The ITTF 2023 World Junior Table Tennis Championships are in full swing and most of the matches have already been played. In the latest U15 mixed doubles final, the national table tennis unfortunately lost, losing to Japan with a total score of 2:3 and missing the championship. This also means that the national table tennis has lost 4 championships in a row in the U15 age group, namely the U15 women's team, women's doubles, men's doubles and mixed doubles. In this U15 mixed doubles final, Sun Yang and Yan Yulu of national table tennis faced Japanese players Watanabe Minto and Koshio Yuna. Since Sun Yang is a chipper, the combination of national table tennis may not have an advantage in terms of playing style. In the first game, Sun Yang and Yan Yulu took the lead 11:3. Then, the opponents Minoto Watanabe and Yuna Koshio equalized the situation 11-8. In the third game, Sun Yang and Yan Yulu won again with 11:8, leading 2:1 in total.
The next fourth game was very intense, and Sun Yang and Yan Yulu made mistakes when the two sides fought to the critical minute, resulting in the opponents Watanabe Minren and Koshio Yuna equalizing the total score of 2:2 at 13:11. In the final tiebreaker, the Japanese players showed bravery, scored key points in a row to lock up the victory with 11:9, and unexpectedly defeated the national table tennis mixed doubles Sun Yang and Yan Yulu with a total score of 3:2 and successfully won the championship. Overall, Sun Yang and Yan Yulu of the national table tennis lost in the final with a total score of 2:3 and missed the championship, and the national table tennis has lost 4 championships in a row in this World Youth Championships. In contrast, Japan has won two titles so far, the U15 women's team and the mixed doubles. In the U15 men's singles 1 16 finals, Sun Yang, the chipper of the national table tennis, faced his opponent Damian Floren, and Sun Yang easily won the promotion with a total score of 11:7, 11:8, 11:6, and 11:4.
Another national table tennis player, Wang Jixuan's opponent withdrew, so Wang Jixuan directly advanced. In the U15 men's singles 1 8 finals, Sun Yang, the chipper of national table tennis, played against Chinese Taipei's Xu Xuanjia, and the two sides drew 1:1 in the first two games, and then Sun Yang gradually took control of the situation and won three games in a row with 11:6, 13:11, 11:7, and a total score of 4:1 to successfully advance to the quarterfinals. In another game, Wang Jixuan, a young player in national table tennis, played against Australian player Aditya Salin, Wang Jixuan fought hard in six games, and won the total score of 4:2 to advance. In the U15 women's singles 1 8 finals, Yan Yulu, a young player in national table tennis, swept India's Jennifer Valgates 4:0 with a total score of 11:6, 11:3, 13:11, and 11:6 and successfully advanced. Ding Yijie showed an extraordinary performance in the competition and experienced fierce battles.
In the first game, she lost 0:11 to Japan's Ai Takamori, but then she quickly adjusted her form and won four games in a row to win 11:7, 11:5, 11:4, 11:7, and finally the total score was 4:1, and successfully advanced to the next round.