Original title: WTT World Cup Final: Sun Yingsha wins women’s singles, Wang Chuqin dominates men’s singles
On October 30, the 2022 Xinxiang WTT World Cup final held the men’s and women’s finals. Eventually, Sun Yingsha won the women’s singles championship and Wang Chuqin won the men’s singles championship.
Among them, Sun Yingsha 4-3 Chen Meng, the seven rounds were 4-11, 11-4, 11-8, 12-10, 6-11, 10-12, 12-10.
Wang Chuqin 4-2 Zhang Benzhi and (Japan), the six rounds were 8-11, 11-8, 11-9, 11-8, 8-11, 11-7.
Prior to the start of the competition, Liu Guoliang, Chairman of the Board of the WTT World Table Tennis Federation, First Vice President of the ITTF, President of the China Table Tennis Association, and Steve Denton, Director of the WTT World Table Tennis Federation and CEO of ITTF Group, gave speeches respectively, thanking all parties involved in supporting the success of this event.
Then the game begins. The first is the women’s singles final, where Sun Yingsha, world number one, plays against Chen Meng, world number two. Looking back on this season’s WTT series performance, Chen Meng won the first WTT Singapore Grand Slam Women’s Single Championship earlier in the year and Sun Yingsha just won the WTT Macau Championship 2022 Women’s Single Championship. meet in major tournaments.
After the start of the game, the two sides immediately entered confrontation mode, and multiple confrontation rounds appeared frequently; in the first game, Chen Meng, who had fewer mistakes, first won 11-4, but Sun Yingsha then retired with 11-4 in the second game, the first two games were 1-1. At the start of the third game, the game stalemate worsened and the score continued to rise staggeringly.With his wonderful performance at the end of the game, Sun Yingsha won two consecutive games with 11-8 and 12-10, and the big score reached 3-1.
Chen Meng, who was in a passive situation, made effective changes in the fifth game, reduced his mistakes and successfully retired a game with 11-6. Entering the sixth game, Chen Meng continued to chase points when he was behind by a high score, and ultimately won the game 12-10, dragging the game into the seventh game. In the tiebreak, Sun Yingsha established the lead earlier, Chen Meng tightened the score and chased up to 10-10; at the critical moment, Sun Yingsha scored consecutively, won 12-10 and won the championship with a total score of 4- 3. This is also the second main event singles championship of the WTT World Table Tennis Federation that he has won within a week after the Macau station.
The men’s final will be followed by the Japanese Tomokazu Hakamoto, currently fourth in the world, against Wang Chuqin, who recently climbed to seventh place in the world. Looking back on the performance of this season’s WTT series, Wang Chuqin won the WTT Star Challenge Budapest Station and the WTT Macau Championship 2022. Zhang Benzhi once won the men’s single WTT Championship Budapest Station. The last time the two teams played against each other not long ago, in the semifinals of the just-concluded Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships.
After the start of the match, multi-shot stalls frequently appeared, both teams showed excellent competitive status, and the score was always tight. In the first two games, both teams won a game by the same score of 11-8. After the start of the third game, Zhang Benzhihe started smoothly and took the lead by establishing an advantage; in the second half, Wang Chuqin showed a strong stalemate, gradually overriding the score and winning the game 11-9. In the fourth game that followed, Wang Chuqin got off to a good start and resisted the momentum of Zhang Benzhihe’s point chases, leading the next game 11-8, leading 3-1 in total.
In the fifth game, the two teams were still stalled and the scoring alternated. Zhang Benzhi and eventually resisted the pressure to bring back an 11-8 game, tying the big score to 2-3. The match has entered the sixth match. After Zhang Benzhihe took a short lead early on, Wang Chuqin gradually recovered. After a brief stalemate in the middle of the game, Wang Chuqin gradually opened the score and eventually won the game 11-7, thus winning the game with the total. The score of 4-2 won the Scudetto. This is also his second WTT Main Event single title in a week after the 2022 WTT Macau Championship.
