Impressive on the opening two days of play at the ITTF World Tour China Open in Changchun, Ng Wing Nam excelled on the third day of action in the northern Chinese city.
She caused a major shock in the Women’s Singles event, successfully partnered Guang Mengyuan in the Women’s Doubles event to an opening round win and reached the final of the Under 21 Women’s Singles event.
It was both a busy and most successful day for the 20 year old.
Safely through two days of qualification matches, in the Women’s Singles event, Ng Wing Nam caused a major shock in the opening round by beating Germany Wu Jiaduo, the no.14 seed and the 2009 European Women’s Singles champion.
A difficult adversary, short pimpled rubber on the forehand, the fast attacking style of the German has caused many an adversary problems; not Ng Wing Nam, she was more than equal to the task and posted a six games win (6-11, 11-9, 11-8, 10-12, 11-4, 11-6).
The win came after earlier in the day Ng Wing Nam had partnered Guan Mengyuan to a first round Women’s Doubles success against the Korean partnership of Jee Dayong and Kim Byeiolnim; the fifth seeds, the Hong Kong duo was in no mood for charity, they recorded a straight games win (11-5, 17-15, 11-6).
Success in the Women’s Singles and Women’s Doubles event Ng Wing Nam completed the day unbeaten.
The no.1 seed, she progressed to the final of the Under 21 Women’s Singles event beating the Japanese duo of Sakura Mori (12-14, 16-14, 11-9, 11-7) and Eka So (11-8, 9-11, 4-11, 14-12, 11-7, 11-9) before securing her place in the final by ousting Singapore’s Zhou Yihan, the no.6 seed (6-11, 11-2, 9-11, 11-5, 11-9, 11-8).
In the final to be played on Saturday 15th June, Ng Wing Nam meets Japan’s Miyu Kato.
A fine effort from Ng Wing Nam and it somewhat overshadowed the splendid performance of Guan Mengyuan.
In the Women’s Singles event she performed most creditably, losing to Li Xiaoxia, the Olympic and World champion (11-8, 1-5, 11-9, 11-6); whilst in the Under 21Women’s Singles event she beat Japan’s Shiho Matsudaira, the no.2 seed (11-8, 12-10, 11-8) before losing narrowly in the quarter-finals to Mima Ito, also from Japan (12-10, 11-5, 6-11, 11-5, 6-11, 11-5).
