Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen made a good start for the Chinese team in the mixed double 1/4 final. They defeated the South Korean group Zhao Dacheng/Shen Yubin to advance to the top four and won the mixed double participation right in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games at the same time.
Xinhua News Agency, Zhengzhou, December 12 (Reporter Liu Gaoyang, Li Jiannan) the final of the 2019 International Table Tennis Federation World Tour was held at the Zhengzhou Olympic Sports Center on the afternoon of the 12th. Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen made a good start for the Chinese team in the mixed double 1/4 final. They defeated the South Korean group Zhao Dacheng/Shen Yubin to advance to the top four and won the mixed double participation right in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games at the same time.
In terms of other mixed pairs, Japan portfolio Jun Mizutani/ITO Meicheng 3:0 beat the French combination Flore/gasneil, Chinese Taipei combination Lin Junru/Zheng Yi Jingyi 3:0 beat the Hungarian combination szudi/Pegel, Hong Kong, China combination huangzhen Ting/dukeyi beat the Slovak combination pisteye/barazova 3:0, the three winning pairs also won the mixed doubles right to participate in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
In the competition between Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen and Zhao Dacheng/Shen Yubin, Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen gained a huge advantage of 7:2 in the first game, and soon won by 11:3. In the second game, the South Korean group and Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen got entangled to 4 square meters, and then lost points in a row and lost another game. In the third game, Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen started with 3:5 and then fell behind with 7:9. At the critical moment, Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen showed the strength of the mixed double world, reversed by 12:10 and won by three straight games.
Xu Xin said: “For me, the most important thing is mixed pairs, because it is directly related to the Olympic quota, and we are very well prepared.”
After getting the qualification for the Olympic Games, Liu Shiwen said that this was only the beginning, and winning the Olympic gold medal was the ultimate goal.