On January 16, 2022, Beijing time, the WTT regional event Düsseldorf has been completed, of which Barazova won the women's singles gold medal, and Gados won the men's singles championship. In terms of women's singles that everyone pays more attention to, Shan Xiaona, a veteran of Chinese German table tennis, lost to her opponent 3:4 in the final after completing the reversal in the semifinals with 4:2, it is worth mentioning that Shan Xiaona is still a fellow of Ma Long and Li Xiaoxia, all of whom are from Anshan, Liaoning.
This WTT regional event Düsseldorf station competition is still relatively compact, the whole game down, the time cycle is only a few days, but because of environmental restrictions, coupled with the level of the competition is relatively low, so the strength of the participants is low, everyone is more familiar with some of the world-class strong players basically did not participate, of course, the national table tennis naturally did not send young generals out to train, may also consider the safety of safety.
For this competition, as the main force of German table tennis is also the performance of the Chinese veteran Shan Xiaona is still very strong, the game began all the way through the cut, until the semi-final encountered the impact, mainly because the opponent Winter is more adaptable to Shan Xiaona's positive glue, so the fight gave Shan Xiaona a lot of pressure, the first set began Winter quickly opened the score difference between Shan Xiaona and Shan Xiaona and won the first set at 11:8.
Coming to the second set, Winter shot is still very strong, giving Shan Xiaona a lot of pressure, and the score is also a continuous lead, starting at 6:0 and playing another round at 11:7, but then Shan Xiaona began to usher in an outbreak, starting from the third set, Shan Xiaona changed her playing style, no longer entangled in quality problems, but instead controlled the opponent in line and transfer, the effect was very good, first with two 11:4 consecutive two sets, chasing the big score to 2 draws, and then Shan Xiaona was angry and then with two 11:9 big scores 4 :2 Reverse opponents to advance to the final!
Coming to the women's singles final, the self-confidence of the veteran Shan Xiaona has also been greatly improved, but in the face of the opponent is also a famous player, Barazova, the play is also very difficult, the first set of the two people played difficult to solve, the score soon came to 5 draws, and the follow-up two sides fiercely competed, the score is also alternately rising all the way to 10 draws, chasing the ball link, Barazova played more stable to win the first set at 13:11.
In the second set, Shan Xiaona started with a 3:5 trail behind Barazova, and faced the opponent's reverse rotation serve routine, appeared a bit passive, and was soon continued to maintain the lead by Barazova 7:3, and then Barazova took the next set at 11:5. In the third set, Shan Xiaona, who changed her playing style, began to score consecutive points, and led Barazova at the beginning of the game 5:1, and won the set point 10:4, and Shan Xiaona stabilized at the inning point to finally win a set at 11:5.
In the fourth set, Shan Xiaona still maintained the lead in the score, but in the middle of the game was forced out of the timeout by Barazova 7:8, but after the suspension came back, Shan Xiaona still resisted the pressure, with the change of the first three boards to 11:8 and then the next set, the fifth set, the two sides returned to the same running line, but Shan Xiaona suddenly lost power, the opponent Barazova started with a 7:1 lead, and easily won the set at 11:3, the sixth set, Shan Xiaona did not give up, but relied on her own fight to start with 13 :11 In the next set, the big score was chased to 3 draws!
The seventh set, the decider, the unexpected is that Shan Xiaona lost power again, may be too anxious, but there are many mistakes, was Barazova won the game with a score of 11:4 4:3 to win the women's singles championship of this competition, I have to say that Barazova's strength is still good, but for Shan Xiaona, a veteran, it is also very good to be able to play and the silver medal in women's singles.
It is worth mentioning that this Chinese veteran Shan Xiaona is also a northeasterner, his hometown is Anshan, Liaoning, and Ma Long, Li Xiaoxia, the two Grand Slams are fellow countrymen, but then Shan Xiaona went to Germany to develop, and played for Germany at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and his teammates also have Han Ying and Sol Jia, which shows that although its strength is not so prominent in China, it is still a strong presence in Germany.