Today, on the first day of the Macau WTT Championship, there were two foreign matches in the women's singles field, which attracted special attention, that is: Wang Xiaotong vs Li Qian (Poland), Liu Weishan vs Li Jie (Netherlands).
When it comes to Li Qian and Li Jie, two foreign players, I believe that most table tennis fans know a lot ~ these two have a lot in common:
1) Both are chippers;
2) Both are veterans: Li Qian is 35 years old, li Jie is 37 years old.
3) The two have won important awards together: the 2015 Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships Women's Doubles Third Place.
4) Both are quite famous in Europe:
A. Li Qian: Won the 2018 European Championship Women's Singles Championship.
B. Li Jie: Won the Women's Singles Championship of euro 2017 round of 16.
You see: these two players, although they are not young, but they are experienced in hundreds of battles, or very strong, for the first time to participate in the WTT competition of the young player Wang Xiaotong, and the very young Liu Weishan, it is not easy to play.
And, for Liu Weishan: in the 2019 German Open, she also lost 3:4 to Li Jie ~ Meet again today, the pressure is naturally very high.
Thus, in this situation, two foreign wars began.
Wang Xiaotong vs Li Qian: A vicious battle.
Compared with Li Jie, Li Qian's cutting technique is better, the stability is higher, the rotation is stronger, and the proportion, quality and suddenness of the attack are also better ~ which makes Wang Xiaotong very difficult to play.
To play the ball, you must have three points:
1) Fierce: forehand attack should be fierce, and the quality should be high;
2) Change: the rhythm changes more, and the frequency changes faster;
3) Stability: To maintain the stability of the attack and reduce mistakes.
Judging from the performance of this game, Wang Xiaotong still needs to be strengthened in the first two points:
1) The quality of veneer is not high enough to be over one board;
2) The continuity of the attack is not enough to speed up the frequency change rhythm.
In this way, the quality and change are not enough, and the duel with an experienced sharpshooter like Li Qian will be very hard: she will grind hard with you with experience and techniques, consume your patience a little bit, force you to make mistakes, and at the same time, seize the opportunity to fight back.
Judging from the actual game, Li Qian's strategy worked very well, making Wang Xiaotong feel very uncomfortable playing, and it was not easy to score every point.
In this way, the two sides launched a fierce tug-of-war, you scored one point and I scored one point, and it took five innings to see the score ~ it was the longest game today.
The score of the two sides in five sets (Wang Xiaotong is in front):
12:10-10:12-15:13-5:11-11:9。
You see, from the score, you can see: in four of the five games, both sides scored more than 10 points, how fierce is the competition?
For the young player Wang Xiaotong, being able to withstand the pressure to win this tough contest is of great value to his own exercise.
Second, Liu Weishan vs Li Jie: Win easily.
On the contrary, the same chipper, compared with the hard duel between Wang Xiaotong and Li Qian, the contest between Liu Weishan and Li Jie is much easier.
Two years ago in the German Open, the young Liu Weishan was still slightly young and inexperienced, and Li Jie at that time, the state was still good, coupled with rich experience, so the two of them fought and played ~ In the end, when the two sides played seven innings, Li Jie won 4:3.
However, after two years, the two sides met again:
1) Young Liu Weishan: After two years of experience, she has become more mature and sophisticated, and her strength has greatly increased.
2) What about Li Jie, who is older: two years older, the competitive state is not so good, and there has been a decline.
In this way, this and the other, the fist is afraid of less strong, the two meet again, Li Jie is no longer brave, can not withstand the impact of Liu Weishan, did not have to fight ~ the whole process was suppressed by Liu Weishan, and soon ended the game at 3:0.
The score of the three sets between the two sides:
11:7-11:7-11:8。
In this way, this WTT Macau match, Li Qian and Li Jie, the first round is out, so that the only two foreign games are soon over, Wang Xiaotong and Liu Weishan both won, so that all the remaining matches are the civil war of Chinese players.
Play well, keep up the good work!