Nagoya, Japan, December 15 (Xinhua) -- The 2023 World Table Tennis Professional League (WTT) Women's Finals kicked off in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan on the 15th.
The WTT Nagoya Women's Finals brought together 16 of the world's top women's singles players and eight women's doubles pairs, and was the first WTT series to be held in Japan.
The opening match was between Wang Yidi and South Korea's Shin Yubin. Wang Yidi, who won the women's singles championship of the WTT Frankfurt Championship not long ago, continued her hot form and went down to two cities with :6;Then the South Korean teenager regained his touch, and when he was once 7:10 behind, he chased three match points in a row and overtook the score to pull back a game at 13:11. But in the fourth game, Wang Yidi did not give his opponent another chance, locked the victory with 11:5, and took the lead in advancing to the quarterfinals.
After the game, Wang Yidi said that he was more intense when he played against Shen Yubin before, but he didn't expect the start to be so smooth, which led to a bit of a conservative mentality in the third gameThe fourth inning has been adjusted** Variations have been added along the way. "I was a little nervous in the first game, and I was mainly trying to get my form right. Wang Yidi said.
Another Chinese player, Wang Manyu, faced the offensive of Monaco's Yang Xiaoxin, and won the first game with five points in a row after falling behind 7:10. Since then, the two sides have formed a stalemate many times, but Wang Manyu performed better at the critical moment, winning two games in a row with 7, defeating the opponent with a total score of 3:0, and meeting Chen Xingtong in the quarterfinals, who defeated the European Games women's singles champion and Romanian Szokos 3:2 in five games.
Zhang Rui defeated national table tennis teammate Qian Tianyi in three straight games with :10, and she will compete with Wang Yidi for a ticket to the semifinals.
In the first round, two key battles between China and Japan were staged, and the Chinese players won without danger. Chen Mengyi, the No. 3 seed of the tournament, defeated the Japanese women's table tennis "first sister" Hina Hayada 7;In the other match, the current world No. 1 Sun Yingsha and 15-year-old Zhang Benmeihe fell into a tug-of-war, and in the first four games it was 2:2, and she scored 8 points in a row after a pause in the deciding game to end the suspense of the game 3:2.
German veteran Han Ying and Japan's Misei Ito will face Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng respectively in the next round.
The quarterfinals of the women's singles and women's doubles will be played on the 16th. (ENDS).