Hana Goda vs Chen Xingtong | WS R64 | #EuropeSmash 2026

What a world! Everyone's got to decide whether to play a backhand or a forehand. And this is likely to be what we're going to see from these two as we see the calm expression of Chen Xincong, Hannah Goda. On the stool, got one of the best seats in the house for this one. As high as 20 in the world. Trickled long. Yeah, LeBrun brothers are going to finish this session off a little bit later in the men's doubles. Number four seed at her best. She's taken the opening game here. Refused to take a back step. Felt it straight away and this is what I think we're leveraging. Chen Xincong survived them and we went into the metronome of backhand to backhand battle. And this is where for the team China members in both men and women's you might win the first game going to adapt and on you to adapt again. Martin Fang in the corner of Chen Xincong. What goes up? She was under pressure there. She's made all the right adjustments. What a serve! No sign of nerves. Moment to roll the dice and try and take risks. There's an uncomfortable forehand where had to create space and then she's got to try and find ways to not just power your way past. Chen Xincong because and again it forces forehand instead. Again two-point cushion for Goda. That's been the issue a few times for both players. Just mixing it up. Try and find the wide forehand with a backhand I think. She uses it to her advantage. But again what a crucial moment that might need to be. Spin up down the forehand line. This number four seed from China is a master there. Watch for the fast serve that's been coming from Chen Xincong. Backhand and backhand. To stay alive in this third game. At latter stages of games. Very rarely do you see her react. That's a wonderful positive backhand up the line but has it come a few points too late? Is that what we needed to see it at all? There's the reaction out of Chen Xincong. Punches through the back of the ball like Adriana Diaz or Charles Morgard. She can get joy there. The issue is Tongtong is going to start adjusting to it. Four, five, four seed and again that long push from Hong Kong China. Three one so that'll be a tricky time for whoever gets seven. Backhand punch does the damage. It's a wonderful shot with no back lift. It's really interesting now. Does the same again but it's a change. She might call it because this time she attacks it. One more game point. Four seeds control is just on a different planet. How she's able to put you under so much pressure and absorb your attack. Juice game now. That is world class. Those players punch in the Nordic arena. Both risked everything at points. Nagoda to try and not win this with speed I think. She took pace off in that one and then she rips the forehand to send us into a race to 11. Into a decider and the Nordic arena. I tell you what feels like something special might happen here in the Nordic arena. She's like a terminator. This is a little bit more wonderful point as they head towards the first towel break of this deciding game. Again Tongtong. Six now Chen is striding towards the finish line. She's got the Egyptian guessing as to when she can use her forehand. Six three. Such a shame that that point was finished with a net because it was another wonderful one. Scooped it and not even easy for me to say I'm a commentator and not an umpire. Three seven. That right hip launcher forehand or switch up the line early. Head to head at 1-1 and more importantly step into the round of 32. And she does it in style. Pushed to the limit by this young Egyptian who again proves that you can take these dangerous players deep but the control of Chen sits on.