On October 8, Beijing time, the 2024 Asian Table Tennis Championships will start. Later today, the national table tennis women's team ushered in the challenge of the North Korean women's team. In the men's team competition earlier today, world No. 1 Wang Chuqin lost to the 14-year-old Iran youngster, but fortunately, the men's team was in danger. In today's women's team competition, several masters of national table tennis all went into battle and strived to win quickly. Sun Yingsha was the first to represent the national table tennis women's team and attracted much attention.
Sun Yingsha's opponent is North Korea's dark horse, Kim Qinying, a mixed doubles silver medalist at the Paris Olympics. Kim Eun-young, a teenager, shone at this year's Paris Olympics and finished runner-up in the mixed doubles. Against Sun Yingsha today, no one expected that she would be able to defeat Sun Yingsha in four straight games.
In the first game, the two played very closely, because they had just competed in the Chinese Grand Slam and flew to Kazakhstan non-stop, Sun Yingsha fought with fatigue, and at the same time had to adapt to the new court and table, which made her unable to find her form. Sun Yingsha and Jin Qinying played very close scores, and the two fought to a key point, and Sun Yingsha narrowly won the first game 13-11.
In the second game, Sun Yingsha was a big surprise, she made low-level mistakes in a row, and kept giving Jin Qinying points, Jin Qinying's morale was greatly boosted, and she played out in waves, and got the match point 10-2, and then Jin Qinying cashed in the game point and defeated Sun Yingsha 11-2, and the big score was tied 1-1. Sun Yingsha felt the pressure.
In the third game, Sun Yingsha's state was still not online, and Jin Qinying played a 7-2 start, leaving Sun Yingsha behind. Sun Yingsha chased 2 points in a row, stopped Jin Qinying, and when she came back from the game, Sun Yingsha continued to chase points. But after that, Kim Qinying extended the lead, won the game point again at 10-7, and took the next game again at 11-8, and the big score was already 2-1 ahead of Sun Yingsha.
The crucial fourth game came, Sun Yingsha had been forced to the edge of the cliff, and Kim Qinying was still in hot shape, scoring 2 points in a row at the beginning. Although Sun Yingsha tied the score, there were consecutive mistakes after that, and Kim Qinying continued to maintain the lead. In the second half of the game, Kim Jinying continued to attack and won the game 11-6. So far, Kim Qinying defeated Sun Yingsha 3-1 and grabbed a point for the North Korean women's team in the hands of the world's No. 1 athlete.
Sun Yingsha lost to the North Korean player, which was a big upset in this event. However, considering the fatigue of the athletes, this is also understandable, and I believe that Sun Yingsha and her teammates can quickly adjust their condition and win the next game!