On the evening of March 3, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Oman Challenge ushered in a peak showdown within the national table tennis - the world champion Liang Jingkun appeared, and in recent years, he has successively defeated Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Wang Chuqin and Liang Jingkun's "civil war king" Zhou Qihao.
Although Liang Jingkun suffered two consecutive defeats in the previous men's doubles and mixed doubles matches, he did not relax the requirements of the men's singles, and finally eliminated his opponent 3-1 and successfully qualified for the promotion. On the other side, although Wang Chuqin swept teammate Zhao Zihao 3-0, he only won 2 points in each game, which was really not easy!
Liang Jingkun, Zhou Qihao and Wang Chuqin are all one of the top 5 men's singles main players of the Chinese team participating in the Houston World Table Tennis Championships last year, and their technical strength is very strong, but there are some instabilities. The Oman trio was not in good shape, and all the draws were drawn to the top half of the men's singles, which also made everyone very curious about who could laugh last and get the tickets to the final.
Relatively speaking, Zhao Zihao's strength is obviously inferior, but he once crashed Wang Chuqin in international competitions, directly causing the latter to throw the racket to vent his dissatisfaction, and then was banned by Liu Guoliang and the coaching staff for several months, which shows that he is also a very difficult player, and this time Wang Chuqin has to face this teammate, which is quite interesting.
On the evening of March 3, the battle between Liang Jingkun and Zhou Qihao took the lead in the battle, and as a result, Zhou Qihao took the lead in launching, and the first set suppressed Liang Jingkun's attack, and won the first place 11-6. Since it was only an hour or so since Liang Jingkun had just finished playing the mixed doubles match, everyone was worried about whether his physical fitness would be a problem.
However, from the second set, Liang Jingkun began to dominate the situation on the field, and Zhou Qihao was defeated one after another, losing three consecutive cities 7-11, 8-11, 8-11, and even the key points were not played to end the battle, which was somewhat disappointing.
The battle between Wang Chuqin and Zhao Zihao was relatively more complicated, and the two sides fought inextricably in the first set, resulting in Wang Chuqin's narrow victory of 13-11. The second and third innings were also pinpoints against Mai Mang, but Zhao Zihao always lacked a breath, and then lost again with two 9-11s - the three innings added up to only 6 points, each time it was a key collapse, it was really uncomfortable: the master overplayed, and the loss was a thousand miles.
Next, Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin will pass in the men's singles semifinals as long as they enter one more round: can they meet as they wish? Let's sit back and wait for the new war report to come back!