On July 31, Beijing time, the Paris Olympics table tennis women's singles round of 16 was released, the national table tennis maintained a full victory, and then Sun Yingsha will face India's strong rival Akula, Chen Meng will face Netherlands' Illand, Japan's two main forces Hina Hayada and Miyu Hirano have also all passed, Korea only Shin Yubin is left to advance, some people are happy and some are worried, please see below for detailed battle conditions.
Upper half
The top seed in the top half of the women's singles is national table tennis player Sun Yingsha, who met the mediocre Brazil Juliet in the first round, and won the victory with a very easy 4-0 sweep, and then faced off against the 61-year-old former national table tennis world champion and current Luxembourg main Ni Xialian, as a result of Sun Yingsha's consecutive victories 11-5, 11-1, 13-11, 11-4 to successfully qualify.
It is worth mentioning that before the mixed doubles final the day before, Ni Xialian was also invited by the national table tennis to serve as a sparring partner for Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin, helping them study North Korean players while also teaching the secrets of her long rubber play, which made her more passive in the women's singles against Sun Yingsha, but she said that this is her way of repaying the motherland, which is indeed touching.
Sun Yingsha will face a tough test next, because her opponent is India's long-rubber star Akula, who swept Wang Yidi 3-0 at the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan in February this year, and this Olympic Games has played steadily, eliminating Singapore's Zeng Jian 4-2 in the 1/16 final, and is about to challenge the national table tennis main force again.
The arrangements for the remaining 1/8 finals in the first half are: Zheng Yijing (Chinese Taipei) vs. Bayo (Poland), Diaz (Puerto Rico) vs. Bian Songjing (North Korea), Hina Hayada (Japan) vs. Yuan Jiannan (France) - except for the first game of the athlete strength gap is large, the other three games are of a relatively high level of both sides, and it is difficult to predict who wins or loses.
Lower half
Another national table tennis main Chen Meng swept Loklebby 4-0 in the first match in the second half, and then met Sweden chipper Bergström, Chen Meng encountered some difficulties in this battle, and lost a game first, but soon won four consecutive games to achieve a reversal, thus eliminating the opponent 4-1 (8-11, 11-4, 11-7, 11-9, 11-8), and continued to attack the goal of defending the champion.
Chen Meng's next opponent in the quarter/quarter is Netherlands' Illand, who narrowly defeated Czech Republic's Matlova 4-3 after seven games, while Romania's Szokos defeated Ukraine's Pesotska 4-1 and Austria's Polkanova eliminated Portugal's Shao Jenni 4-2.
The competition in the women's singles 3/4 zone is not particularly fierce, Japan world champion Miu Hirano defeated Hong Kong's Zhu Chengzhu 4-0, and India's monster Batra also won 4-0 against France's rising star Parvard, and the next battle between Japan and India will break out; Korea's fourth seed Shin Yubin knocked out Hungary's Bota 4-1 and United States' Jang An defeated Brazil's Bruna 4-2 in a battle between the winners.
From the perspective of strength comparison, the athletes of the two teams of China and Japan, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Hina Hayata, and Miyu Hirano are undoubtedly the strongest, Szokos, Shin Yubin and others are also strong, and India's Batra and Akula are fully capable of upsetting the situation, and the next round of 16 showdown is bound to be very exciting, looking forward to the national table tennis athletes can successfully qualify.