Fan Zhendong will fight Xu Xin
On June 16, Beijing time, the 2019 ITTF Japan Open entered the competition for the final day. At present, it is still possible for the Chinese team to win the hardware in theory. In the men's doubles final, fan Zhendong / Xu Xin will compete with Germany's Duda / Qiu Dang combination. There is a foreign Association player in the women's singles top four and Lin Yunru in the men's singles top four. Xu Xin and Zhu Yuling won the mixed doubles championship yesterday. Today's women's doubles final will be between Chen Meng / Liu Shiwen and sun yingsha / Wang Manyu. If Xu Xin can continue to win the men's doubles and men's singles today, the national table tennis' model worker 'will achieve the great cause of the triple crown in this competition.
Chen Meng (China) vs sun yingsha (China)
Chen Meng's 25-year-old women's singles ranked first in the latest world, and sun yingsha's 18-year-old women's singles ranked 18th in the latest world. Sun yingsha has been Chen Meng's' little sister 'since childhood. They also play in the same club in the Table Tennis Super League. In June 2017, sun yingsha first appeared in the adult group open. It was Chen Meng who took her to participate in the Japan open. After arriving in Tokyo, Chen Meng invited sun yingsha to eat beef. Sun yingsha won the women's singles and women's doubles champion that time. Chen Meng was the opponent sun yingsha defeated 4-3 in the women's singles final. At the end of May this year, Chen Meng beat sun yingsha 4-3 in the first round of women's singles in the China open.
Chen Meng won the second place in women's singles at this year's single world table tennis championships and just returned to the first place in women's singles at the beginning of this month. Chen Meng eliminated Japan's Asada hina 4-2 in the first round of the Japanese open, defeated Li Haoqing in Hong Kong 4-0 in the second round, and narrowly defeated Ito's nemesis Gu Yuting 4-3 in the top eight. Sun yingsha defeated South Korea's Xu Xiaoyuan 4-0 in the first round, eliminated Japan's first sister Ishikawa Jiachun 4-0 in the second round, and swept her doubles partner and runner up in women's singles in the last competition Wang Manyu 4-0 in the top eight. It can be seen from sun yingsha's victory over Wang Manyu yesterday that sun yingsha is in a very hot state.
Liu Shiwen (China) vs Meiyu Hirano (Japan)
Liu Shiwen ranked second in the world at the age of 28, and Meiyu Hirano ranked ninth in the latest world at the age of 19. Liu Shiwen is the women's singles champion of Xinke World Table Tennis Championships, and Meiyu Hirano is the champion of women's Table Tennis World Cup in 2016 and women's singles champion of Wuxi Asian Championships in 2017. Meiyu Hirano has always regarded Liu Shiwen as her idol. Her figure and playing method are also similar to Liu Shiwen. They all win by pushing, speed and rhythm changes. However, Liu Shiwen has brought this style into full play, and Meiyu Hirano is still in the process of exploration, learning and promotion. After Liu Shiwen won the World Table Tennis Championships in April this year, Meiyu Hirano wrote in Japanese on her Chinese microblog: 'thank you very much for cheering me on at the world table tennis championships. Finally entered the top eight. Congratulations to Liu Shiwen! When I was a child practicing football, I said: I want to become Ping Meiwen. (I miss it so much) the scene of the final is always in front of me, and I will continue to work hard! "
Liu Shiwen
Meiyu Hirano easily defeated Su Huiyin in Hong Kong, China, 4-1 in the first round of this station. Meiyu Hirano should have played Zhu Yuling in the second round, but Zhu Yuling accidentally lost 4-1 in the first round to 17-year-old Japanese teenager Nagasaki Meiyou. Meiyu Hirano beat Nagasaki Meiyou 4-1 in the second round of women's singles. The top eight draw with Meiyu Hirano should have been against Ding Ning, the number one seed of the game, but Ding Ning lost 2-4 to chopper Sato Tong in the second round. Meiyu Hirano won 4-0 and Sato Tong advanced to the semi-finals. Liu Shiwen defeated Liang Xiayin of South Korea 4-0 in the first round, eliminated Tian Zhixi of South Korea 4-2 in the second round, and defeated teammate Liu Fei 4-1 in the top eight. Liu Shiwen had six clashes with Meiyu Hirano, and Liu Shiwen won all six wars.
