The Olympic Games entered the second day of competition, and the men's and women's singles of table tennis also ushered in the 1/32 finals, the world's No. 1 Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin played successively, and the two were not hindered too much, and Sasha swept the opponent 4:0 in a row; The big head lost a game first, reversed 4:1, and both of them advanced to the top 32.
The Shatou pair had comfortably advanced to the quarterfinals in yesterday's mixed doubles; On this match day, the two took the lead in the singles match, Sun Yingsha took the lead in the first stage against Brazil's Takahashi Juliet, and in the first game, Sasha took only 9 minutes to beat her opponent 11-3 and easily won the first game.
In the second game, Brazil strengthened its swing on the offensive end, biting the score tighter, plus a lucky tennis ball, once chasing the score to 8-6; However, Sasha exerted a little force, and scored 3 points in a row on several consecutive boards, 11-6! The big score has come to 2-0!
The last 2 games were the same as the 2 games, Takahashi-Juliet occasionally resisted, but it was difficult to bring any threat to Sasha, 11-6, Sasha won the third game; In the last game, after getting the match point, Sasha directly scored a service to end the game, 11-5! It only took 26 minutes for Sun Yingsha to sweep Takahashi-Juliet 4:0 and easily won the place in the top 32. Sasha's next women's singles opponent will be Luxembourg's 61-year-old Chinese veteran Ni Xialian.
Wang Chuqin's first-round opponent was Wang Yang, a Chinese player from Slovakia, who may have been slow to enter the first game and lost the first game 7-11 because of his opponent's chipper and his Olympic singles debut. After adapting to the opponent's style of play, the big head gradually found a way to cope, scoring multiple points in the attack with continuous forehand smashes, 11-3 and 11-4! Wang Chuqin won 2 games in a row to overtake the score to 2:1!
In the 4th game, Wang Yang used continuous mobilization to confront Wang Chuqin, and the big head even fell behind 7-8 in the small score; Then Wang Yang called a timeout, and after Wang Chuqin returned to the game, he pulled the rush and adjusted the angle, and won another game 11-9. As soon as the fourth set came up, Wang Chuqin scored 1 point with several forehand smashes in a row, and then scored 5 points in a row, stretching the score to 7-2 in one fell swoop! When it came to 10-4 of the match point, the big head attacked with a forehand and mobilized the opponent, and the last sideways volley ended the game, 4:1! The next round opponent will be Sweden's star and World Table Tennis Championships men's singles runner-up Moregard.
Considering that the opponents in the first round are not too strong, it is reasonable for Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin to advance to the top 32; As the world No. 1, the two are naturally the favorites to win the championship. In tonight's Mixed Doubles quarter-finals, Sha Tou will continue to play together against Chinese Taipei's Lin Yunru.