On February 27, 2022, the table tennis Oman Tournament continued the competition of the qualification tournament, the national table tennis men's singles Zhou Qihao played, won three consecutive sets of zero sheet Czech player Martinko easily advanced, just last year he performed well, qualified for the World Table Tennis Championships, but because the world ranking is not high, so it is still necessary to start from the qualification tournament, this time Zhou Qihao did not have a part-time arrangement, only participated in the men's singles competition.
Zhou Qihao is 25 years old, ranked 102nd in the world, known as the nerve knife by outside fans, he is very powerful, that is, the on-site play is too unstable, once defeated Fan Zhendong, won the men's singles championship of the direct competition, and has a good performance in many domestic competitions, but he often loses foreign battles when he comes to the international arena, last year's World Table Tennis Championships lost to german world champion Pol, and the coaching staff is still continuing to test him.
It is worth mentioning that just last year's Slovenia tournament, Zhou Qihao lost to the young player from Belgium, although he has defeated the main players many times, but it is indeed difficult to play with European players who are good at COSCO, the first round of the qualifier against the Czech player Martinko, 22-year-old ranked 317th in the world, everyone has not heard of this name, the results are basically focused on participation.
At the beginning of the game, Zhou Qihao fell into a bitter battle, unfamiliar with Martinco's way of playing, Martinco took a 3-1 lead, Zhou Qihao chased 2 points and 3 draws, and then the score alternately rose, the two sides drew many times, Zhou Qihao's veneer quality was higher, but the COSCO Platform did not have the upper hand, has been retiring, the end of the innings came to 9 draws, Zhou Qihao resisted the pressure to score 2 points in a row to win 11-9, Martinco's key balls did not work.
In the second set, Zhou Qihao made a force after the journey, 4 draws scored 3 points 7-4 to lead, Martin Ke even chased 2 points, Zhou Qihao stabilized his position, continued to entangle with Martinco in the near stage, Zhou Qihao got the innings point 10-7, the backhand twisted and directly scored, to win another round at 11-7, Martinco is still limited in personal ability, Zhou Qihao actively adjusted the rhythm of the game, this time through targeted training, the strength has improved.
Next Zhou Qihao scored 3 points in a row, Martinko called a timeout, after returning Zhou Qihao expanded the point difference to 6-2, and then Zhou Qihao led the way in an all-round way, and finally exploded 11-4 to end the game, 3-0 swept Martinco to advance to the third round of the qualifiers, Zhou Qihao began to be a little slow and hot, and then he found the rhythm through his own efforts, and then hoped that he would continue to work hard, strive to qualify for the main tournament, and get more good results.
Overall, the opponent strength of the qualification tournament is weak, most of the members of the national table tennis team to advance to the main tournament has no problem, the key is the next game, the real highlight is still behind, I hope that the national table tennis can achieve good results this time, get more points in the tour of this station.