Although the singapore grand slam qualifiers are relatively long, because the proportion of players in the national table tennis ranking is relatively high, there are fewer players participating in the qualification rounds, which also allows us to watch the qualifiers relatively easily, and only occasionally pay attention to the play of young players who need to play qualifiers such as Xiang Peng and Ku Man. However, for the fans of national table tennis, there is a game on the field tomorrow that needs to be watched in advance, that is, the key battle of whether Xiang Peng can qualify for the main game. The opponent he needs to face is Slovakia's Pisteje Lubomir, who has just swept Japan's famous Shen Qiaoya 3-0 in the qualifiers.
As many fans know, although there is a certain gap between Shenqiao and the previously famous Mizutani Hayabusa, Niwa Takashi and Zhang Benzhihe in terms of ability and achievements and popularity, Yukiya Utada also has a deeper awareness than him among Chinese fans, but Shenqiao is also a player in the sub-main position of the Japanese men's table tennis team, and in terms of world ranking, it is also within 60. This also shows that his competitiveness is still there. However, it was this European player from Slovakia, Pistje Lubomir, who not only showed his offensive ability when facing Shen Qiaoye, but also successfully suppressed Shen Qiaoye in the whole game, including an 11-1 score in one set. It can be seen that for Xiang Peng, the opponent in the next round is definitely a difficult bone to gnaw.
To some extent, European players do tend to mature later than Asian players, but they can continue to stabilize and maintain their competitive life for a longer time. Lubomir also belongs to this style of player. In fact, he is 38 years old this year, and his qualifications are even comparable to Germany's famous Pol. It's just that his popularity and hard power, as well as the experience of the big game, there is a certain gap between him and Pol. However, compared with Xiang Peng, a young player who also lacks competition experience, Lu Bomir still has his own multi-faceted advantages. In the German Open two years ago, Shen Qiao could easily achieve a 4-0 clean sheet opponent, and now in the face of such an opponent, Shen Qiao and Lu Bomir can be said to have changed one by one, and the three games combined, Shen Qiao also only took 13 points, in addition to what we just mentioned, he was played with a 1-11 disparity in the second set, and the other two sets only scored 4 points and 8 points respectively. In the third round of the qualification round, for Xiang Peng and Lu Bomir, the other side is the strongest opponent they need to deal with, and both sides need to make difficult preparations if they want to advance, and they must make some more rigorous pre-match arrangements according to the characteristics of the other party.
Of course, for the young players of national table tennis, especially Xiang Peng himself, he has become a key training object among the new generation of national table tennis players since the moment he ascended to the men's singles championship of the World Youth Championships, and after the core players of Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin, the two age groups of Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin, the smaller top players in the 03 and 05 age groups, of course, are none other than Xiang Peng and Lin Shidong. The Oman Challenge, which just ended, also allowed Xiang Peng to get full exercise, although he most stopped the men's singles semifinals of the event, but he was able to play seven sets with Liang Jingkun in the semifinals, and only lost at the last moment, which also brought a lot of confidence to Xiang Peng. This time the WTT Singapore Grand Slam, Xiang Peng in the first round of the qualifiers, facing the veteran Alamyan from Iran, once again showed his technical strength and stable psychological quality, so that his ability to play difficult battles has been newly improved, and finally after 5 sets of hard fighting, 3-2 difficult and narrow victory over the opponent. The victory of this difficult battle also gave Xiang Peng more capital to cope with the challenge from veteran Lu Bomir.
I believe that in the most critical promotion battle, Xiang Peng will definitely live up to his mission and bring us a wonderful game. It also makes us look forward to Xiang Peng's successful promotion, entering the main game with his teammates as desired, and striving to continue to have the opportunity to move forward in the main game. Come on, Xiang Peng.