In the past 2021 season, fan Zhendong, a famous national table tennis player, experienced the baptism of the olympic games and the world table tennis championships, and proved his strength with three gold and one silver. Not long ago, a reply by Fan Zhendong in an interview attracted the attention of fans and friends - when "Table Tennis World" asked Fan Zhendong if he was nervous before the world table tennis lottery, he replied like this:
"I also thought at the time that Zhou Qihao would not draw and meet me in the second round, right?" It was almost my first instant feeling. Nervousness and awkward feelings will be there, to the back gradually to prepare for the game, focus on the game, the mentality will be slightly better. ”
I have to say that Zhou Qihao's strength is indeed very strong, and he is a civil war master who makes the top main force of national table tennis jealous!
As we all know, Fan Zhendong's most difficult athlete to deal with in recent years is Ma Long, who has repeatedly lost to each other in the Olympic Games, World Table Tennis Championships, World Cup and National Games, including the men's singles final of this year's Tokyo Olympic Games. But soon after the End of the Olympic Games, Ma Long voluntarily gave up participating in the men's singles event of the National Games and the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, which also made everyone feel that Fan Zhendong's era was coming.
It turns out that in the absence of Ma Long, Fan Zhendong really has no one to balance, and soon swept the table tennis world, winning the men's singles championship of the National Games, the World Table Tennis Championships and the WTT World Cup final, but if anyone can make him feel difficult to deal with, it may only be Zhou Qihao.
As early as the 2020 National Table Tennis Direct Competition, Zhou Qihao defeated Ma Long and Xu Xin, but unfortunately did not win Fan Zhendong in the last stage. However, in the 2021 Xinxiang Direct Connect, Zhou Qihao won Liang Jingkun, Ma Long and Fan Zhendong in one go, and successfully won the championship. Subsequently, Zhou Qihao defeated Fan Zhendong again in the warm-up match.
In addition, Zhou Qihao also bombarded another world champion in the Table Tennis Super League, Wang Chuqin, an 11-0 disparity, and added to the previous round was to win 19 points in a row, such a terrible state is indeed impressive, no wonder Fan Zhendong will still have palpitations after the World Table Tennis Championships, worried that the second round of the draw will meet Zhou Qihao.
Because Zhou Qihao's performance in foreign wars has been poor, some fans were worried as early as before the Start of the World Table Tennis Championships: Will he be divided into a half zone with the other four main players of the national table tennis, and then defeat Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan to reach the final in one go, and finally lose to the athletes of the Foreign Association? If that's the case, it's a big loss!
However, after the results of the draw came out, the four main players of the world champions were indeed divided into the first half of the district, and Zhou Qihao was alone in the lower half, and as a result, he broke the sand in the second round and was eliminated by the 40-year-old German world champion veteran Bohr, which also made many people sigh: he still can't pass the foreign war!
From the perspective of overall technical strength, Zhou Qihao has reached a quasi-first-class level, but he has not stepped out of the usual sparring thinking misunderstanding, has a skill that will not be used alive, and can play very well in the face of teammates who get along day and night, but when he meets athletes from foreign associations who usually meet very little and whose playing style is very different from that of Chinese table tennis, it is easy to show stuffing, so "foreign war laymen".
But there should be few athletes who can get so much attention from Fan Zhendong, there should be few in the whole world; and there are few players who can defeat the main players of so many national table tennis world champions in a year - Zhou Qihao is now a good iron with strong enough strength, but it has not been forged into steel, and he looks forward to his new year to have new progress and strive to realize the dream of world champion as soon as possible: come on!