The first international tournament of table tennis in 2022, the WTT Düsseldorf Regional Tournament, began the women's singles quarterfinals, with ni Xialian, a 59-year-old former national table tennis world champion representing Luxembourg, 3-4 in the decider with match points (
11-9/1-11/11-8/9-11/11-7/9-11/11-13) regrettably lost to Germany's Chantal. The fierce battle continued into the decider, and for the most part the two did not pull apart, and the only 2nd set, Ni Xialian, was honored by the opponent with a dismal 11-1.
Ni Xialian is the former world champion of the Chinese table tennis team, and Cao Yanhua, Dai Lili and other famous players belong to a group of team members, although the singles strength at that time in the national table tennis far less than Cao Yanhua's strength, but still won the world table tennis women's team championship and mixed doubles champion and women's doubles runner-up, is one of the main lineup of national table tennis at that time. Ni Xialian did not give up the table tennis career after retiring, came to Luxembourg to open the "happy table tennis" years, this year's 59-year-old grandmother player is expected to play to the 61-year-old Paris Olympic Games, after all, she still won the women's doubles bronze medal at the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, and singles is still competitive in Europe.
This Düsseldorf regional competition is mainly based on German local players, well-known players do not come much, Ni Xialian as the No. 2 seed to participate in the women's singles competition, in the quarter-final met the German non-main player Chantal. In the first set, Ni Xialian and ShangTar tested each other, and the score did not open up until the 9-9 draw, Ni Xialian won the first set with two consecutive points with a serve rush.
In the 2nd set, Ni Xialian's straight board fast attack style was gradually adapted by Shantar, found the strategy of pressing the backhand to adjust the forehand, resisted Ni Xialian's backhand with the advantage of two sides of the horizontal board, seized the opportunity to give the forehand empty gear, resulting in Ni Xialian almost daring to attack sideways with the forehand, the score was getting bigger and bigger, Ni Xialian was unable to get rid of the dilemma of the backhand, and was equalized by Chantal with a large score of 1-11.
In the 3rd set, Ni Xialian strengthened the quality of the backhand push, there were changes in rotation, there were also changes in the rhythm of priorities, so that Shantar was not accurate in the process of holding, resulting in repeated mistakes, Ni Xialian's key points still relied on the serve to grab the initiative, and finally took the lead again at 11-8. In the 4th set, Chantal's backhand pulled the ball with high quality, repeatedly penetrating Ni Xialian's backhand push defense, and the key points of this round hit Ni Xialian's passive situation at the end of the innings to prove that the straight board pushed the end of the road, and it was difficult to have a way out.
In the 5th set, Ni Xialian began to force her sideways, and strengthened the proportion of forehand use in the attack, even if the opponent gave her a backhand, Ni Xialian still insisted on pulling the ball with the forehand and holding the shang taal, and for this change Shantar still needed an adaptation process, and finally Ni Xialian won the game 11-7. In the 6th set, Chantal and Ni Xialian were entangled until 9-9, and Shantar took advantage of Ni Xialian's offensive mistake to win 11-9 at a critical moment. In the 7th set, Ni Xialian won the match point 10-9, but the key score was Still tar to score, and later came to win the match 13-11.
Semi-final top seed Shan Xiaona against teammate Sabin Winter, the other game between Chantal and Barazova, the host Germany women's singles occupy 3 seats, the doubles to play Slovakia Balazova, is expected to win the women's singles championship runner-up.