Sun Wen (China) vs Lin Yunru (Taipei, China)
The 22-year-old Sun Wen ranked 599 in the latest men's singles world. In this competition, Sun Wen beat the previous men's singles champion Zhang benzhihe 4-0 in the first round of the men's singles. In the second round, Sun Wen beat South Korea's first brother Li Shangzhu 4-1. In yesterday's men's singles top eight, Sun Wen defeated Liang Jingkun, the main force of national table tennis, 4-2. Chinese Taipei 17-year-old Lin Yunru ranked 20th in the world in men's singles. He beat South Korea's Zhao Chengmin 4-3 in the first round and Lin Gaoyuan, the No. 2 seed in the second round. In the top eight, Lin Yunru defeated Brazil's first brother caldrano 4-0.
In the 2018-2019 Table Tennis Super League, Sun Wen's record this season was 12 wins and 17 losses, ranking 13th in the table tennis super individual winning rate list. For Lin Yunru, he should not be very familiar with Sun Wen's way of playing, which is a key factor for Sun Wen to continue to move forward. If Sun Wen can play this game well, the Chinese team can win the men's singles championship and runner up in advance. The key depends on whether he can control his mentality and play his level normally in this game.
Fan Zhendong (China) vs Xu Xin (China)
Fan Zhendong, 22, is currently ranked first in the men's singles world, but only 5 points ahead of Lin Gaoyuan, the second place. Xu Xin, 29, ranks third in the world in men's singles. He is the absolute main force of the Chinese team's doubles. To a certain extent, this game may affect next month's ITTF world ranking. Who will be the first in the men's singles world. Since April last year, fan Zhendong has ranked first in the world for 15 consecutive months, but his international performance has been sluggish in the past six months, and his point advantage is almost gone. In this month's China Hong Kong open, Lin Gaoyuan won the men's singles championship, and his points have increased by about 430 points. Fan Zhendong needs to reach the finals and get 1800 points at least this week, so he is expected to defend his position as the first in the world.
Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin had fought 19 times in international competitions, and fan Zhendong won 12 wins and 7 losses. At the end of 2017, fan Zhendong beat Xu Xin 4-1 in the top eight of the table tennis federation finals, the semi-final of last year's Qatar Open and the men's singles final of last year's Sweden open, and won three consecutive victories against Xu Xin. Fan Zhendong beat teammate Zheng Peifeng 4-1 in the first round of the open, and fan Zhendong beat Yoshimura and Hiro in Japan 4-0 in the second round. In yesterday's men's singles top eight, fan Zhendong beat Malone 4-1 to win the third international competition against Malone. Xu Xin has been in good shape recently. In the first three rounds of this race, he successively defeated Yoshiya Oshima of Japan, Zhuang Zhiyuan, a 38 year old veteran of Chinese Taipei, and Zhang Yuzhen of South Korea.
If Xu Xin can reach the men's singles final today, he will face the situation of playing three games in five and a half hours from 11:30 to 17:00. Du DA / Qiu Dang can stand in front of the Chinese team in the men's doubles final, which shows that this pair of combinations still have certain strength, but fan Zhendong / Xu Xin is more confident of winning from the perspective of strength. If Xu Xin can win the men's doubles and men's singles today, she will become the triple champion of this Japanese open.
Schedule of 2019 ITTF Japan open on June 16
09:00 women's singles semi-final Chen Meng (China) vs sun yingsha (China)
09:50 women's singles semi-finals Liu Shiwen (China) vs Meiyu Hirano (Japan)
10: 40 men's singles semi-final Sun Wen (China) vs Lin Yunru (Taipei, China)
11: 30 men's singles semi-finals fan Zhendong (China) vs Xu Xin (China)
12: 20 women's doubles finals Chen Meng / Liu Shiwen (China) vs sun yingsha / Wang Manyu (China)
13: 10 men's doubles final fan Zhendong / Xu Xin (China) vs Du DA / Qiu Dang (Germany)
15: 00 women's singles final match to be determined
16: 15 men's singles final opponent to be determined