On March 14, 2022, Beijing time, the Singapore Table Tennis Grand Slam ended a focus battle, and Wang Yidi swept 3-0 through Miyu Hirano to advance to the women's singles round of 16.
The main theme of the women's singles arena is the head-on confrontation between Chinese women's table tennis and Japanese women's table tennis, Chinese women's table tennis needless to say, the overall strength is particularly strong, Sun Yingsha, Liu Shiwen, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng, He Zhuojia and others have ranked among the top 16. Japanese women's table tennis also played well, Hayata Hina, Ito Mimachi, Ishikawa Yoshijun has advanced to the round of 16, and the last to appear is Hirano Miyu, her opponent is Wang Yidi.
The two fought fiercely in the first set, with Miyu Hirano taking the lead in getting the set point, but Wang Yidi completed the reversal, winning 2 consecutive points after 11 draws, and won the set 13-11 with difficulty. After that, Wang Yidi's confidence increased greatly, and she also released the pressure, she took a 5-1 lead in the second set, Hirano Miyu's confidence was frustrated, this set was too many mistakes, Wang Yidi won another set 11-7.
In the third set, Wang Yidi continued to work hard to take a 7-4 lead, and Hirano Miyu called a timeout. Unfortunately, the suspension had no effect, Wang Yidi withstood the pressure, won the set 11-8, swept 3-0 away Hirano Miyu, easily advanced to the women's singles round of 16, and the next round against German player Miltham.
So far, the women's singles round of 16 all came out, the national table tennis won 6 seats, Japan only 3 people advanced, considering that Chen Meng eliminated Hitomi Sato before, Wang Yidi eliminated Hirano Miyu, so far, it can be said that the Chinese women's table tennis has won the Japanese women's table tennis. However, the next women's singles quarterfinals have two national table tennis derbies, and up to 4 people in national table tennis can advance to the women's singles quarterfinals.
The women's singles quarterfinals are as follows:
Top half: Sun Yingsha vs Liu Shiwen, Li Haoqing vs Hayata Xina, Wang Manyu vs Diaz, Sutasini vs Polkanova.
Lower half: Wang Yidi vs Miltham, Yuan Jiannan vs Ito Mimachi, Ishikawa Yoshinori vs Zheng Yijing, He Zhuojia vs Chen Meng.
In the men's singles field, Xu Xin played well, eliminating Swedish player Perlson 3-0, and the score of the three sets was 11-9, 16-14, 11-6, Xu Xin did not win easily. Xu Xin will face Germany's Francesca in the next round.
In addition, South Korea's Lim Jong-hoon, who had previously eliminated Lim Go-won, continued to move forward, and he eliminated Ghanaese Karan 3-1, the winner of the next round against Yukiya Utada and Bol!