On 7 February, the table tennis WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament staged a showdown between Chinese table tennis team star Wang Yidi on the court, and old rival, Japan’s Olympic champion ito mima again, the result Wang Yidi 4-1 victory, won the women’s singles semi-final ticket.
Before that, Kuai Man and Chen Xing Tong had already defeated Zhu Yuling and Hayata Hina respectively, and now Wang Yidi eliminated Ito Mima, and the last women’s singles quarter-final will be between Sun Ying Sha and He Zhuodjia, so the Chinese team will take all the quarter-finalists of the programme, locking up the champion, runner-up and quarter-finalist in advance – Details of Wang Yidi vs. See below for details.
Wang Yidi and Ito Mima are the main athletes of the Chinese table tennis team, with Ito Mima’s results being even more impressive, once the Chinese table tennis team’s top rival, winning mixed doubles gold, women’s team silver and women’s singles bronze at the Tokyo Olympics, but she hasn’t beaten the main Chinese team in the entire Paris Olympics cycle, and has been less of a threat than she once was, having lost five consecutive matches against Wang Yidi since 2020.
However, ito mima’s form has clearly picked up in this Grand Slam tournament, with a 3-1 win over Chinese table tennis team’s 10th-ranked player Qian Tianyi, hitting a good form that has been missing for a long time, so even if Wang Yidi hasn’t lost against her opponent in the last four years, she will have to prepare for difficulties in this battle.
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After the match started, Wang Yidi played better in the first set, using both sides of the spin of the backspin to restrain the speed of the raw rubber of Ito Mima, and at the same time strengthening the balanced use of forehand and backspin to suppress the Japanese Olympic champion with a more comprehensive technology, and soon gained the lead and succeeded in pulling out the first round with 11-7, and the overall play was relatively normal.
The second game ito mima’s counterattack is very effective, close to the platform to grab the rising point of the speed is very fast, many times to disrupt the Wang Yidi position and quickly get 7 set points, and ultimately to 11-4 back to a city.
In the third game, the two continued to carry out fierce attack, the angle of the return is very big, Wang Yidi again lead was chased, but has maintained the advantage to the end of the game, and then in the key points in the fight against the pressure, and ultimately to 2 points difference 11-9 narrowly won another city, the big score has been rewritten to 2-1 again ahead of the other side.
The first half of the fourth set is still very close, Wang Yidi lead was tied, but soon adjusted to the state of pulling away from the gap, to get four set points and then scored a point, and ultimately to 11-6 win ito mima into a desperate situation.
In the fifth set, ito mima was still behind in the opening game, Wang Yidi took advantage of the victory to maintain the lead, and finally ended the whole game with 11-5, thus defeating Japan’s Olympic champion 4-1, and successfully won the qualification.
So far, this Grand Slam tournament women’s singles project competition has been determined: Chinese table tennis team three Kuai Man, Chen Xing Tong, Wang Yidi has successively broken into the quarter-finals, Sun Yingsha, He Zhuojia will be in the evening of 7 February to compete for the last semi-final ticket, the Chinese team locked the championship in advance, Japan and other associations lost all the army.
