On February 3, Beijing time, the Winter Olympic Curling Mixed Doubles Competition, the Chinese combination Of Ling Zhi / Fan Suyuan 6-7 by the Swedish combination Eriksson / De Waal reversed in the last moment, suffered the first defeat, lost the first place. The Swedish duo deserves to be the world champion!
In this campaign, the Chinese team lost 1 point in the first game, the Chinese team got 2 points in the second set, Sweden also got 2 points in the backhand in the third set, and the Chinese team got 1 point in the fourth set, and then both sides made mistakes in the next 2 sets, each took 1 point, and the two sides drew 4-4. In the crucial seventh set, Fan Suyuan's last shot almost hit 3 points, and finally the Chinese team scored 2 points to take the initiative.
It is worth mentioning that the British team, which has won 2 consecutive games before, lost 7-8 to Switzerland, so that if the Chinese team wins the opponent in the cold, it will become the first team to win 3 consecutive games, ranking first in the round robin. In the round robin tournament played by 10 teams, the top four will advance to the final four. However, in the final eighth set, the Swedish duo of Eriksson/De Waal exploded with great energy, played a perfect set, and directly counterattacked to get 3 points, and successfully won the game 7-6.
In the last set, Eriksson/De Waal really showed the style of winning the championship, this pair of the same youth we need to pay attention to, there is a certain possibility, if all goes well, the Chinese team will have a chance to meet them in the knockout round.
It should be noted that Eriksson is a Swedish curling legend, the Olympics are currently 1 silver and 1 bronze only a gold medal, the World Championships have won 5 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze too domineering, partner De Waal is only 24 years old, is the Swedish Institute of Technology in Stockholm master of engineering, can be called a natural curling seedling, debuted to win the World Youth Curling Championship and the winter Universiade champion, only to show themselves on the Olympic stage.
Of course, I believe that the goal of China's 2 post-90s players is definitely not just to climb the podium, and the previous 2 people also expressed the idea of impacting the championship, and it is really amazing to duel with the master.