October 18, 2022 4:47 pm
The draw ceremony, photo credit: WTT
[Notizie sportive Netease il 18]The World Table Tennis Major League (WTT) Macau station will be held October 19-23, with five men and five players from each national table tennis team. Men’s single Ma Long joined Wang Chuqin to block Zhang Benzhihe, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan fought in the first round of the civil war. Women’s singles Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu are in the same district and Chen Meng and Ito Mima will compete for the semifinals.
32 players each participated in the men’s and women’s singles event at the Macau station of the WTT championship. Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin and Lin Gaoyuan qualified for the men’s national table tennis single and Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi and Chen Xing played together in the women’s single.
Men’s singles Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan are in the first half. Fan Zhendong met Huang Zhenting of Hong Kong, China and Carlsen of Sweden in the first two rounds. In the quarter-finals she could meet the German Francesca and the Slovenian Dakko, the winner.
Liang Jingkun fought Lin Gaoyuan in the first round. The winner will face South Korean Zhang Yuzhen in the second round. After advancing, he will face Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yunru or German veteran Boer in the quarter-finals.
In the second half, Ma Long fought the Japanese player Yukiya Uda in the first round and in the second round he met the German Qiu Dang. Wang Chuqin from the same district will face the Brazilian Hugo Calderano in the first round and the German champion Ochalov, recovering from an injury, in the second round and will try to join forces with Malone. Zhang Benzhihe, who shined in the World Table Tennis Championships, will not meet any Chinese players before moving on to the semifinals, but if he wants to reach the semifinals he will have to beat two famous Swedish players, Falk and Moregarde.
In the women’s singles, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu are in the first half, Sun Yingsha will face the Brazilian Bruna in the first round, and in the second round she will face the winner of the Luxembourg veteran Ni Xialian and Yang Xiaoxin of Monaco, potential opponent in the quarterfinals is Du Kaiqin of Hong Kong or Zheng Yijing of Chinese Taipei.
Wang Manyu, who was in the top half with Sun Yingsha, faced French-Chinese player Yuan Jianan in the first round and faced Chen Siyu of Chinese Taipei or German player Mitram in the second round. After reaching the quarter-finals, Wang Manyu will face Japan’s Kasumi Ishikawa or Hong Kong Li Haoqing.
Second-half Olympic champion Chen Meng and Ito Mima are in the same district and if the two progress successfully they will face each other in the quarter-finals. Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong are also in the lower half. They may meet Han Ying and Shan Xiaona, two Chinese-American players in Germany. The two will try to join forces to secure a spot in the top four.
