On the evening of February 27, Beijing time, the first men's singles semi-final of the Table Tennis European Championship ended, and the old opponent of national table tennis, the 40-year-old German world champion Bohr, suffered a fiasco, following the men's singles semifinals of the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston last year, he lost to the 20-year-old Moregold, and had no chance to impact the eighth European Cup gold medal of his career.
I have to say that the level of this Moregold is really good, and he has reached the men's singles final in the World Series and European Competitions consecutively, worthy of the reputation of the "successor" of the Grand Slam Waldner! So can he win the European Men's Singles title today? The suspense is still there!
Born in 1981, Moregod was born in 2002, the two are athletes of completely different eras, but the former's technical style is not backward today, while the latter's technical action is very close to the table tennis players in the 90s, and the backhand rarely uses twisting and pulling techniques, but likes to bounce and quick dial like Lao Wa and others, which is indeed very different.
Last year's World Table Tennis Championships, Pol and Moregold met in the men's singles semifinals, and as a result, the veteran once led but was reversed by the other side, and finally did not qualify for the final round, and although Moregold lost to Fan Zhendong in the final, the runner-up this result has been very prominent, it is indeed talented, impressive.
After the game began, Moregold took the lead and gave his seniors a dismount in the first set to take the lead at 11-7. In the second set, Ball was still led by the nose and then lost another 8-11 score. The third set was the key to the competition between the two sides, and after the two fought fiercely until 12 draws, Moregold was still more stable, and then won 14-12, thus forcing Pol into a desperate situation.
In the fourth inning, the youngsters experienced a certain state of mind swing, while Ball found the opportunity to counterattack successfully, taking back a city 11-7. Unfortunately, in the fifth set, Pol was really powerless to return to heaven, and the result was 6-11 loss of the whole game, and Moregold once again won today's game with super tactical awareness, indeed like Waldner!
At present, It seems that Moregold's forehand lethality is very strong, although the backhand is generally powerful, but it has a very mature and exquisite landing point, line awareness, which is very rare in the world table tennis circle - the reason why Waldner was able to cross the table tennis arena at that time is also because the tactical level is very high, Moregood is now really inheriting his mantle, and the national table tennis must be prevented!
So can the youngster be crowned king in this competition and become the new winner of the European Championship? The answer is about to be revealed tonight, so let's wait and see!