Lin Shidong became the first person to qualify for the 2025 Table Tennis World Cup, and Wang Yidi actually lost to the competition system

Withstanding the pressure and defeating Poland's Radzimski, world No. 1 Lin Shidong won 2 games and 2 wins in Group 1 of the 2025 Macau World Cup Table Tennis Tournament, becoming the first player of the Chinese team to advance to the round of 16.

World No. 1 Lin Shidong didn't let the upset happen, and he withstood the pressure from a game down to defeat Poland's Redzimski

After defeating Australia's Pei Huan in straight sets in the first round of the group, Lin Shidong faced Poland's 18-year-old rising star Redzimski in the second round of the group on the 16th, and won three games in a row after falling behind 0-1, and finally reversed 3-1 to get the first ticket to the round of 16 for the Chinese team.

In addition to Lin Shidong, China's Liang Jingkun also won 2 games and 2 wins in Group 4 (beating Hong Kong's Wong Chun-ting and Australia's Lam Man Zheng); However, Huang Youzheng lost to Japan's Tomokazu Yamamoto in Group 3, and China lost one men's singles as a result. As for China's other two fierce generals, Wang Chuqin (Group 2) and Lin Gaoyuan (Group 10), they got off to a good start in their respective groups and are waiting for the second round. Other men's singles players who have won two straight group games are Sweden's Moregaard (Group 6), Japan's Daito Shinozuka (Group 11) and South Korea's Ahn Jae-hyun (Group 13).

In the Women's Singles, defending champion and world No. 1 Sun Yingsha of China also won two consecutive victories in Group 1 to advance to the round of 16 after defeating Chinese Taipei's Jian Tongjuan 3-1.

Previously, Sun Yingsha defeated Canada's Zhang Mo 4-0 in the first round of women's singles. Sun Yingsha said after the game: "Successfully entered the knockout round, there are more and more difficulties and challenges behind, and I hope to have a better mental outlook when I enter the knockout round, and I will go all out to fight one game at a time."
In addition, Chinese women's singles Chen Xingtong and Kuo Man also won in the first round of their respective groups, but Wang Yidi unexpectedly lost 1-3 to France's Yuan Jiannan in Group 3.

After beating Chinese Taipei's Chien Tongjuan 3-1, Sun Yingsha won two consecutive victories in Group 1 to successfully advance to the round of 16

Although Wang Yidi defeated Portugal's Shao Jieni 4-0 on the 16th, because Yuan Jianan drew 2-2 with Shao Jieni in the first round, Wang Yidi and Yuan Jiannan won 5 games. This World Cup introduces a new system, the group stage 4 rounds system, play 4 rounds to end, the final comparison of the number of players to win, the same number of wins in the case of the same number of wins to compare the relationship between the winner and the loser, each group only the first place can advance to the second stage. As for the players who successfully qualified from the group stage, they also included Japan's Satsuki Oto, Hina Hayada and Miwa Zhangmoto, and Chinese Taipei's Zheng Yijing.

Wang Yidi's exit was defeated by himself, and if he can play the first game of the group stage with Yuan Jianan, he will not suffer the fate of being out. The second is to lose to the new rules of the International Table Tennis Federation. When the ITTF designed this rule, the main purpose was to fill the suspense of the group stage, and in addition to not allowing any loss in every game, but also to fight for every game and every point. Its group stage ranking does not look at the relationship between wins and losses first, because it has been said that if each group stage is played in 4 games, there will be one of the three score results of 4-0, 3-1 or 2-2. The purpose is to require players to win more games, win more points, if you win more games, then directly 3 games and 2 wins will be over, no need to play 4 rounds.

Many referees in the table tennis industry believe that if every point is encouraged, the ITTF should design the rules so that everyone plays two games in the group stage, first look at the win-loss ratio of your game, and then look at the win-loss ratio of your score if the win-loss ratio of the game is the same. In this way, there will be no situation where Wang Yidi will miss the qualification in advance if he does not play well in the first game. And the sweep of Shao Jenni on the 16th has also become a routine battle of honor, and the suspense and watchability of the game are gone, which is obviously contrary to the principle of fighting for every point determined before the International Table Tennis League.

Chinese star Wang Yidi unexpectedly lost 1-3 to France's Yuan Jiannan in Group 3 and finally missed the qualification

Before the game on the 16th, Wang Yidi's group qualification situation is currently that Yuan Jianan, who has played 2 games, has a win-loss ratio (number of wins/losses) of the game is 5/3=1.6666, Shao Jieni is 2/2=1, Wang Yidi is 1/3=0.3333, and is currently Yuan Jianan's temporary group leader. If Wang Yidi can win 4:0 against Shao Jieni in the last game, then the win-loss ratio of her game will also come to 5/3=1.6666.

If the win-loss ratio of the game is the same, if you look at the win-loss ratio of the scores, that is, the total points/total negative points of the two games, whoever has the highest win-loss ratio will be the top of the group and advance to the second stage of the knockout round. Therefore, Wang Yidi must first ensure that he wins four games in a straight game, otherwise even if he wins 3:1, it will be in vain, and there is no hope of catching up with Yuan Jiannan in terms of the win-loss ratio of the game. If Shao Jieni is swept 4:0, Wang Yidi will also let Shao Jieni score as few points as possible in each game, such as winning 11:0 is the best, so it is very beneficial to Wang Yidi when calculating the win-loss ratio of the score.

To sum up, if you use the promotion method of looking at the win-loss ratio of your game first, if the win-loss ratio of the game is the same, and then looking at the win-loss ratio of your score, it can not only fill the suspense, but also make the highlights of the game continue to the last game, and Wang Yidi will also usher in the opportunity to advance.