. This championship is very important to us. ”
In the final women's singles final, Sun Yingsha faced her world-ranked teammate Wang Yidi. The two have faced each other twice in international competitions this year, winning one each. In the WTT Frankfurt Championship more than a month ago, Wang Yidi had just defeated Sun Yingsha and finally won the gold, and this time she defeated Chen Xingtong, another main player of national table tennis, 4-1 in the semifinals. In the final, Sun Yingsha actively mobilized and defeated Wang Yidi 4-2 to win the seventh international championship this year, with a specific score of 12-7-7.
After the game, Sun Yingsha said that because her teammates are very familiar with each other, and Wang Yidi's strength and quality of the ball are among the top, and she has just lost to the other party, she is going into battle with the mentality of "fighting". She said that she was very satisfied with her performance, "At the same time, I am looking forward to 2024, come on!" ”
Courtesy of WTT World Table Tennis Federation.