On February 16, 2024, the women's team group stage of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships ushered in a fierce battle. The Chinese women's team played against the Indian women's team, however, the result of the match was beyond everyone's expectations. Sun Yingsha, the world No. 1 in national table tennis, played abnormally in the first match and lost 1-3 to India's Aishka Mukherjee.
Ashika Mukherjee is not unknown, Mukherjee is 26 years old, she has a special style of granular glue, and her backhand is long glue, which has more changes. She partnered Sutilta Mukherjee in last year's Asian Games and successfully knocked out the Chen Meng-Wang Yidi combination and won the bronze medal in women's doubles, but Sun Yingsha and her really rarely play against each other, and they are not familiar with Mukherjee's style of play.
After the start of the game, Aishka Mukherjee quickly got into the groove and once drew 3 with Sun Yingsha. Subsequently, Sun Yingsha strengthened the return attack and scored consecutive points. However, after falling behind 7-10, Mukherjee showed tenacious fighting spirit, scoring five points in a row to win the first game 12-10. Sun Yingsha was obviously a little uncomfortable with Mukherjee's spinning ball, and her mistakes increased significantly.
Entering the second game, Sun Yingsha quickly adjusted her state, scoring 6 points in a row at the beginning and quickly widening the score gap. She easily won the game 11-2 and showed the strength of the world No. 1. However, in the third game, the game took another turn. In the fierce battle between the two sides, Sun Yingsha lost points in a row while leading, and her judgment of the opponent's downspin ball was not in place. Lost the game 11-13.
In the fourth game, Aishka Mukherjee was already in full swing, scoring consecutive points to finally win the game 11-6, thus defeating Sun Yingsha with an overall score of 3-1.
Yesterday, the head coach of national table tennis Li Ying said in an interview: "In fact, the most worrying point is that we are still very ourselves, we can't underestimate the enemy, and we must not underestimate the enemy." Be ourselves, because Busan is very impressive to me. In 2002, too, in Busan, we had our own problems. So before the race, we have to be fully prepared for the difficulties. Clearly, Lee's concerns were not unfounded, as the Chinese team suffered a setback in the opening game.