Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen won the first gold medal for the Chinese team in the mixed doubles final; The Grand Slam winner Ma Long easily advanced in both men’s singles and doubles; Ding Ning’s semi-final failed to match Liu Shiwen’s missing world table tennis women’s singles three successive championships.
Xinhua News Agency, Budapest, April 26 (Reporter Zhang Zhang, Su Bin) Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen won the first gold medal for the Chinese team in the World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest on the 26th; the Grand Slam winner Ma Long easily advanced in both men’s singles and doubles; Ding Ning’s semi-final failed to match Liu Shiwen’s missed world table tennis women’s singles three successive championships.
The highlight of the day is the mixed doubles final. First, because this project will produce the first gold in this world table tennis tournament, the mixed doubles will officially become an Olympic event in Tokyo. After five rounds of competition, Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen 4:1 like defended the champion and Japan portfolio Jicun Zhenqing/Kasumi Ishikawa, opening the door for the Chinese team to win gold.
In the first game of the competition, Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen took the lead all the way from the beginning, leading his opponent by 8 points at most, easily winning the opening ceremony at 11:5; In the second game, china’s combination had fallen behind its opponent by 4 points in the initial stage, but then scored continuously and followed the next game at 11:8. Later, a slight change in mentality led the Chinese team to lose one game. However, in the next fourth and fifth games, the experienced Xin Wen team did not give the opponent another chance. The scores of the two games were fixed at 11:9 and 11:4. The Chinese team also won the first gold medal in this World Table Tennis Championships.
In the men’s singles quarter-finals, defending champion Malone beat his team friend Lin Gaoyuan in four games. Liang Jingkun eliminated Japanese good player Dan Yu Xiaoxi after seven games, the two national team members will meet in the semi-final.
Malone and Lin Gaoyuan met in the Qatar Open final of the International Table Tennis Federation world tour not long ago. At that time, Malone, who was soon back from injury, won the championship after returning to the international arena eight months later. In this fight again, Malone had the upper hand from beginning to end. He won by four straight sets of 11:8, 11:9, 11:8 and 11:4.
In the first game of Liang Jingkun and Dan Yu Xiaoxi, Dan Yu Xiaoxi took the lead in getting the game, but at the critical moment Liang Jingkun was not soft, winning 12:10 with three points. The process of the second game was just the opposite. Liang Jingkun lost points continuously when he held the game point. Dan Yu Xiaoxi won 12:10. Liang Jingkun won two consecutive games at 11:8 and 11:4, and took the lead in the fifth game. However, Dan Yu Xiaoxi relied on several high-quality attacks and pulled back to a city at 11:9.
In the sixth game, Liang Jingkun fell behind at 3:7. Although he doggedly chased to 7 square meters, Dan Yu Xiaoxi’s forehand attack exerted its power and dragged the game into the final match at 11:7. Since then, Liang Jingkun did not give his opponent too many opportunities, and the score of the seventh game was locked at 11:5.
In the other two men’s singles quarter-finals, Swedish player Falk 4:1 defeated French player Simon goats who had eliminated Chinese famous General Xu Xin before, while South Korean athlete anzaixian fought hard for 7 games, 4:3 beat Zhang Yuzhen, who ranks 10th in the world. Falk will compete with anzaixian for a final quota.
In the semi-finals of women’s singles, Ding Ning, the world’s No. 1 2:4, lost to Liu Shiwen and missed three successive championships in advance. Ding Ning took the lead in getting started after the opening, while Liu Shiwen made more mistakes. Ding Ning won two consecutive games with 11:6 and 11:9. Starting from the third game, Liu Shiwen gave full play to the speed advantage of the first three boards, pulling two games with 11:5 and 11:5. In the fifth game, she even played a 11:0 Ding Ning. After winning the sixth game at 11:2, Liu Shiwen locked the final seat with a total score of 4:2.
In another semi-final, Chen meng11: 5, 11:7, 11:5 and 11:8, who ranked third in the world, beat his teammate Wang manzhang in four rounds.
At the end of the day, two man pair semi-finals were held. In the first game, Ma Long, who eliminated Lin Gaoyuan at 4:0 in the quarter-finals of the singles in the morning, joined hands with young general Wang Chuqin to easily beat the combination of Lin Gaoyuan and Liang Jingkun again at 4:0. Ma Long/Wang Chu Qin not only had a struggle with his opponent in the first game, but finally won at 12:10. Then he didn’t encounter too much resistance in the three games, with two 11:7 and 11:5, go straight to the final in four rounds.
In another semi-final, the cross-association group composed of Romanian player Jonescu and Spanish Luo bouleuse and the Portuguese group aprolonia/Monteiro fought for 7 rounds and struggled to win and advance.
The 27th is the penultimate match day of the World Table Tennis Championships, which will be held in the women’s singles and man pair finals, as well as the semi-finals of men’s singles and women’s doubles. (Finished)