Qian Tianyi beat the Japanese rising star to become the fourth champion, and the China team won 7 gold medals in table tennis at the Universiade.

　　The Beijing News On August 5th, the table tennis field of Chengdu Universiade delivered another good news. Qian Tianyi defeated Japanese rising star Izawa Yukiya 4-3 in the women's singles final to hold the gold medal for China table tennis team. As Zhou Kai and Xu Yingbin have joined forces in the men's singles final, the national table tennis team has won all seven gold medals in the table tennis events of this Universiade. Among them, Qian Tianyi's performance was eye-catching, winning 4 gold medals in women's team, mixed doubles, women's doubles and women's singles.

　　The 21-year-old Izawa Xingjia is a "big black horse" in the table tennis field of this Universiade. In the previous China-Japan women's team finals, she won the national table tennis team's two generals, He Zhuojia and Qian Tianyi, and scored two points for the Japanese team. In the women's singles event, the Japanese star beat Wang Xiaotong in the quarter-finals and went all the way to the finals. In this final, Ding Ning, a famous table tennis player, also came to the scene to watch the game, with Qian Tianyi, the world's sixth-ranked player, shouldering the heavy responsibility.

　　After the game started, Qian Tianyi entered the state a little slowly, losing the first game by 8-11. After that, she quickly adjusted her state and pulled two games with 11 to 5 and 11 to 7. However, Izawa Xing Jia retaliated with an 11-7 draw, and the two sides drew the first four games. In the fifth game, Qian Tianyi resisted his opponent's counterattack and scored 5 points after 6-6, winning 11-6. In the sixth game, Izawa played a routine, quickly opened the score and tied again with 11-8. In the deciding game, Qian Tianyi called a timeout when he called 3-5. After the timeout, Qian Tianyi played more decisively and caught the ball with better quality, and even scored 4 points to overtake the score. In the end, Qian Tianyi defeated her opponent 11-9 and won the women's singles gold medal.

　　Editor Wang Chunqiu