On the seventh day of the first lunar month, the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships started. On the first day of competition, the Indian women's team performed impressively, narrowly beating the defending champion Chinese women's team. Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi lost one after another, Wang Manyu scored two points, and Sun Yingsha once again went into battle to defeat the opponent. In the end, the Chinese women's team narrowly defeated the Indian women's team 3:2. Throughout the game, the Chinese team was not prepared for the two special players who did not play well against the Indian team. In particular, the configuration of Mukherjee's forehand raw rubber and backhand anti-arc rubber that defeated Sun Yingsha. The arc is erratic, and the Chinese team's adaptation to the first meeting is not ideal. Wang Yidi's opponent Akula has a forehand backhand and a long backhand. The offensive ability is very strong! On the other hand, Wang Yidi failed to give full play to his own advantages, and the handling of key balls was not ideal. In the end, they lost 0:3. The last time the Chinese women's team won 3:2 at the team World Table Tennis Championships was back in the semifinals of the Qatar World Table Tennis Championships 20 years ago. Although today's final result is that the Chinese team won. But it also sounded a wake-up call for the Chinese team and the other participating teams! The performance of the Indian team in the Olympic year is bound to intensify the competition in women's table tennis!
The Chinese men's team played the first game of the group against the Belgian men's team tonight. In the end, the Chinese team composed of Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin and Ma Long defeated the Belgian men's team 3:0. Fan Zhendong's overall form has improved greatly from the end of last year, Wang Chuqin still continued last year's good form, and the veteran Ma Long is in excellent form, facing Belgium's world's highest-ranked player Martin Allegro. The experience of participating in the World Table Tennis Championships 9 times is vividly exerted!
In terms of foreign associations, the first thing to pay attention to today is the 3-1 victory of the French men's team, the host of the Paris Olympics, against Denmark. The Lebrun brothers won three points for the French team, and the veteran Simon Goetz lost 2:3 to Linde, the big dark horse at last year's World Table Tennis Championships. Judging from the current overall situation, the Lebrun brother Gasimon Goetz is basically certain that they will be the main lineup of the French team for the Paris Olympics! In order to be able to comply with the rules of the Olympic Games, the French team has split the combination of Lebesson and Yuan Jiannan last year and changed it into the Grand Lebrun Yuan Jianan. As the largest international table tennis team event before the Paris Olympics, the performance of this team in this World Table Tennis Championships is worth our attention!
There were also some surprises on the first day of competition, as the Nigerian men's team was unable to arrive before the start of the tournament due to food poisoning from key athlete Aruna and a flight delay for another athlete. Led to the final withdrawal of the Nigerian men's team! Nigeria's opponent in the first round of the men's team, Japan, also had an unexpected situation. Core athlete Hayasuke Togami developed a fever the day before the start of the tournament and was unable to participate in the match against Nigeria. The whole team was very nervous about the next day's game. But before today's game, it was notified that the opponent Nigeria withdrew from the match, and the first round was automatically won!
Bol, a veteran of the German team, announced later today that he would withdraw from the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships due to an attack of keratitis. Earlier, when Bor was interviewed by reporters, he mentioned that the Busan World Table Tennis Championships would be the last World Table Tennis Championships he would participate in. Quitting due to illness is a pity for Bol and the majority of fans!