February 8, table tennis WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament women’s singles semi-finals kicked off, the two Chinese table tennis world champion Chen Xingtong, Kuai Man narrowly met, launched a fierce battle, the results of the 21-year-old junior Kuai Man 4-2 win, which the sixth game 0-7, 5-10 behind the turnover, and thus won three consecutive world champions (Wang Manyu, Zhu Yuling, Chen Xingtong) to advance to the final round, only one step away from winning the title, is indeed The newborns are formidable!
Chen Xing Tong was born in 1997, Kuai Man was born in 2004, the two are the main players of the Chinese table tennis team, but last year Kuai Man successfully selected for the Asian Championships, Mixed Troupe World Cup, Chen Xing Tong failed to make the cut (and then the Asian Championships because of Wang Manyu retired to replace), this year, the two began a new competition, in the Grand Slam tournament meet.
New Year’s Kuai Man’s form is very good, singles has got WTT Doha Ballon d’Or Championships, Muscat regular season runner-up, this time in Singapore 3-0 win Wang Manyu, 4-1 win Zhu Yuling, Chen Xing Tong last round is 4-3 win Hayata Hina, a sister of the Japanese Bing, and now face Kuai Man impact, but before her 2 wins and 1 loss Kuai Man dominated the international tournament, the youngest want to advance with difficulty.
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After the start of the game, the two sides did not rush on the attack, but first from the table swing short control to start the battle, Chen Xing Tong once gained the advantage but could not pull the score difference, Kuai Man through the left-handed line advantage to break through the opponent’s forehand position, the formation of the situation of fast hit slow, and then in the second half of the leading score, and ultimately 11-6 to pull out of the first place.
In the second game, Chen Xingtong by increasing the return ball rotation to curb the speed of Kuai Man, but the second half of the two lines of Kuai Man’s attack failed to get rid of the hold, the result was reversed the score, and ultimately Kuai Man to 11-8 reversal of another city.
The third game Chen Xingtong still playing more passive, Kuai Man is through the backhand fast tear and forehand skimming pull continuous broken defence, and also began to focus on increasing the return of the ball rotation and rhythm changes to force the other side to make mistakes, and then once again to take the lead and quickly open the gap, and then was chasing the points decisively pause to adjust the mentality of the 10-7 lead after the loss of game point to stabilise the position, and ultimately to 13-11 victory will be forced to the end of the Chen Xingtong.
The fourth game Chen Xingtong backwater is still in the doldrums, active attack errors, but at this time Kuai Man’s victory in the hope of a fluctuation in mentality, also lost a lot of their own play, Chen Xingtong seized the opportunity to 11-8 to take, a thrilling return to a city.
The fifth game Kuai Man revitalised, soon to lead again and in the table actively on the hand, on the contrary, Chen Xingtong in the field still seems relatively dull, many balls are passive defence waiting for the other side of their own mistakes, but also through the superb individual ability to level the score. In the face of Chen Xingtong’s medium power return, Kuai Man instead of the right point, the result was the other side to 11-8 win.
After losing two consecutive games, Kuai Man had a fluctuation in mentality, the sixth game came up 0-7 down, followed by constant catching up to force the other side to pause to adjust. After returning to the court, Kuai Man once 5-10 down to save five points, and finally ended the whole game with a 12-10 victory, indeed very dramatic.
