June 14th, the semi-finals.

"Jing Xing, accompany me to watch the game in the afternoon." After the men's singles match in the morning and the women's singles match in the afternoon, Zhao Yuan wanted to pull Jing Xing to watch the women's singles semifinals.

Jing Xing didn't want to go, "Don't go, what's so good about the girls' competition, it's better to go to training." ”

"Go, go, how about I train with you after the game?" Zhao Yuan and Jiang Yungu entered the national team in the same year as the provincial team, and he wanted to cheer for Jiang Yungu, "Besides, Li Liang pulled the captain away, and there is no one to accompany you even if you want to train." ”

"Li Liang? He also went to watch the women's team play? Why? ”

"Today is his little sister's competition, the child entered the semifinals for the first time in an international competition, Li Liang said that he would broadcast the whole process to their coach," Zhao Yuan shook Jing Xing vigorously, "Go ahead, go back, go back and invite you to eat multigrain pancakes for a week, how about it?" ”

The temptation of multigrain pancakes was too great, Jing Xing thought about it and agreed, mainly because there was no one to train with him.

The battle between Jiang Yungu and Su Nian has also attracted the attention of domestic fans, both of them are young players, Jiang Yungu has played in the Open Tournament before and achieved good results, some fans are very concerned about her, and Jiang Yungu is listed as the strongest sixth person, and there is a lot of discussion about the two of them on the forum.

[Jiang Yungu's winning rate is bigger, she has won Su Nian's domestic competition before. 】

[If you want to say that the winning rate must be Jiang Yungu, she has been in the main force for more than a year, and the coach is still an iron-blooded coach like Niu Yong. 】

[I still hope that the group wins, I hope we also have a strong post-00s, and we can't let Japan surpass it!] 】

[Japan's competitive pressure is not as great as our national table tennis, so the young players can come out quickly, and our young players should not be bad in terms of strength, but they are pressed by the main force and have no way to come out so quickly. 】

[Also, this time it is said that they are all young generals, and Jiang Yungu and Su Nian are left after fighting so far? ] 】

[To be honest, the signing of the group is too hard, Hong Kong's Du Qin, Singapore's Feng Qing, today is Jiang Yungu, if you win, the final will be Li Shan, right? ] 】

[It's too early to say that you won, it is estimated that the winning rate of today's group is less than 30%]

Su Nian also knows that Jiang Yungu is the strongest opponent she has encountered so far in this competition, and she and Jiang Yungu have not fought again since the national youth competition, but Su Nian imitates other people's playing styles to be the main force as a sparring partner most of the time, so she is very familiar with Jiang Yungu's current playing style, Jiang Yungu is good at backhanding, which is very common in the women's line, but Jiang Yungu's twisting and pulling technology, under Coach Niu Yong, is very strong, and the last Grand Slam player brought out by Coach Niu Yong is famous for his violent twisting and pulling technology.

On the contrary, Jiang Yungu didn't know Su Nian's style of play, she never played against Su Nian after Guoqing, and she usually didn't have the opportunity to play with Su Nian, after two years, this was the first time she met Su Nian in the international arena.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the women's singles semifinals began.

"CCTV, here is the 2017 ITTF Japan Open semi-finals scene, both sides of this match are young players from China, one is a 16-year-old Su Nian, the other is an 18-year-old Jiang Yungu, these two players performed very well in this competition, especially Su Nian, the first time to participate in the international competition, all the way through, defeated many famous players, including Germany's Shan Xiaona, Hong Kong's Du Qin, Singapore's Feng Qing, are very strong opponents, When he came to the semi-finals, he had to face Jiang Yungu, who was two years older than him and entered the national first team a year earlier, and was ranked 43rd in the world. The commentary for the semifinals is still the familiar Yang Ying, and there is also a commentator Lin Qiang.

