On March 4, Beijing time, the Oman Challenge match was followed by Lin Gaoyuan's 3-0 victory over Lin Shidong, and the semi-final matches were all produced, of which Liang Jingkun and Xiang Peng met, while Lin Gaoyuan met Liu Dingshuo.
With the progress of the game, the game came to the final game of the WTT Oman Challenge Men's Singles Quarterfinals, by Lin Gaoyuan and Lin Shidong to compete, the winning party will meet with the national table tennis dark horse Liu Dingshuo in the semi-finals, relatively speaking, Lin Gaoyuan is characterized by fast speed, coupled with the left-handed advantage line is also very open, and Lin Shidong's characteristics are mainly in the dare to fight, and the strength of the front and backhands are relatively balanced, so this game is still very fierce.
At the beginning of the first set in the game, the young general Lin Shidong took the lead in serving, but Lin Gaoyuan directly backhanded to tear up the large angle to score, and again served Lin Shidong actively attacked, but was still limited by Lin Gaoyuan to score offensively, 2:0 Lin Gaoyuan started the lead, came to his own serve wheel, both sides scored a point, the score came to 3:1, for Lin Gaoyuan, this rhythm is still relatively comfortable to score.
Back to Lin Shidong's serve wheel, first sneaked up on Lin Gaoyuan's forehand bottom line but was directly attacked by Lin Gaoyuan to score, after serving again, Lin Shidong scored with an offensive score, the score came to 4:2, and the follow-up scores of the two sides began to rise alternately, but Lin Gaoyuan always lived in the middle and near platform, insisting on playing his own advantage technology, which did give Lin Shidong a great sense of oppression, the score also slowly came to 6:3, and then Lin Shidong quickly tore off the spin ball to score, the score came to 4:6, Lin Shidong still lagged behind by 2 points, In the middle of the game, Lin Gaoyuan still maintained a stable play, the score soon came to 8:5, the key points were short after lin Gaoyuan seized the opportunity to score again to extend the lead 9:5, and finally 11:5 to the next set.
From the first round of the two sides of the confrontation, it has to be said that Lin Gaoyuan's progress is still very obvious, to be precise, Lin Gaoyuan's strength may not have improved greatly, but Lin Gaoyuan's technical and tactical rationality has been significantly improved, especially in this challenge, Lin Gaoyuan's technical and tactical execution is in place, and he also fully exerts his advantages of speed and large angle, and although the young general Lin Shidong has been trying to find a way, he is still controlled by Lin Gaoyuan, which seems to be helpless.
In the second set, holding a set ahead Lin Gaoyuan still played steadily, and with an active start-up attack to lead again 2:1, with Lin Gaoyuan's pendulum short score again, the score came to 3:1, Lin Shidong still looked a little younger, especially in the face of Lin Gaoyuan's fast, fast-paced first hand, Lin Shidong wanted to break through or had to make a better choice on the first three boards, but Lin Gaoyuan quickly used the forehand's forced line change score, the score instantly came to 5:1, and the difference between the two sides was expanded to 4 points.
In the face of the big score behind, the innings is also obviously inferior, the young Lin Shidong seems to be a bit dull, frequent offensive mistakes lost points by Lin Gaoyuan to lead 7:1, and further expanded the score advantage, with Lin Gaoyuan's rush to score, the score came to 8:1, and Lin Shidong appeared to be somewhat out of state, the serve was twisted straight again, the score came to 9:1, although the follow-up Lin Shidong once broke out continuous chasing points, but still by Lin Gaoyuan to 11:5 and then the next set.
In the third set, Lin Gaoyuan's match point game, holding the advantage of 2 sets Lin Gaoyuan still played steadily and successfully advanced to the semifinals with a score of 11:8 3:0 and met Liu Dingshuo in the semifinals, while in the upper half, Liang Jingkun and Xiang Peng competed for another final spot!