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The women s singles quarterfinals show a dark horse! The 32-year-old German veteran changed his playing style for his results, and was eliminated at the same time as the world s third-5th

10:39am, 22 August 2025Football

The Swedish Grand Slam women's singles quarterfinals have been released, with Chinese table tennis occupies 4 seats, namely Sun Yingsha, Shi Xunyao, Chen Yi, and Wang Manyu, and the Japanese team occupies 3 seats, namely Mima Ito, Satsuki Oto and Hoshinoka Hashimoto. Another shot was won by German 32-year-old veteran Winter, which is really surprising. It can be said that Winter is a dark horse in this Swedish tournament.

Winter, born in 1992, became famous at a young age, but as she grew older and her characteristics became well-known, her disadvantages in playing style gradually became prominent. In order to improve her table tennis skills, she chose to change her playing style and changed from two sides to backhand anti-arc glue. The change in her playing style has made her performance improve by leaps and bounds, especially when facing Chen Xingtong, the third in the world, she actually won 3-1.

The result of this game surprised many fans. After all, Chen Xingtong has not lost to the foreign war for a long time, and he even scored Winter in the World Cup a few months ago. There are two reasons for losing. One is that Chen Xingtong is in poor health, and the other is that Winter is still in the bonus period of anti-arc rubber, and his playing style is very fierce.

Speaking of Winter's changing style of playing at the age of 32, his teammate Shan Xiaona praised her approach. She said: "Winter has a good chance to continue playing like this. She actually made a very early results. She worked hard every Olympics. She was lucky. She had never participated in the Olympics and became a P card once, but it depends on everyone's adaptation to her. After all, there are still two or three years left for the Olympics. Winter turned out to be weaker backhand and changed the arc defense. Unexpectedly, the ranking rose very quickly. So I said Winter was too inspiring. She loved table tennis so much. She was over 30 years old. When she changed her playing style at this age, her playing system has changed."

Winter's next round opponent is Chen Yi. As a potential rising star of the national table tennis team, Chen Yi has to prove herself this time, and see how she breaks through the opponent's defense and wins the victory with a sharp attack; and for Winter, if she can defeat Chen Yi and kill Chinese players for two consecutive times, it will help her improve her confidence. She has defeated Romania's No. 1 Szokos and won the third place in the world. How dark this dark horse is depends on whether she can pass Chen Yi's level again.

Although 4 golden flowers entered the quarterfinals, what is worrying is that the world's third, fourth and fifth-ranked national table tennis gold flowers have stopped in the quarterfinals. Chen Xingtong, ranked third in the world, lost 1-3 to the world's 40th German player Shabin Winter; Kuaiman, ranked fourth in the world, lost 1-3 to his teammate Shi Xunyao; Wang Yidi, ranked fifth in the world, lost 1-3 to Japanese chopper Hoshi Noka Hashimoto.

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