Zhou Qihao, international competitions are becoming more and more tough!
This time, the national table tennis sent four World Table Tennis Players to participate in the Slovenia WTT Challenge, the main purpose is to warm up for the World Table Tennis Championships, and the other purpose is to improve the ranking and seek a better World Table Tennis Championships signing.
Zhou Qihao is undoubtedly the most eye-catching one among these four people. First, Zhou Qihao's domestic performance in the past six months is worth circle points, and finally won the world table tennis championship ticket, and the second is that Zhou Qihao's international event results have not been very good, and the world ranking is outside the 100th place, such a ranking should be relatively rare in the national table tennis world table tennis championships.
Zhou Qihao's nickname is "Number Seven", which comes from the harmonic sound of his name. The main player of the national team usually has a total of five people, in the past, he could not even enter the sixth position, let alone the seventh? However, Zhou Qihao has a certain popularity among fans, and out of the idea of the future main force of the national team, people still have greater hopes for him.
However, in the first leg of Slovenia, Zhou Qihao did not perform very well. In the first round of the qualifier, he lost to a Belgian youngster ranked outside the 300th, which made the domestic fans "stunned", and for a time someone shouted: "Malone is back, Zhou Qihao is down". In the doubles qualifiers, Zhou Qihao and Hayashi Takato also lost to a pair of Japanese players Yuta Tanaka / Isamu Kizoku, "who loses can't lose to Japan", "too unsettling", the fans are quite dissatisfied.
But here, Zhou Qihao's bad luck is over. After advancing to the main match with a substitute pair of retired players, the doubles team advanced all the way to the final, and swept Yuta Tanaka / Muzo Muzo 3-0 in the final, successfully revenge, and won the championship. Moving to the second leg, the second round of the qualifying round, the second round, again defeated Yuta Tanaka / Isamu Kizoku 3-0.
On the singles line, zhou Qihao was in good shape in the second leg, defeating compatriot Liu Dingshuo 3-1 in the qualifiers (the runner-up in the singles of the 2021 National Games) to win the derby; after qualifying for the main tournament, he reversed Glasmenco (the runner-up in the first leg) 3-2 in the first round, continuing to remain unbeaten.
Judging from the current situation, the back-to-back WTT Challenge has a good inspiration for Zhou Qihao, and it is getting harder and harder!
The other three table tennis players also successfully advanced in the first round.
On November 11, the first round of the WTT Regular Season Challenge New Mesto was scored as follows.
Men's Singles First Round: Zhou Qihao 3-2 Glasmenko, Wang Chuqin 3-1 Robertus, Liang Jingkun 3-0 Shibayev, Lin Gaoyuan 3-0 Philippe Zeliko, Moregard 3-0 Pukal, Carlberg 3-1 Yuki Tanaka, Muzo Yongren 3-2 Falke, Simon Goek 3-2 Yancarrick, Dako Jochik 3-0 Akuzu, F-Lebran 3-1 Zhuang Zhiyuan, K-Carlson 3-0 Habesson Women's Singles First Round: Wang Yidi 3-0 Pawad, Liu Weishan 3-0 Miltheim, Shan Xiaona 3-0 Pikrien, Fu Yu 3-1 Kosital, Lin Ye 3-2 Pota, Ni Xialian 3-0A Solja (Austria), Shao Jieni 3-1 Materova, Sen Yingshou 3-0 Murlett.
In the later games, to what extent Zhou Qihao can play, it is not easy to say now, the strongest opponent is still from his teammates. Judging from Zhou Qihao's hard performance in the second station so far, it is obvious that the failure lessons of the first stop were summed up in time. But the specifications and level of the WTT Challenge cannot be compared with the World Table Tennis Championships. So, when Zhou Qihao arrived in Houston, what kind of game could he play? It's hard to say now. Crazy, anyone can win, once the state can not be adjusted, it is difficult to say how far can go. But at least for now, Zhou Qihao is on the right track.