On the field, a young general, aged 18 years old, wearing a purple and gold crown with hair and wearing a rotten silver armor, sat down on the red rabbit treasure colt, holding a black and red racquet in his hand, majestic and dignified.
The world table tennis world, talented, heroes, Deng Yaping, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, Waldner, Liu Guoliang, Zhang Jike, etc., a loud name in and around the arena, fans around the ears, envy, jealousy, blood boiling. Their impressive achievements are due to the perfect unity of first-class table tennis skills and a good playing mentality. As the world's table tennis power, domestic table tennis enthusiasts up to 40 million people, table tennis technical level of good masters such as clouds, since 2003, the country has 25 male and female team members won the World Junior Table Tennis Championships, these team members are the top domestic table tennis masters, the technical level is absolutely first-class, but the real can stand out in the world competition only a few people, there is only one reason, the mentality is not up to standard. Athletes with good selection skills can be selected in daily competitions, and those with perfectly unified skills and mentality can only be selected in stressful competitions. At the beginning of the year, there was such a different young player in the competition.
He was selected for the national team at the age of fourteen. At the age of fifteen, he won the U15 men's singles championship of the Junior Table Tennis Open and the men's singles championship of the U18 group of the Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships. At the age of sixteen, he won the ITTF Polish Challenge U21 men's singles title. In 2019, he won the Men's Singles Championship at the World Junior Championships and the Men's Singles Championship in the North American Challenge of Table Tennis. In 2021, he participated in the National Youth Table Tennis Championships and won the men's singles championship, men's team championship and mixed doubles championship, and participated in the World Junior Table Tennis Championships to win the U19 men's singles championship. He was the eighteen-year-old young general Xiang Peng.
First, 4:10 backward, peace of mind, strong reversal. WTT Oman Challenge, Xiang Peng against teammate Xue Fei. In the first set, Xiang Peng took the lead, winning the first set eleven-four and winning the second set eleven-six. In the third game, Xue Fei began to change tactics, taking the initiative to change forehand and scoring consecutive points. Xiang Peng's attack was limited, he lost his scoring means, and was beaten eleven-to-one by his opponent. In the fourth game, Xue Fei has always occupied the active advantage, suddenly realized after holding hands, scored consecutive points, and took the first ten to four to get the set point. In the face of such a difficult situation, Xiang Peng's mentality did not collapse, but very calmly and slowly began to chase points, not to seek a board to die, but to ask for each ball to go on stage, when the score was chased to 9:10, Xue Fei was forced to pause, but to no avail, Xiang Peng chased the score to ten to ten. Although Xue Fei won another match point eleven-eleven, the general trend was gone, and finally Xiang Peng won the fourth game in a reversal of thirteen to eleven, and the big score was 3-1 to win the opponent to advance.
Second, the decider is 2:7 behind, not impatient, steady to chase points.
Table tennis WTT Grand Slam Xiang Peng played against Iranian veteran Alamyan. Who is Alamyan? Alamyan is an Iranian table tennis star who defeated Kenta Matsudaira, the world number one table tennis player in the junior category, at the ITTF World Junior Championships in Madrid, Spain, in 2008. In the 2012 Asian Cup men's singles quarterfinals, he defeated world champion Wang Liqin 4-1. In the men's singles qualifying tournament of the 2018 Asian Games, he first defeated South Korea's Jung Young-sik 4-3, and in the quarterfinals, he defeated hwang Jin-ting, a brother of Hong Kong, China, 4-1.
After the game began, Xiang Peng took the initiative and used his high-quality arc ball to attack and suppress Alamyan, taking the lead eleven-8. In the second set, Xiang Peng continued to increase his offensive intensity and won it again eleven-eight. At the beginning of the third set, Alamyan's form rose and he won eleven-nine. In the fourth set, Xiang Peng played a little impatiently, Alamyan played very well, continued to control Xiang Peng and then forced him to make mistakes, quickly got 4 innings points, and even played a stunt of changing hands to continuously hit the ball, and then went to the next city at eleven to nine, and the game entered the decider! In the decider match, Xiang Peng still could not get rid of the opponent's containment, and fell behind 2-7. At the critical moment, Xiang Peng was not impatient, but slowly relaxed his mentality, after four to eight, steadily one point, two points, three or four points, one point and one point and one point, and scored 7 points in a row to achieve a big reversal and successfully advanced!
Third, the key points of the game are grasped just right, and the adaptability is beyond ordinary people.
In the men's singles semifinals of the WTT Oman Challenge, national table tennis player Xiang Peng faced world champion Wang Chuqin. In the first set of the match between the two sides, Xiang Peng started to enter the state relatively quickly, leading four to two, Wang Chuqin vigorously attacked to chase the score to a seven-seven draw, and successfully won the first set eleven-nine. In the second set of the game, the scores of the two sides alternately rose until they reached a 9-9 draw, Xiang Peng took the lead in getting the set point, and Wang Chuqin took the serve and twisted it with his backhand to tie the score. Then the two successively scored through the serve rush, at such a critical moment, the 18-year-old young general was surprisingly calm, the serve rushed to attack, the attack changed the landing point, than the brother Wang Chuqin to be calm, after playing thirteen to three draws, Wang Chuqin made a mistake in attacking, and Xiang Peng won the second set fifteen to thirteen. The two sides entered the third set, Xiang Peng scored nine to five by serving and attacking the opponent's backhand position, and then eleven to seven to win the third set. In the fourth set, Xiang Peng got the match point eleven-seven, Wang Chuqin served and scored, Xiang Peng immediately requested a timeout, directly disrupted Wang Chuqin's scoring rhythm, and finally Xiang Peng eleven-eight won the fourth set. The turning point of the game between the two sides is the battle for the key points of the third set, how Wang Chuqin can win the third set, the balance of victory will be tilted to his side. I have to say that Xiang Peng's ability to grasp the key scoring points is still very prominent.
Fourth, in the competition, do not be afraid of strong hands, dare to fight and dare to fight.
In the quarter-finals of the WTT Macau Championship, he beat Sun Wen 3-1 to advance to the men's singles quarterfinals. Sun Wen's strength everyone knows, in the first round of the 2018-2019 Annual Table Tennis Super League, Sun Wen defeated Fan Zhendong, who ranked first in the world, breaking out of the big cold, and in the tenth round of the game, Sun Wen defeated Fan Zhendong again 3-2. In the first round of the men's singles of the 2019 Japan Open, Sun Wen swept the world's fourth-ranked Japanese prodigy Zhang Benzhihe 4-0, breaking the biggest upset of the 2019 Japan Open. In the game, Xiang Peng and Sun Wen opened up their full firepower, attacked more, and the wonderful divine balls continued, and the skills were shocking, which made the audience feast their eyes!
He not only has a good mentality in the competition, but also calmly, not discouraged, not giving up when the score is behind, has the courage and determination to win the final victory, especially in the grasp of key points, has far exceeded the range of his age can control. Not only that, in the tenacious position warfare, he also showed great strength.
Will such a brave and resourceful young general become the real successor of national table tennis in the future? Let's hear what everyone thinks!
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