On the evening of January 19, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Macau tournament continued, and the two mixed doubles pairs of national table tennis - Zhou Qihao / He Zhuojia, Xue Fei / Wang Xiaotong met in a narrow road and launched a fierce battle, resulting in the former being tragically reversed in the case of a 1-0, 2-1 lead, and the first round of the game was terminated.
It is worth mentioning that before that, Zhou Qihao was eliminated by 16-year-old Lin Shidong in the first round of men's singles, and now the mixed doubles is also out of the "one round tour", so he has now completely destroyed the army and ended all the battles in the Macau Tournament, so it is difficult to match the identity of the main force of his World Table Tennis Championships, and it needs to be seriously summarized!
Zhou Qihao, Xue Fei, He Zhuojia are all well-known athletes of the national table tennis team, of which Zhou Qihao is the big dark horse champion of last year's direct race (winning Liang Jingkun, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong), the main athlete of the World Table Tennis Championships, Xue Fei is the representative of the new star of the straight pat method, He Zhuojia is the "Ito Mimachi nemesis", and Wang Xiaotong's words are relatively low-profile, but also have good strength.
From the perspective of personal technical strength, Zhou Qihao and He Zhuojia should be stronger than Xue Fei and Wang Xiaotong respectively, but as we all know, doubles is not a simple "1 + 1 = 2", and the cooperation between partners is also very important, so there is suspense in today's battle.
After the game began, Zhou Qihao/He Zhuojia took the lead and suppressed the opponent with stronger veneer quality, winning the first set 11-9. In the second set, Xue Fei/Wang Xiaotong did not want to show weakness, and soon equalized 11-7, but then the third set was a key point defeat, 9-11 forced into a desperate situation by the other side.
In the fourth set, Zhou Qihao/ He Zhuojia was in sight to win, but there were too many mistakes in the second half, and then the opponent won 11-8, and the game was dragged into the decider. In the fifth set of the big battle, Zhou Qihao / He Zhuojia started unfavorably, lagged behind the score, played a little conservatively, although once chased the score, but still lost the whole game 8-11, "one round tour" stopped the mixed doubles first round: it is a pity!
In general, the two male players in this doubles match are not in particularly good shape, which may be affected by the singles game, but Xue Fei's state adjustment is relatively better. As for He Zhuojia, who has not yet played in singles, and Wang Xiaotong, who has won the ball, the performance is more normal: they are all temporary pairs, and it is difficult to have a particularly amazing play, and it is good that everyone can minimize mistakes.
I hope that Zhou Qihao can adjust his state as soon as possible, otherwise he will find it difficult for him to continue to keep his main position after the foreign war and the continuous loss of the civil war: come on!