Lin Qiang added: "The opponents Su Nian encountered, everyone's playing style is different, Shan Xiaona is a direct shot and fast attack style, and Feng Qing is a horizontal shooting two-sided play, which shows that Su Nian, a post-00 generation, has a good strain to various playing styles and has strong comprehensive ability." At the same time, in this game, according to the tradition of the national team, when both sides are national table tennis players, there is no coach on the sidelines, which also tests the two athletes' interpretation of the game and their adaptability on the court."

"That's right, at the same time, the battle in this half of Jiangyungu is also very exciting, she has defeated two Japanese players, especially yesterday's match against Japanese players, played 7 rounds, and finally won the reversal, the fight was very intense", Yang Ying and Lin Qiang have high expectations for this match, and first gave a general introduction to the history of the two athletes' competition.

At the beginning of the game, Su Nian served, Jiang Yungu used his outstanding technical characteristics - twisting and pulling to receive the serve, but Su Nian had already prepared for her twisting, so her serve was not directly sent in Jiang Yungu's backhand position, but in the middle position, the ball went out of bounds, Su Nian let out a small "roar", and cheered herself up with a milky voice.

On the second ball, Su Nian used the same serve, Jiang Yungu twisted and pulled again, but Jiang Yungu strained quickly, she saw that Su Nian was prepared for her twisting, all changed the landing point, and then used a large angle to turn Su Nian away, causing Su Nian's return error, and the score was 1:1.

Su Nian is only about 1.55 meters, and she is not only not tall, but her hands are also relatively short, especially in the face of Jiang Yungu, whose height and arm length are one section longer than herself, the area of the platform has become her biggest shortcoming, and Jiang Yungu used this to defeat Su Nian in the previous national youth competition.

The back and forth of these two points made Su Nian see that Jiang Yungu's strength was by no means as thin as the opponents she had encountered before, especially since she hadn't played each other for two years, it was obvious that Jiang Yungu had risen.

Su Nian knew that he must not take it lightly, and he could not give Jiang Yungu another chance to adjust his big angle.

Jiang Yungu served, the ball rose high, Su Nian saw the opportunity, turned sideways directly, exploded with his forehand, passed the board, and scored.

"Good shot!" , Yang Ying sighed, "At the beginning, this little girl played so violently, and she showed her momentum."

"I'll go, Li Liang, is your little junior sister's style of play so violent? This sideways, no one has ever used the women's line before! Zhao Yuan was stunned when he saw this sideways explosion.

Li Liang smiled innocently and raised his head proudly, "Of course, I told you that my little junior sister has a very good talent." ”

Jiang Yungu served again, and Su Nian also began to use a large angle to open Jiang Yungu, so that Jiang Yungu could not stand still, and some of the hatred was avenged on the spot.

Su Nian and Jiang Yungu's style of play both belongs to playing fastball, and the two of them skipped the stage of mutual testing at the beginning, and directly began to play and attack, seize the initiative, and basically score on the first three boards.

The score came to 4:2, Su Nian was ahead, Jiang Yungu suddenly changed the serve and sent a middle long ball, Su Nian was not prepared, split out of bounds, and the score was 4:3.

Su Nian served, she continued her previous serving skills and tactics, but she didn't expect Jiang Yungu to make a light adjustment and raise the ball, but with the addition of spin, Su Nian misjudged, and the ball went out of bounds again when the forehand exploded. The mistake of two points in a row made Su Nian stomp her foot in annoyance, and she paused and warned herself not to be impatient.

She began to quickly come up with countermeasures, the previous scoring methods on both sides of the middle tone, Jiang Yungu didn't seem to have found a solution, she used this technique and tactics again, and sure enough, she scored two points in a row.

"It seems that Su Nian entered the game faster than Jiang Yungu, and during yesterday's match with the Japanese player, we can also feel that Jiang Yungu is relatively slow to enter the game, and we have to see if she has a solution later", commentator Lin Qiang looked at the situation on the field and analyzed.

The score soon came to 9:7, Su Nian was still two points ahead, but the difference was not big, the key point, Jiang Yungu served.