On the afternoon of March 12, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Grand Slam once again broke out of the big cold, South Korea's world champion, Liang Xiayin, who had won the mixed doubles gold medal of the World Table Tennis Championships with Xu Xin, lost 2-3 to Brazil's Bruna after 5 rounds of hard fighting, of which the decider only lost 2 points, and the "round tour" of the main game was eliminated, which is a pity!
I have to say that Liang Xiayin has been regressing since he won the world championship title, and this year's state has recovered, and the result is that the first foreign war ended hastily, which is indeed a bad performance.
Liang Xiayin is very familiar to everyone, the mixed doubles champion of the 2015 Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships, and Xu Xin formed a transnational pairing result to the end of the laughter, achieving a good story in the history of table tennis. Since the last time South Korean women's table tennis won the world championship was in 1993, Liang Xiayin also became the only world champion of the team in the past twenty-nine years.
However, clear-eyed people know that the main credit for Liang Xiayin's world championship gold medal is still from Xu Xin, and her own strength is not particularly prominent, and in recent years, it has deteriorated, and it has already fallen out of the top three in South Korea, and this Grand Slam tournament has once again broken the sand.
In the first round of the women's singles, Liang Xiayin encountered The Brazilian player Bruna, who was far less famous than himself, and as a result, they played a difficult game in the first set, and finally the latter won 16-14. In the second set, Liang Xiayin let go of his hands and feet, won 11-8 and then took advantage of the chase to win the third set 11-5, just one step away from victory.
However, the resilience of the Brazilian athletes is indeed very sufficient, Bruna first gritted her teeth in the fourth set, 11-9 to fight Liang Xiayin, and then won again in the decider 11-9, the big score 3-2 defeat of the world champion to advance to the women's singles second round, it is really unexpected!
From the current pattern of Korean women's table tennis, Tian Zhixi and Shen Yubin are well-deserved top 2 people, and even if Shen Yubin has been seriously injured recently, Liang Xiayin still has some difficulties in competing for the top 3 position, perhaps he still has to learn from the national table tennis to strengthen himself, otherwise the future road will be difficult to go.
At present, the Brazilian male table tennis star and the world's No. 3 Hugo has been upset, and the well-known female player Bruna has eliminated the world champion, which is really a victory or defeat! So can this player still create a good result? Let's wait and see!