The first leg of the WTT Dusseldorf regional tournament ended the women's singles final, with top seedEdgers Germany host Shan Xiaona 3-4 (
11-13/5-11/11-5/11-8/3-11/13-11/4-11) defeated by Barazova from Slovakia, who was honored to win the first international women's singles title in 2022. The 39-year-old Shan Xiaona is from Liaoning, and has participated in two Olympic Games after joining the German nationality, but the straight board is a bit outdated, which also makes her passive, relying only on tenacious perseverance to win 3 sets, and it is difficult to rush into the popular ranks of the world women's table tennis in the future.
Shan Xiaona is currently ranked 38th in the world, is the number one seed in the women's singles of this competition, her straight board is the main playing style of the Chinese table tennis women's team in the 1980s, but with the innovation of the big ball, the development of table tennis is more and more conducive to horizontal board players, straight board in the national table tennis women's team has no way out, fully suppressed by the horizontal board, Asian opponents in the past has always emerged straight board fast attack method of the South Korean team is also difficult to produce a straight board master. However, on the European women's line, Shan Xiaona, Fu Yu, Ni Xialian and many other Chinese straight boards can still play a piece of the sky, which shows that the European local female players have fallen behind a lot.
Shan Xiaona did not participate in the Champions League and the German local league, and directly chose this low-level event as the first battle of the new year. In the semifinals, Shan Xiaona defeated teammate Sabin Winter 4-2 to reach the women's singles final, and the final opponent was Slovakia's Barazova, Who eliminated Chantal in the semi-finals, and Chantal narrowly defeated No. 2 seed Ni Xialian of Luxembourg 4-3 in the quarterfinals.
In the first game of the women's singles final, Barazova and Shan Xiaona were evenly matched, because the two sides often met in the European Championships, the European Round of Twelve, the European Championship and club competitions, there were more mobile phone meetings, and each other's strengths and weaknesses were very familiar, the two sides fought until 11-11, Barazova's key points continuously suppressed Shan Xiaona's backhand score, and won 13-11 with difficulty. In the second set, Barazova continued to break through from Shan Xiaona's forehand, adhering to the strategy of suppressing the reverse, and leading the score all the way to 11-5 and then the next city.
In the 3rd set, Shan Xiaona strengthened the change of the serve, insisted on the small triangle position of the forehand of Barazova, let Barazova move to receive the serve, once the quality was reduced, Shan Xiaona immediately attacked with a forehand, relying on this tactic, Shan Xiaona pulled back a set at 11-5. In the fourth set, Shan Xiaona continued to strive for the initiative on the first three boards, insisting on solving the problem with forehand, and Barazova was unable to move her opponents, and was pulled 2-2 by Shan Xiaona at 8-11.
In the 5th set, Barazova pulled the stability of the ball to strengthen, using the strategy of pulling the arc on both sides of the forehand, Shan Xiaona was once again circled in the backhand area, and the backhand push block was indeed powerless to resist Barazova's backhand quickly tearing back, and finally Shan Xiaona lost the score by 3-11. In the sixth set, the two sides were again deadlocked, and when the score was 11-11, Barazova pulled the ball error and Shan Xiaona's attack won, and Shan Xiaona dragged the match to the decider 13-11.
In the decider, Shan Xiaona completely exposed the weakness of pulling the ball on one side and wanted to force the forehand sideways, but the mistakes continued, and finally missed the first new year's title at 4-11, which also shattered the German team's last hope of winning the championship and opened with 0 titles.