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Chengdu ITTF Mixed Team World Cup China Team Defeats Germany Team for Seventh Consecutive Victory

2023-12-10 07:07:27.0 Source: Xinhuanet
Author: Chen Di

On the 8th, the 2023 Chengdu ITTF Mixed Team World Cup continued to compete. The Chinese team defeated the German team 8:1 and ushered in its seventh consecutive victory.

This competition is the first time the ITTF has held a mixed team World Cup, with a best-of-15 game format. After the first group stage, a total of eight teams entered the second stage.

In this competition, famous players Ocharov, Qiu Dang and others are absent, and the overall strength of the German team is greatly reduced. In this game, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha continued to play mixed doubles for the Chinese team. In the first game, the German team’s male player Se Meisnard’s backhand hit and female player Wan Yuan’s forehand hit made the national table tennis team very uncomfortable. They continuously allowed their opponents to attack and lost the first one at 8:11. bureau.

Despite a bad start, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha quickly adjusted their status and won 2:1 in two consecutive games. “I was under some pressure and made some mistakes in the first game.” Wang Chuqin said after the game, “But we quickly adjusted. I think the value of such a game to us may be much greater than a 3:0 win.”

Since then, Wang Manyu and Ma Long, who represented the Chinese team in singles, did not encounter many challenges from their opponents. They both easily won 3:0, helping the Chinese team win 8:1.

Previously, the Japanese team and the South Korean team, which also maintained an unbeaten record in this tournament, met in a narrow road. As the strength of the two teams was evenly matched, the match was very intense, with the score leveling at 3:3. In the men’s singles competition, the contest between Japan’s Tomokazu Hari and South Korea’s Zhang Yuzhen is the focus of this game. As a result, Zhang Yuzhen performed even better and narrowly won 2:1. After that, Zhang Yuzhen went into battle again, and her teammate Lin Jongxun defeated the Japanese men’s doubles team 3:0. In the end, the Korean team won with a total score of 8:4.