On the evening of January 19, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Macau Competition ushered in a focus battle, that is, the national table tennis Olympic champion Fan Zhendong (ranked No. 1 in the world) against Zhang Zicheng of Macao ( ranked 389th in the world). Originally, this ball did not have much to see, but because all other foreign association players had been out before, Zhang Zicheng also became the last foreign opponent of national table tennis.
Unfortunately, Zhang Zicheng is really not Fan Zhendong's opponent, so he was eliminated after losing 3 consecutive sets in one breath: in this way, the athletes of the Foreign Association were completely destroyed on the first match day, while the national table tennis was a 6-game winning streak of foreign wars, and as for the WTT Macau Tournament, it also completely became a civil war for the team!
A total of 35 people registered for the WTT Macau Competition, of which 30 were from the national table tennis, and only 5 people from the foreign association joined, namely Li Qian from Poland, Li Jie from the Netherlands, Du Kaixuan and Lin Zhaoheng from Hong Kong, China, and finally Zhang Zicheng from Macau, China.
According to the arrangement, on January 19, all foreign associations had a debut battle, and as a result, Li Qian lost to Wang Xiaotong, Li Jie lost to Liu Weishan, Lin Zhaoheng/Du Kaixuan lost to Xiang Peng/Zhang Rui, Lin Zhaoheng lost to Lin Gaoyuan, Du Kaixuan lost to Chen Meng, and Zhang Zicheng met Fan Zhendong, who ranked No. 1 in the world.
To be fair, Zhang Zicheng's performance after the start of the game was still very good, fighting very fiercely to "one board" to defeat the enemy, leading the score many times, but unfortunately still could not penetrate Fan Zhendong's defense, and finally lost the first set 9-11.
In the second set, Fan Zhendong played more freely, and the multi-board high ball score ignited the whole field, but Zhang Zicheng did not give up and did not give up, and the result was a 9-11 score. In the third set, Fan Zhendong still firmly grasped the initiative on the field, and finally locked in the victory 11-6, eliminating Zhang Zicheng to advance to the quarterfinals, which did not take much effort.
Today's game Fan Zhendong can win no surprise, and from the scene point of view, he may win faster, but in the face of the host players several times when leading the performance has a relaxed performance, but Zhang Zicheng's strength is not enough to support him to impact the world's first ranking fierce general, and it is inevitable that he will eventually be swept.
How to say it, this competition outside the association can play more athletes is probably only Du Kaixuan, if the lottery luck is better, the first round of the national table tennis player is likely to advance, who knows that as soon as it comes up, it will play against the Olympic champion Chen Meng, and finally lose 2-3, it seems that the foreign association still has Ito Mimako, Zhang Benzhihe, Lin Yunru, Ochalov and other people to do the field!
Finally, congratulations to the Chinese team again! So who can laugh last in the ensuing civil war and win the first title of the New Year? Let's wait and see: Come on, guys!