The first day of the 2022 Table Tennis Grand Slam Tournament held in Singapore has come to an end, and all the Chinese players who appeared on the scene have laughed to the end, especially the young Chinese female player Ku Man, after successfully breaking through from the qualifiers, when he met the experienced Feng Tianwei of the host player in the first round of the women's singles, he still did not panic and defeated the opponent to advance to the second round, and Xiang Peng, a Chinese male team player who came from the qualification tournament, took the lead on the second match day. His opponent is Gross from Denmark, who is ranked 38 in the world and still has certain personal ability, but as the 21-year World Youth Championship men's singles champion, Xiang Peng is not without a chance to win and advance to the next round, whether he can maintain a good mentality in such a world series to play his best level will directly determine the trend of this game! In the first two games, Xiang Peng obviously did not adapt to the pressure of such a level of competition, so that he did not play his level at all, Gross also took the opportunity to win two consecutive sets, took the lead in getting the match point, the third game let go of Xiang Peng, caused a lot of pressure on the opponent, and has been fighting until the last moment, but the experience style Gross, or with a more decisive attack, the big score 3-0 eliminated Xiang Peng, the latter also became the first Chinese player out of this game!
Xiang Peng, who is only 19 years old, debuted on the stage of the World Series, it is inevitable that there will be unsuitable situations, the first game he entered the state very slowly, and the experienced Gross also took the opportunity to play a fantastic start, leading 5-1 to further increase the pressure on Xiang Peng, and finally took the lead 11-3!
Xiang Peng, who lost in the first set, the second set of the game began to adjust the strategy, not like before thinking too much, but in the game to play more simple and active, in the game to take the lead in adding quality, as soon as the opportunity appeared to start attacking, which also let him bite the score in the opening stage, and Gross has been playing until 5-5 draw, but Xiang Peng such a strong offensive style of play, once unable to control their own mistakes, will cause a lot of damage to themselves, after 5 draws Gross also seized the problem of his increased mistakes in the return ball, Consecutive points gave him an 8-5 lead, and although Xiang Peng pulled a goal back, it still did not change the fate of 8-11 loss.
Xiang Peng, who has no retreat, after the start of the third game, pay more attention to the control of the ball landing point, give the ball to Gross's backhand, do not let him use the advantage of his height, hit a powerful forehand attack, this strategy has a clear effect in the opening stage, relying on the advantage of backhand twisting, Xiang Peng also achieved a 2-0 lead, but Gross also immediately realized this, and then he increased his prejudgment of the landing point of Xiang Peng's shot, by moving in advance to win the opportunity to take the lead in attacking, After scoring four consecutive points, he quickly reversed the score to 4-2.
The next game became a control and anti-control duel, when Xiang Peng was able to receive the ball through high-quality serve, not to Gross directly on the mobile phone meeting, he had the initiative on the field, in turn, once Gross was able to take the lead in attacking, the probability of his scoring was very large, the two also entered the hand-to-hand combat mode, until 10 draws, the key ball competition, the large proportion of the leading Gross more daring to shoot, and finally he also eliminated Xiang Peng 12-10, successfully advanced to the second round of men's singles.
Although in this WTT Grand Slam, Xiang Peng, who was born in 2003, stopped the first round of the men's singles main tournament, but he did not need to be discouraged at all, he was not afraid of failure when he was young, and only failure could make the players grow faster, I believe that after accumulating more experience, he will play a better performance on such a world series stage!