Xinhua News Agency, Chengdu, September 29 (reporter Xu Ru) on the 29th, the 2018 Women’s World Cup of the International Table Tennis Federation opened in Chengdu. Liu Guoliang, vice chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, attended the opening ceremony.
After the 28th qualifier and the 29th top 16 and 8th finals, Ding Ning and Zhu Yuling of the Chinese team, Japanese players Kasumi Ishikawa, chen Yijing of the Chinese Taipei team and other four players defeated their opponents and advanced to the top four. The four players will play against each other in the semi-finals and finals on the 30th, which will impact the 2018 Women’s Cup champion.
For fans, one of the biggest highlights of this World Cup is whether Zhu Yuling can defend the champion of women’s singles. In the 2017 women’s honor World Cup, Zhu Yuling and Liu Shiwen fought hard for seven games and finally won the championship with a 4:3 reversal, winning the World Cup for the first time, which was also the first three of the world’s greatest matches singles champion in her career. In this competition, Zhu Yuling defeated the Swedish player eholm and the Austrian player polcanova with a score of 4:0, and easily promoted.
A total of 20 players in the Women’s Sports World Cup have obtained the qualification. Ding Ning, as the champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, has automatically obtained the qualification. Except for the bronze medal winner of the Rio Olympic Games and the North Korean player Jin Songyi, who took the foreign card to participate in the competition, the rest of the participating seats were generated from the Continental Cup, including the Asian Cup champion Zhu Yuling, the African Cup champion meixie Fu, pan America Cup champion Zhang Mo, Oceania Cup champion Hong Jianfang and European Cup champion szokos.