On the afternoon of March 14, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Grand Slam tournament continued, and the 40-year-old Veteran of the Chinese Taipei team and the World Table Tennis Championships Men's Doubles Champion Zhuang Jiyuan appeared on the stage to compete with the 22-year-old South Korea World Table Tennis Championships men's singles runner-up An Jae-hyun.
In this battle, Zhuang Zhiyuan played very proactively, and once he came up, he led 2-0 to force the opponent into a desperate situation, but then Ahn Jae-hyun pulled two consecutive sets, and the two sides could only divide the victory and defeat in the decider, and as a result, Zhuang Zhiyuan lost 5 points in a row in a 10-7 lead, and finally regretted being eliminated by the reversal, which was a pity!
Zhuang Zhiyuan was born in 1981, once an important opponent of national table tennis, won the main athletes such as Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Ma Long, won the finals singles championship, the fourth place in the Olympic singles and the men's doubles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, and now although he is older, he is still in good shape and is an "evergreen" figure in the table tennis world.
An Zaixian was born in 1999, once in the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships a blockbuster, eliminated Zhang Benzhihe and others to win the bronze medal, to this day everyone still remembers Zhang Benzhihe after the game crying and weeping, but in recent years, An Zaixian's results have not improved, and it is difficult to say how much advantage this showdown has.
After the game began, Chuang Ji-won pressed his opponent with the fast-tracking ball he was good at, and quickly led the score, while Ahn Jae-hyun tried to counterattack with the traditional korean team's traditional arc ball, but with little success, completely controlled by the veteran, and then lost the first set 7-11, playing very unsatisfactory.
In the second set, Zhuang Jiyuan still firmly grasped the initiative on the field, and Ahn Jae-hyun could not lift his head, and soon won 11-7, thus forcing his opponent into a desperate situation with a 2-0 lead. In the third set, Ahn Jae-hyun fought back and finally took a 7-1 opening lead, and then pulled back a city 11-5.
In the fourth set, Ahn Jae-hyun did not want to lose 1-3, and Chuang Ji-won did not want to drag it to the decider to expend his physical strength, so the two sides fought very fiercely, and the result was that Ahn Jae-hyun won 11-5, and the pressure shifted to Chuang Ji-won's side. In the fifth round of the big battle, the two came up to fight hard to solve the score, and as a result, Zhuang Zhiyuan lost 3 match points and was reversed, regrettably stopping the men's singles round of 32.
Today's game, An Zaixian's main problem is that the near platform can not stand, always forced by Zhuang Zhiyuan to the middle and far platform, naturally everywhere subject to people; and Zhuang Zhiyuan's loophole is that the offensive force is small, easy to be pulled back by the opponent - a very wonderful game, look forward to seeing more such duels in the future!