On 20 November, the table tennis Fukuoka Finals continued with Chinese table tennis world champion Wang Yidi taking the court against Chinese Taipei world runner-up Zheng Yijing. Although Wang Yidi, who had won five consecutive matches without a loss, encountered some difficulties, she finally won 3-1, thus getting the second ticket to the women’s singles quarter-finals after her teammate Qian Tianyi (who won 3-0 against Diaz), and the Chinese table tennis team won two consecutive matches in a row. Zheng Yijing became the first top 10 player to be eliminated from the tournament, see below for more details.
Match highlights
Wang Yidi and Zheng Yijing are both currently ranked in the top ten in the world, with the former at number three and the latter at number nine, and both have achieved good results in singles events at the World Championships, with Wang Yidi being the third runner-up at the World Championships, and Zheng Yijing winning the silver and bronze medals at the World Cup.
However, in the previous five meetings, Wang Yidi has won all of her matches against Zheng Yijing, and has shut out her opponent on four occasions. Coupled with the fact that she is only 27 years old and in her prime, this match will be a test for the 32-year-old Zheng Yijing.
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Match Process
At the beginning of the match, the two players competed in the left half of the table on the backhand hold, although Zheng Yijing belongs to the ‘forehand sharp’ athletes, but still through the change of backhand landing point suppression of Wang Yidi intermediate position points, and soon gained the lead, but Wang Yidi then on the position of effective defence and the first power to win, and then in the second half of the game In the second set, Zheng Yijing continued to fight for the lead and won the match 11-9.
In the second set, Zheng Yijing still fought very fiercely, came up to the backhand banana flip to wrestle Wang Yidi’s hand, and then through the backhand straight line changes to restrain Wang Yidi’s footwork, and once again took the lead. In the face of Zheng Yijing relaxation after the impact, Wang Yidi tenacious chase to 5-6 only 1 point, forcing Zheng Yijing pause to adjust, and then successfully chased down to 7-7 flat, followed by a board back to wipe the net to overtake the score, the two continue to tangle to 9-9 flat, Wang Yidi 9-10, 10-11 behind to save the set point, but then appeared back to the ball error, to 11-13 defeat by the other side to equalise a city.
In the third set, Wang Yidi began to consciously strengthen the threat of forehand attack, no longer rely too much on the backhand, and soon opened up the situation and gained the lead, using a higher quality of looping to break the defence, and ultimately to 11-4 easily won, the score was also changed to 2-1 lead Chinese Taipei players into a desperate situation.
The fourth game Wang Yidi morale, came up to the continuous scoring, and Zheng Yijing in the case of backwater can only continue to fight to try to disrupt the opponent, but at this time Wang Yidi’s mind has become very relaxed, not by Zheng Yijing’s impact on the rhythm, and ultimately forced the other side of the direct service error to 11-5 after the end of the battle, and the big score of 3-1 to advance to the women’s singles quarter-finals.
