Hold onto your paddles 🏓—China's table tennis stars are blazing through the WTT Champions Incheon, with Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong leading the charge into the quarterfinals! In a nail-biting all-Chinese showdown, top-seeded Wang Yidi outlasted Qian Tianyi in a 15-13 fifth-game thriller 💥. 'It felt like a Squid Game moment,' fans tweeted 📱, as Wang clawed back from a 3-0 deficit in the decider to secure victory.
Meanwhile, Chen Xingtong crushed South Korea's Joo Cheon-hui in a swift 3-0 sweep, setting up a high-stakes rematch with Japan's Mima Ito 🔥. Fans are calling it the 'East Asian Table Tennis Clash of the Year.'
On the men's side, Lin Gaoyuan battled past Germany's Dimitrij Ovtcharov 🕺, winning 3-1 to advance. Next up? A face-off with Lee Sang-su—South Korea's veteran star 👴🏓—in what promises to be an electric semifinal!
Though Kuai Man's run ended against Japan's Miwa Harimoto 🥲, Team China’s dominance remains unshaken. With three players still in the mix, the 🥇 gold looks increasingly within reach 🌟.
