On the second day of the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships, we would like to pay tribute to Bruna Alexander, a female player from Brazil! He was a silver medalist in table tennis at the Tokyo Paralympics. Bruna represented Brazil in a match against South Africa today, earning one point for Brazil. As an athlete with a disability, you can appear in the highest level team events in international table tennis today and win matches for your team. Worthy of all of our admiration!
Today's game is less turbulent than yesterday! The Chinese men's and women's teams defeated the Cuban men's team and the Uzbekistan women's team with the same score of 3:0 respectively in the noon session. Liang Jingkun, Chen Meng and Chen Xingtong appeared one after another, while Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha did not register for the competition today. After two days of competition, only Lin Gaoyuan of the Chinese team has not yet played, and the other players who have signed up for the team World Table Tennis Championships have all appeared.
In terms of foreign associations, Japan won yesterday without a fight due to the withdrawal of the Nigerian men's team. Today ushered in the first opponent of the World Table Tennis Championships, the Czech team. The Japanese team sent three athletes, Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Daito Shinozuka and Teruku Matsushima. In the end, they won 3:0! Hayasuke Togami still missed the game due to fever. He will continue to miss the next games of the Japanese team, and will not return until the 21st at the earliest. Tomorrow the Japanese team will usher in a tough battle against the Chinese Taipei team! The Japanese women's team defeated the Iranian women's team 3-0 today, but Miu Hirano staged a scene of two chasing three in the match against Iran's Mahid Ashtari. Miu Hirano lost two games in the opening game, and then won three games in a row. The whole game was very close, and the score of the last two games was 11:13.
Miu Hirano has a similar rollercoaster experience with two Chinese players from the Portuguese women's team, Shao Jenni and Fu Yu. In the match against Austria, the two players lost to Liu Jia and Sofia Polkanova of Austria as the team's first and second singles. After Portugal pulled back a point, the two players came back to the field, Shao Jenni defeated Sofia Polcano and Fu Yu beat Liu Jia. In the end, Portugal narrowly defeated Austria 3-2. The host South Korean men's and women's teams and the Paris Olympics host France men's and women's teams also defeated their opponents today to win two consecutive group stage victories. The teams that also won two consecutive games were the German men's and women's teams, Sweden men's teams, Austrian men's teams, Hong Kong women's teams, Chinese Taipei women's teams, Chile women's teams, and Romanian women's teams.
Tomorrow, the Chinese men's and women's teams will face the Hungarian men's team and the Spanish women's team respectively. The men's team plays at 9:00 a.m. and the women's team plays at 7:00 p.m.