Although Zhou Qihao has played a brilliant performance in the national table tennis team's challenges and various straight-through competitions many times, and once defeated players of Liang Jingkun, Ma Long, xu Xin's level, but when he really arrived at the world's competition, he often dropped the chain in some seemingly good opportunities and lost the opportunity to advance. And this soft style of play, as well as the situation that there are problems in the hard battle, also makes Zhou Qihao a very special existence of the national table tennis men's team. Everyone's evaluation of him is often that they dare not use it, and it is a pity to give up. At least in the World Table Tennis Championships, he once again failed to give the fans a satisfactory performance. So much so that in the competition with other potential players of national table tennis, he fell into the inferior position a little bit, and it must be admitted that there are not many opportunities left for Zhou Qihao, and this WTT Macau match is even one of the rare opportunities.
However, most of the players in the foreign association basically gave up participating, and this event is almost equivalent to the Spring Festival carnival of becoming a national table tennis player, Zhou Qihao still failed to withstand the challenge of 17-year-old Lin Shidong in the case of the dominant situation on the field, in the case of a 2-2 draw between the two sides, even if the last game was once drawn 9-9, there was a chance to win the game, and finally because the key ball was somewhat conservative, the quality of Lin Shidong's return ball was underestimated. 9-11 lost another set. Thus losing the match by an aggregate score of 2-3, it also lost the opportunity to advance to the men's singles quarterfinals of the WTT Macau Competition. From a certain point of view, Zhou Qihao's defeat has also caused his status in the minds of the coaching staff to decline again. On the other hand, his opponent Lin Shidong is a little ghost, using his big heart and comprehensive use of technology to let people witness his infinite possibilities in the future again.
In general, in this slightly stressful game, in fact, the two sides are fighting for who can be more open. Of course, Zhou Qihao also played very freely in the first set, but after he took a big lead, there was obviously a slack mood, especially in the second set of the two sides, there was a multi-round round back and forth ball, which can be said to be the momentum ball of both sides, and it was in the case of being passive at the beginning that he still won that point, so that Lin Shidong's aura in the game changed instantly, and the more he played in the back, the more he released, his technical ability was fully exerted, and the psychological stability also helped him have a better play. On the other hand, Zhou Qihao, when the ball is upwind, there will be conservative ideas, and when it is backward, it is easy to be anxious. In the case of key points and difficulties, there will often be technical moves due to the ups and downs of their own mentality, so that the good situation is not seized, but the overall score of 02-3 is lost.
To some extent, the match between Lin Shidong and Zhou Qihao seems to be just an ordinary contest in the first round, but it is very likely that Zhou Qihao will lose his competitive position in the second level of national table tennis. And Lin Shidong can use such a competition to give himself more opportunities to participate in world competitions. At least from the current point of view, Zhou Qihao's mentality problem has not been solved, can not fight a hard battle is still a label attached to him, as for the future he has no chance to take off this label, it depends on his own creation and his own ability to adjust.