In 5 November, Chinese table tennis team ended the last match of the second day of the WTT Frankfurt Championships, Wang Manyu, who had been absent from a number of domestic and foreign tournaments, made her official return, eliminating Thailand’s Olavan 3-1 in the first round of the women’s singles after a vicious 4-game battle, thus advancing to the women’s singles round of sixteen, and then she will block the strength of the South Korean famous Joo Chin-hee, see below for more details on the battle.
Match highlights
Wang Man Yu is currently the world’s second-ranked women’s singles player and the top seed of this championship, having won the Olympic gold medal in the women’s team twice with teammates Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, and is also the women’s singles champion of the World Championships, the Asian Games, the Asian Championships, the All-China Games, and the All-China Championships.
However, recently Wang Man Yu has been plagued by injuries, coupled with changes at home, so withdrew from the Asian Championships, National Championships, WTT Montpellier Championships, how much the state of the recovery is difficult to predict, this time to return to the field of the first opponent is a cold victory over Hina Hayada and other famous Orawan, although Wang Man Yu advantage is very large, but must do enough to prepare for the difficulties.
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The process of the match
At the beginning of the game, both athletes played conservatively, although Wang Man Yu had previously defeated Olavan zero, but after all the recent war, so did not quickly enter their own advantage of high-quality looping confrontation, but soon after the situation in the back of the control of the opponent’s near the table fast connecting attack, and ultimately to 11-9 narrowly won to take the lead.
The second game WangManyu although still in the opening stage of the slow heat, but soon through the strong rotation to hold Olavan’s speed, and then get 6 set points and finally 11-5 another city, the gap between the two sides of the strength is indeed relatively large, the Thai player was completely pressed.
The third game Olavan did not get discouraged, but continue to fight to take the lead, Wang Manyu in the case of 3-8 behind to 6-8, forcing the other side to pause to adjust, followed by 8-10 behind to save 2 set points to tie, but unfortunately ultimately failed to take, to 11-13 defeat, Olavan successfully back to a city.
Wang Man Yu refused to be conservative in the fourth set, came up on the aggressive attack to suppress Olavan, and then did not give the other side of the opportunity to turn the plate, and ultimately to 11-6 to end the entire game, thus advancing to the women’s singles round of 16, will be with Zhu Qianxi a showdown.