In the early morning of January 16, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Germany Düsseldorf Tournament once again broke out of the big cold - The German Olympic runner-up and the outstanding representative of China's table tennis "Overseas Corps" Shan Xiaona lost 7 sets in the women's singles final, losing 3-4 to Slovakia's Barazova, who had no chance to win the championship.
Before that, the second seeded player, 58-year-old former national table tennis world champion Ni Xialian in the 1/4 finals of the fold, and now as the number one seed Shan Xiaona has not been able to laugh to the end, it seems that competitive sports are really unpredictable, no one dares to say that they can book a championship!
Born in 1983, Shan Xiaona is a table tennis player from Liaoning Province, China, and Olympic champions Ma Long, Li Xiaoxia and Guo Yue are fellow countrymen, with a straight hand and a one-sided glue fast attack and change of play, which is the top technology of women's table tennis before the 1990s, but it has been obviously outdated in today's table tennis.
But even so, Shan Xiaona still broke through in the world table tennis world, many times for the German team to achieve good results, especially in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Shan Xiaona and her teammates together to reach the women's team final, although the final loss to the national table tennis, but also won a silver medal, thus becoming the Olympic runner-up.
Because of the average level, the Düsseldorf competition did not attract any masters to participate, and Shan Xiaona, who was ranked 38th in the world, became the number one seed in the women's singles, and she also lived up to expectations and passed all the way to the final, and played against Slovak athlete Barazova.
After the game began, Barazova took the lead in launching, using the powerful horizontal arc ball technology to suppress the opponent's direct shot positive rubber fast attack, and then went down to two cities at 13-11, 11-5, and quickly grasped the initiative on the field, Shan Xiaona was in a bad situation.
In the face of adversity, Shan Xiaona quickly organized an effective counterattack, and then equalized 11-5, 11-8, but then lost the fifth set 3-11 and was forced into a desperate situation. Shan Xiaona narrowly won by 2 points in the sixth set, dragging the match into the decider 13-11, but in the seventh set she fell behind 1-7 and then lost 4-11, and Barazova won the final championship: not easy!
Today's game, Shan Xiaona still played a little impatient, and Barazova's narrow victory in the first set gave herself great encouragement, and finally withstood the opponent's counterattack, worthy of everyone's affirmation: a very wonderful game, congratulations to Barazova, but also look forward to Shan Xiaona, Ni Xialian and others next time can have a better performance!