The national table tennis women's team advanced to the top 8! Wang Manyu's debut was amazing, Chen Meng was strong, and Sun Yingsha lost 1 game in an upset

After the men's and women's singles finals of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the men's and women's team competitions kicked off again. The first to appear is the national table tennis women's team, and their opponent is the North Africa Legion Egypt. On behalf of the national table tennis women's team, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, who are very familiar to us, Chen Meng won the championship in the previous women's singles event, and Sun Yingsha was the runner-up. In addition, Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin won the mixed doubles gold medal, while Wang Manyu made his Olympic debut in Paris. These three players won the women's table tennis team championship together at the last Olympic Games, and they aim to defend their title in this Olympic Games.

There was no suspense in the final match, and the Chinese team swept Egypt 3-0 to advance. After the game, the fans discussed more about the results than the performance of the three players. The first match was played by Chen Meng/Wang Manyu in doubles against Al Hodabi/Gundam. It can be seen from this performance that Chen Meng continued his excellent performance in the singles competition before, and his thinking was very clear. In the first half of the first game, there was a stalemate, and after the battle reached 3-3, Chen Meng/Wang Manyu quickly opened up the score difference and took the lead 11-5.

In the second game, it was quickly opened to 8-1, how to play, and there were basically no unnecessary mistakes, and finally won 11-2 easily; In the third game, it was easily 9-2, and finally won 11-3, and won 3-0 to score the first point for the Chinese team. In 3 games, the opponent scored a total of 10 points, and Chen Meng/Wang Manyu's performance was very strong!

The second singles match was played by Sun Yingsha against Meshef. Meshef, ranked 26th in the world, has some strength, but there is a huge gap in front of Sun Yingsha, who is ranked No. 1 in the world. Sun Yingsha was very strong in the singles, sweeping all of them 4-0 before the final, including top players such as Hina Hayata. But Sun Yingsha gave people the feeling that she had not completely come out of the shadow of the singles defeat in this match.

After leading 2-0 in the first two games, Sun Yingsha made frequent mistakes in the third game, and was pulled away by Meshev after scoring 1 point in the opening game. Although he fought back and used up the timeout, he still did not reverse the defeat, losing one game 8-11. And this timeout did not work at all, and after coming back, Meshev scored 2 points in a row, which undoubtedly reminded people of her performance in the singles final, and her ability to adjust in difficult situations still needs to be improved.

Wang Manyu, who played next, performed well in the singles match, giving Hannah-Gundam a wave of 6-0 in the first game, and finally won easily 11-4; The second game was again 11-4; Perhaps it was too easy to win, Wang Manyu was a little slack in the third game, but was quickly stretched to 7-2 by Hannah Gundam.

After that, Wang Manyu showed us the ability to counterattack in a difficult situation. Starting with an active hand-to-hand fight, he hit high-quality, varied returns in the match-up, destroying Hannah Gundam's defense at once. Tied and overtook all the way, and finally won 11-9, helping the Chinese team sweep Egypt 3-0 to advance to the round of 8. The real strong opponent is still behind, and I hope that Sun Yingsha can get out of the haze of defeat as soon as possible and devote herself to the competition of the women's team.