New here (hello!) and I know a lot of the talk here revolves around the Men's competition. But did anybody watch Wang Manyu's games against Gu Yuting/Chen Meng? Kind of curious about the difference in performance - against Gu Yuting Wang Manyu had a lot of variation and was occasionally stepping around to the forehand to attack, at times aggressively. Against Chen Meng, however, she was almost completely passive in comparison. Is there something to Chen Meng's game that shut down Wang Manyu's ability to take the initiative?
1. Chen meng refuted wang's serve, gu yuting had problems with it
2. CM also dictated the short game, 4/5 balls she was the one who decided when to open up the point , regardless if she won it or not
3. She pinned wang in her BH side, probably because she thought she was better or maybe she was afraid of wang's FH or maybe all of the above
4. WMY was indeed passive but I think this was a normal reaction when you have chen meng on the other side and she is on the attacking, CM definitely more explosive and with better recovery in her shots. I think WMY didnt exactly know what to do (or couldnt) in order to stop CM dictating the point
Overall,my imprssion is that CM was simply better at the serve/receive aspect of the game compared to gu yuting. Wang mangyu was indeed a beast when she had initiative but CM tried to stop her from imposing her game and succeeded