In the early morning of January 21, Beijing time, table tennis WTT Germany Düsseldorf broke out a super cold: the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships runner-up winner, zeng and Ma Long / Wang Chuqin a combination - Robles (Spain) / Ionescu (Romania) collapsed in the men's doubles final, 1-3 to Felix / Alex from France.
It is worth mentioning that this Alex is only 18 years old, ranked 1050 in the world, and Felix is only 15 years old, ranked 786 in the world, and is also a rare European local direct-pat player, the result is that the two have to pull the world runner-up combination off the horse, it is really fearsome, people are impressed!
Robles/Jonescu is a dark horse combination that has emerged in the world table tennis scene in recent years, the singles level of the two is not outstanding, and one is from Spain and the other is from Romania, this cross-border pairing will have a certain adverse impact on the degree of cooperation in doubles, but they do not have this problem.
At the 2019 Budapest World Table Tennis Championships, Robles/Jonescu passed the hurdles to reach the men's doubles final, and finally lost to Ma Long/Wang Chuqin, but the result of winning the silver medal also created the best results of the table tennis teams of the two countries in recent decades, so when the men's doubles list of the Düsseldorf Tournament was announced, everyone had assumed that Robles/Jonescu was the champion, but the result was punched in the face.
After the first two days of confrontation, Robles/Jonescu reached the men's doubles final unsurprisingly, facing two young French players. After the game began, the transnational combination had an unfavorable start, losing the first set 7-11, and then losing 6-11, completely led by the nose of the other side, and quickly fell into a desperate situation.
In the third set, Robles/Jonescu almost went straight out, but still forced a city back 12-10, and it was very difficult to win. However, in the fourth set, they were still unavoidable from collapse, and the result was that Felix/Alex ended the match 11-7, which made them unable to reach the top and win the championship.
Prior to this, Felix, the young shooter, had already exploded in the super-low score at last year's WTT Slovenia tournament, beating the World Champion Zhuang Zhiyuan of Chinese Taipei. In the last race in Düsseldorf, Felix also won the men's doubles championship with teammate Dole, and this second race changed partners and successfully reached the top, which is indeed not simple.
At present, felix does have a certain talent, and he has been able to emerge many times in international competitions at a young age, so can he carry the banner of the straight shooting sect in the future? Let's wait and see what happens!