In the women's singles semifinals of the 2023 WTT Women's Finals, Chen Xingtong played against teammate Wang Yidi. As a result, Wang Yidi defeated Chen Xingtong 4-1 and took the lead in advancing to the women's singles final. Let's take a look at the process of the competition
Chen Xingtong played very well in the finals, and he also eliminated Szokos and Wang Manyu on the way to promotion, but when he came to Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong still seemed to have some insufficient offensive firepower. At the beginning of the game, Chen Xingtong's holding was very steady, and the quality of hitting was also very high, Wang Yidi was very adaptable to Chen Xingtong's hitting rhythm, the two were not only teammates of the national team, but also from the Liaoning team, 12-10 Wang Yidi won the first game. In the second game, Chen Xingtong changed his strategy, and he was different from Wang Yi's fight, and added some control such as rubbing and swinging in the stage.
Wang Yidi also saw a move for this change, and the backhand bounce in the stage quickly opened the score. 11-5 Wang Yidi won the second game. In the third game, Wang Yidi's mistakes increased, Chen Xingtong started 8-0, and also increased the transfer of the forehand straight line, 11-3 Chen Xingtong pulled back a game. Wang Yidi's strength is outstanding, her playing style is **, and Sun Yingsha and other teammates also call her "Brother Di" in private. For her style of play, if Wang Yidi is allowed to stand still and blast out backhand firepower, few people can indeed defeat her in terms of speed and strength near the platform.
If Chen Xingtong wants to win this game, the main thing is to increase the forehand attack, and in addition, to suppress Wang Yidi's middle lane, and quickly mobilize Wang Yidi's forehand straight line. In the fourth game, Wang Yidi increased forehand protection, and the score led 7-3. Chen Xingtong also fought back with all his might after that, and in the end, Wang Yidi still relied on the crazy attack of the forehand and backhand to win the fourth game 11-8. In the fifth game, Chen Xingtong took the lead in the score, but Wang Yidi fought his backhand attack to the end, one board after another, and Chen Xingtong took the initiative to call a timeout when the score came to 4-5. At the end of the game, Chen Xingtong was reversed by Wang Yidi 12-10 when the score was leading. In this way, Wang Yidi defeated Chen Xingtong with a big score of 4-1 and advanced to the women's singles final.
For Chen Xingtong, being able to reach the semifinals of women's singles in the finals is already a very good result for her. In this year's Durban World Table Tennis Championships and the Finals, Chen Xingtong eliminated Wang Manyu, which is also a very big breakthrough. This women's singles semi-final is not to say that Chen Xingtong did not play well, but in the case of the same very strong holding strength, Wang Yidi attacked more and dared to start. Chen Xingtong is still not enough in the first three boards. The move of turning the forehand into a straight line was also reciprocated by Wang Yidi.
After Wang Yidi reaches the final, she will also gain at least 1,050 points, and she will be ranked second in the world next week. Ranking second in the world is also beneficial to Wang Yidi's next game, which is in favor of the draw group. It can be said that if you don't disrupt Wang Yidi's offensive rhythm on the first three boards, or say that the two big horns come to move her, the backhand of the positional battle is too strong. After Wang Yidi advances to the women's singles final, she will also wait for the winner between Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng.
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