Who will reach the final of the Singapore Grand Slam? Chen Meng is expected to crush Wang Manyu!
With the Paris Olympics approaching, the women's singles competition is also in full swing. However, according to the ITTF World Rankings for week 9 of 2024, at the Paris Open, world No. 2 Chen Meng has already started her race. Chen Meng is likely to overtake Sun Yingsha and move into the bottom half of the Singapore bracket.
With a huge advantage of 22 points far more than any words, the 30-year-old Chen Meng has a good chance of winning another gold medal in the women's singles at the Olympics.
According to the ITTF World Rankings for the ninth week of 2024, Chen Meng's score is 4527, while Wang Yidi's score is 4505, don't look at the advantage of only 22 points, but Chen Meng's score is very high. At the Grand Slam tournament in Singapore on March 10, if Chen Meng can retain his No. 3 position in the world, he will be drawn to determine whether he is in the top half or the bottom half. Judging from Sun Yingsha's current situation, the match with Wang Manyu in Paris is very important for Chen Meng, because she has already scored 2,000 points in the Grand Slam tournament in Singapore, so Chen Meng does not want to be in the top half of the group with Sasha.
Chen Meng, who has risen to No. 2 in the world rankings, will play as the No. 2 seed at the Grand Slam tournament in Singapore, and she will be placed in the bottom half of the bracket, which means that she will not face Sun Yingsha in the women's singles final. However, Wang Manyu will use the final round of the draw to determine her group. The gap between Wang Manyu and Chen Meng in Olympic points is already very large. Being in the top half of the bracket with Sasha made the women's singles match more difficult, and Chen Meng also had high expectations in the bottom half.
According to recent news, in the World Cup in April, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and others are working hard, and it is almost impossible for Wang Manyu to catch up with Chen Meng in the Olympic Games. Chen Meng is a member of the national table tennis team, and she won the championship for the first time until the 2020 World Cup until she was 26 years old. At the Paris Olympics, Chen Meng also got his second Olympic singles quota.
Chen Meng relied on the advantage of scores, but he didn't dare to take it lightly. Chen Meng, 30, defeated Sun Yingsha in Paris to win the women's singles title.
Chen Meng's score is very high now, but from the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, the characteristics of the Indian women's team can be seen, and several major improvements in Japan are obvious, such as Chen Meng's Grand Slam in Singapore, unexpectedly failed in one round, and was eliminated in the second round, this time, Wang Manyu's score is already very high, and Wang Manyu still has a chance to surpass Chen Meng. Therefore, in the following games, Chen Meng still did not dare to take it lightly. Chen Meng is likely to win the singles title in Paris, and I think Sun Yingsha still has a chance to win the women's singles title.
Chen Meng is over 30 years old after all, and he is inferior to Sun Yingsha in terms of physical fitness and skills. Many of Japan's competitors are strong, but at the Busan Table Tennis Championships, these were offset by Sasha. The biggest rivals of the women's singles champion at the Paris Olympics are still her teammates Chen Meng and Wang Manyu. Chen Meng's level is slightly higher than Wang Manyu's.
In Paris, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu have both risen to second place in the world, what do you think? Everyone is welcome to comment, thank you for appreciating!