On the first match day of the World Table Tennis Championships, it can be said that both Japan and South Korea have encountered no small challenges, and have also experienced some setbacks. For example, Yukiya Utada, who had a particularly outstanding performance in Japan's domestic league and won the championship, was eliminated 1-4 when facing the German substitute Oka Dang (replacing the injured Ochalov), and did not qualify for the next round. In addition, South Korea's two famous players, Jang Woo-jin and Ahn Jae-hyun, were also not spared, and they were eliminated by Skachekov and Karnak 3-4 in the first round of matches.
Why these three Japanese and Korean celebrities were eliminated in the first round, and before everyone was still very optimistic about their play, the current situation, we can analyze from the following aspects, can also be used as some reminders or inspirations to the national table tennis players. The first aspect is that for players, they need to have confidence, but they also need to have a deep understanding of the opponent's playing style and characteristics. That is to say, either you need to do what you hit and I hit mine, really exert your own superior technology, and achieve comprehensive suppression of your opponents. Either that we must give restrictions on the characteristics of the other party, use our own strengths to play the opponent's short, restrictions and anti-restrictions are also a key to winning the table tennis game. Obviously, in the match with Yukiya Yau, he basically did not play out the characteristics of his attack, but was used by Yau Dang to take advantage of his height and arm length to continuously exert pressure on the offensive end, resulting in Utada Yukiya having difficulty gaining the upper hand in both the first three boards and the stalemate stage, and losing became inevitable.
For Zhang Yuzhen, his loss to Skachikov' game, the whole game process is enough to show that Zhang Yuzhen's ability to grasp the key points is still not fully handled, and he himself is more obvious on the field than the opponent' ups and downs. The whole game process is a bit like a fierce fly in a competition with the opponent's hard power, and this is often where Asian players are not good at, using their shortcomings and the strengths of the opponent to compete. Obviously, Zhang Shouzhen did not have the upper hand in the face of the experience of the tall Russian veteran Skachekov, even if he was the ninth seed of this tournament, the 12th player in the world, still did not qualify for the first round and was eliminated early.
For Ahn Jae-hyun, he was the top four player of the last World Table Tennis Championships, although he was not old, but in the game, the strength of the fight and attack was still impressive, but this time facing Kanak, obviously, when he appeared on his own offensive opportunities, he sometimes seemed too stable, too easy to score, and the opponent's straight line attack penetrated his defense line again and again, resulting in An Jae-hyun playing in the game is not confident enough, directly affecting his play, often in the first three boards have lost points, There is no chance to fight with the opponent. In the end, I had to accept a 3-4 defeat and regret the fate of being out of the first round.
In general, the common characteristics of the defeat of the three players, one is not enough attention to the opponent, the study of the other party is not thorough enough, and in the game of blind confidence in themselves, when encountering difficulties and there is obvious lack of confidence, lack of real expertise to limit the opponent, when the other side gives enough challenges, and also take the initiative to fight, so that they are difficult to find their own way to deal with, they themselves on the field of mentality is chaotic, technically can not play out. Another point is that the recent lack of a variety of real quality games has also made the three Japanese and South Korean players not prominent enough in mobilizing their own state, resulting in always following the rhythm of the other side on the field, so if the national table tennis players want to achieve good results in the back, they also need to fully absorb the lessons of the loss of the Players of the Japanese and South Korean teams, so as to avoid this unexpected outing.