WTT Grand Slam is still in the first round of singles competition, the South Korean team has encountered a huge crisis, the first round of the main round has not yet ended, there are 5 major players tragically out of a round of swimming, The Korean table tennis executives should be angry again. As early as the previous Olympic Games, South Korean athletes were quite angry because of the lack of grain, and directly regarded Jung Young-sik as a scapegoat, so that the world table tennis competition list was dominated by young players. The focus on training young players could improve the plight of the Korean team, and the results became worse and worse.
In the first round of the Grand Slam tournament, Tian Zhixi, a sister of Han Ping Pong, did not sign well, met liu Shiwen, a veteran of national table tennis, and lost 0-3. Although Liu Shiwen has not participated in international competitions for a long time, she is after all a top four player in the National Games. In particular, the elbow injury is gradually recovering, the strength is still among the world's first-class, and Tian Zhixi is not his opponent. Tian Zhixi can only pray that the next big draw lottery will not meet chinese players early, otherwise the position of the first sister will soon be unstable.
Cui Xiaozhu and Liang Xiayin, the two main women's table tennis players, followed Tian Zhixi out. Cui Xiaozhu met Shan Xiaona, and both of them were the main players of each other's national teams, but Cui Xiaozhu's singles ability was average, and he unfortunately lost 1-3. Liang Xiayin is slightly better than Choi Hyo-joo, and he lost five sets with Brazil's Bruna Takahashi and had a chance to advance to the second round of the main tournament. Helplessly unable to grasp the key points, he became the third member of the Korean women's team to be out.
The situation of the South Korean men's team is also not good, Lee Sang-so lost 2-3 to Africa's brother Aruna. Since Jung Young-sik's successive absences from the competition, Lee Sang-so has won more singles opportunities. However, Lee Sang-so has always had mediocre results, and even less capable of being upset than Jung Young-sik, and this competition is out again. Lee Sang-so is still good at mixed doubles matches, and the singles game lacks a bright performance. Coupled with the gradual increase in age, young teammates are about to catch up.
Zhang Yuzhen, who once had the opportunity to become the first brother of the South Korean team, was doubly disappointed, and after the poor performance of the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, this time he lost 3-1 to Hong Kong's Hwang Jin-ting. Jang Yu-jin once showed outstanding singles ability in the World Cup, but it was only a flash in the pan, and then the competitive state fell sharply, but the South Korean executive did not make him a scapegoat. Another player of the South Korean men's team, Lin Jong-hoon, is not good to sign, the first round of the main round of the main match against the main force of national table tennis Lin Gaoyuan, the probability of encountering a round of travel, just wait for the evening game.
At present, the best performance of the South Korean team is the 35-year-old veteran Xu Xiaoyuan, who narrowly defeated Sweden's Bergstrom 3-2. Xu Xiaoyuan had already reached retirement age and also handed over the position of first sister to Tian Zhixi. I didn't expect to be the pride of the Korean women's team at the end of my career, which is probably something that Xu Xiaoyuan couldn't imagine. Now watching his teammates out one after another, Seo Hyo-won can only strive to reach the quarterfinals to make up for the regrets of the South Korean team.