NAGOYA, Japan, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) — Chinese paddlers had a very good opening day because the 2023 Women’s World Table Tennis (WTT) Finals kicked off in Nagoya, Japan on Friday.
This is the primary time WTT sequence is being held in Japan. The world’s finest 16 ladies’s singles gamers and high eight ladies’s doubles pairs will compete for the season-ending championships.
Having gained the ladies’s singles title at WTT Champions Frankfurt final month, China’s Wang Yidi rallied previous Shin Yu-bin of South Korea 11-6, 11-6, 11-13, 11-5 to safe the primary ticket of final eight.
“Though I started out a little bit nervous, the first two games went unexpectedly well. Then I had a tough challenge from the opponent in the third game, it pushed me to adjust my mindset and try to be more aggressive, fortunately it worked,” stated Wang.
The world No. 2 Wang Manyu emerged victorious 3-0 over Monaco’s Yang Xiaoxin. Wang managed to get better from a 10-7 deficit, touchdown 5 factors in a row to say the primary sport 12-10. The 24-year-old secured the victory with back-to-back sport wins, 11-8 and 11-7.
Zhang Rui claimed an 11-6, 11-7, 12-10 victory over her compatriot and world No. 7 Qian Tianyi, additionally the primary time a higher-ranked participant has been overpowered on this match. Zhang will play towards one other teammate Wang Yidi.
Chen Xingtong edged European Games winner Bernadette Szocs in 5 tight video games, taking revenge on the Romanian who had gained their earlier assembly at WTT Champions Macao earlier this 12 months.
Chen Meng and Hina Hayata of Japan performed one other shut match. After the 29-year-old Olympic champion was dragged right into a decider by her opponent, Chen finally sealed a last-eight berth by profitable the deciding sport 11-7.
World No. 1 Sun Yingsha additionally met robust resistance from Japanese teenage sensation Miwa Harimoto in her first match of the match. After a 2-2 tie in first 4 units, Sun wrapped up her victory with an eight-point streak within the deciding sport.
“This is my second time playing against Miwa Harimoto, she has significantly improved, performed very well today. However it’s good to win the match,” commented Sun.
Han Ying of Germany, Mima Ito of Japan additionally made it to the ladies’s singles final eight.
The 2023 Nagoya Women’s WTT Finals run till Sunday.