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It was just forehand swing. Chen Xingtong lost 1-3 to 40th in Germany, and lost in the match.

10:24am, 22 August 2025【Football】

In the early morning of August 22, in the WTT European Grand Slam Sweden Women's Singles quarter-finals, the Chinese team lost three games, namely Wang Yidi lost 1-3 to Japanese chopper Honoka Hashimoto, Kuaiman lost 1-3 to teammate Shi Xunyao, and Chen Xingtong lost 1-3 to German player Shabin Winter.

It is normal for Wang Yidi and Kuaiman to lose. They both lost to the same opponent in the Yokohama Championship last week in Japan. How did Chen Xingtong lose? It's puzzled.

German player Winter is 32 years old this year and is only ranked 40th in the world. Fans have never noticed her. How did she beat Chen Xingtong, the Yokohama Championship champion last week? I went back to watch the comparison video, which is very interesting to say, and Winter just swung his forehand.

Winter is a player with his right hand horizontal patter, and the front is normal reverse glue, but her back hand is anti-arc glue, which has a smooth surface and does not take turns. Her backhand rubber was recently replaced, and her grades improved after changing the rubber. But Winter's characteristic is not her backhand special rubber, but her powerful forehand arc ball.

Winter almost defeated Wang Yidi in the Yokohama Championship last week. At that time, she led 2-0 in the first two games and was reversed by Wang Yidi after getting the match point 10-8 in the fifth game. Therefore, Chen Xingtong is still prepared for this game.

In the first game, Chen Xingtong won the first game 11-8 by pressing the backhand, stealing the forehand, and then attacking her backhand flaws.

In the second game, Winter decisively attacked with forehand while Chen Xingtong pressed the backhand. Chen Xingtong's backhand tactic failed and was won back by the opponent 11-8.

At the beginning of the third game, Winter led 5-2. Chen Xingtong didn't know how to fight, so he suppressed her backhand, and she attacked with one hand sideways; she hung her forehand, hit her in the face; she served her backhand, but she didn't turn around; she had the chance to attack her, but she made a mistake again. Winter got the game point 10-5, and Chen Xingtong gave up the game 5-11.

In the fourth game, Chen Xingtong was called a timeout when he fell behind 0-2. After the timeout, Chen Xingtong wanted to restrain Winter's forehand attack by sending a short forehand ball, but Winter was in such a good condition. You could suppress her one or two balls, but soon she attacked again. Once her forehand formed an attack ball, it would completely enter her rhythm. No matter how well Chen Xingtong defended, she would attack faster and faster and without making mistakes until she got points. In the end, Chen Xingtong did not find a solution and lost another game 6-11, losing 1-3 to Winter, stopping in the European Grand Slam women's singles quarterfinals.

When dealing with a good player with forehand, of course the best way is to attack with attack, which is faster than him. But when you can't beat him with your forehand, you can only restrain your opponent by pressing your backhand, rotating, swinging, changing lines, and changing rhythm. In this game, because Winter always serves long balls, Chen Xingtong rarely uses short strokes, and he thinks about all other methods, but he really can't beat them.

The reason why Chen Xingtong lost was related to Winter's excitement in this game, and Chen Xingtong seemed to be a little unexcited enough, but I personally think that the more important reason is that the style of the game is incompatible.

Chen Xingtong is a player without sharp attack. She mainly relies on defense, rotation and rhythm to score points when playing basketball, and uses softness to overcome hardness. When facing a player like Winter who is unreasonable and swinging forehand, it is a loss without attack. No matter how strong the shield is, it cannot withstand the crazy attack of the spear.

Of course, we must also be aware that Winter has been playing a long ball recently. Now she not only uses the backhand anti-arc glue to make up for the weakness of the backhand, but also her forehand attack is very accurate in rotation. She also adds changes in line, rotation and rhythm in the continuous attack, and moves very quickly. It is not known who will win against Chinese player Chen Yi in the next round.