On May 17, Beijing time, the men's singles final of the table tennis WTT Cappadocia feeder tournament was released, and the two Japanese teams had joys and sorrows, among which the star of hope and the main force of the new Olympic Games, Shinozuka Daito, was upset, and lost 1-3 to Croatian player Kojik after 4 rounds of hard fighting, stopping in the semi-finals and missing the final round.
However, another Japanese star Yutai Tanaka has defeated the famous player, 3-1 eliminated South Korea's World Table Tennis Championships men's singles third runner-up Ahn Jae-hyun, and is about to compete with Kojik for the championship.
Because the level of this feeder tournament is relatively low, there are not many masters participating in the battle, and the national table tennis has all given up, which gives Japanese players a chance to take the lead. However, compared to the performance of the women's singles victory, the victory and the second place, the advantage of the Japanese men's singles is not so obvious, and finally won half of the four semi-final places.
Shinozuka Daito, born in 2003, is the main member of the Paris Olympics and a rising star with outstanding achievements in foreign wars in recent years; Yutai Tanaka knocked out Wang Chuqin at the Asian Championships last year, and this time he also advanced to the men's singles semifinals with Shinozuka Daito.
After the semi-finals began, Shinozuka Daiden, who eliminated Chinese Taipei world champion Zhuang Zhiyuan 3-1 in the last round, met the mediocre Croatian player Kojik.
After the start of the game, Shinozuka Daito got off to a bad start, losing 9-11 and losing a game. In the second game, Shinozuka successfully counterattacked and pulled one back 11-8. However, in the third game, Shinozuka lost 9-11 by 2 points, and then lost the whole game 7-11 in the fourth game, and was eliminated by Kojik.
In the other semi-final, which also played four games, facing the World Table Tennis Championships men's singles bronze medalist Ahn Jae-hyun, who had beaten Tomokazu Jang to tears, Yutai Tanaka played bravely and eliminated him with a big score of 3-1 (11-9, 11-8, 4-11, 11-7), thus retaining the team's hopes of winning the championship, and will next compete with Kojik.
Although Yutai Tanaka is more well-known than Kojik, considering that Shinozuka Daito has collapsed, it is difficult to predict who will win or lose in the final, so let's sit back and wait for the final battle to begin!