Guoping once again won four gold medals, this time in Budapest.

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　　The first WTT European Summer Series will be held in Budapest from July 11th to 23rd.

Today is the final day of the Star Challenge, which produces four individual champions.

　　As the name suggests, this event is full of stars, basically including all the masters of today, and the competition is fierce.

　　The women's singles final was the first to be held that day, which was a "civil war" between Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi.

In the game, Wang Yidi continued the competitive state that has been improving recently, limited Sun Yingsha's performance by relying on rhythm changes, and was better in grasping key points.

In the end, Wang Yidi defeated Sun Yingsha 4:1 and won the championship.

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　　In fact, after Wang Yidi eliminated Kasumi Ishikawa in the semifinals yesterday, Guoping has already locked the women's singles gold medal in advance.

After that, the World Table Tennis Federation issued an official statement this morning saying that Wang Manyu withdrew from the women's singles semi-final with Sun Yingsha due to a leg injury. She will receive treatment and prepare for the women's doubles final.

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　　In this Star Challenge, Wang Manyu has three events.

In addition to women's singles, she also competed in women's doubles and mixed doubles.

In yesterday's mixed doubles final, Wang Chuqin/Wang Manyu staged a big reversal after losing two games first, and finally defeated the Japanese combination Zhang Benzhi and Hayata Hina 3:2.

　　To what extent is Wang Manyu injured?

In her own words: every time she turned over when she was sleeping at night, she would wake up in pain; every movement in her life from sitting down to standing up would cause her to feel obvious pain.

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　　In fact, Wang Manyu's legs had problems very early.

Dragging her body to the limit, she still chose to grit her teeth and compete for four matches a day, and then she won the mixed doubles championship with her partner Wang Chuqin yesterday.

　　Wang Manyu felt very sorry for missing the women's singles semi-final. She was looking forward to this powerful conversation with her teammate Sun Yingsha.

However, after repeated weighing, Wang Manyu finally chose to withdraw from the singles, seize the time for treatment, and go all out to fight the "foreign war" of the women's doubles.

This selfless spirit of putting the team first is one of the reasons why Guoping is difficult to beat.

　　Wang Manyu's efforts have paid off.

Facing the Japanese combination Mima Ito/Hina Hayata, the world number one Wang Manyu/Sun Yingsha played very patiently.

They always controlled the pace of the game and finally defeated their opponents cleanly 3-0.

After winning the game, Wang Manyu was crowned the double champion of the tournament.

　　The men's doubles final between Liang Jingkun/Lin Gaoyuan and the Korean duo Cho Dae Sung/Lee Sang Soo was inextricable, and every game was fought to the end.

With a maximum of 6 points behind in the tiebreaker, Liang Jingkun/Lin Gaoyuan once caught up to 9 draws, but unfortunately lost in the end and won the silver medal.

　　In the men's singles final, Wang Chuqin's opponent was Sweden's Morregard.

Moregaard is one of the best of the younger generation and a rising star in Europe.

　　However, in the face of Wang Chuqin, who eliminated Grand Slam winner Malone in the semifinals, Moregarde seemed to have few ways to deal with the key ball, and repeatedly fell behind after stalemates.

4:1, Wang Chuqin won the championship as he wished and also became the double champion of this event.

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　　He won four gold medals and took the stage to receive the award.

At this time, some netizens found that compared with the passion released in the competition, the national table tennis players on the podium would incarnate as "ruthless award-winning machines", which seemed not to be active enough.

　　In fact, after the baptism of days of battles and finals, the players will be a little tired, not to mention the next challenge - the WTT Championship Budapest will start tomorrow.

The level of this event is very high, and the gold medalist will receive up to 1000 ITTF World Ranking points, so the competition will be very exciting.

　　In the coming week, continue to pay attention to the performance of Guoping!