The 32-to-16 game of the WTT Grand Slam continued. Fan Zhendong, the main player of national table tennis, who is the top seed in the men's singles, has ushered in the challenge of The famous MoriEn Masataka from Japan. Although in terms of world rankings, Fan Zhendong is ranked first in the world, while MoriEn Masashige's world ranking is only 56th. However, because in the Japanese table tennis team, in addition to the veteran Mizutani Hayabusa, the performance of other players is more obvious, so even if Morien Masataka's world ranking is not high, there is a big gap between Himon and Fan Zhendong, but for Fan Zhendong, it is still necessary to pay attention to this opponent, after all, the other party has many times defeated the world's fourth ranked Zhang Benzhihe's experience, and needs Xiao Fat to mobilize his own state, strive to defeat the opponent in a more relaxed way, and minimize entanglement with the other party.
In the first set of the game, due to the small number of previous encounters with Mori En Masashi, the opponent's playing style was not very clear, so Fan Zhendong started a bit slowly, and once fell behind Mori En Masashi by a score of 4-6. However, with the continuous adaptation to the opponent's playing style, Fan Zhendong's own comprehensive ability is still a little bit reflected, he not only caught up with the score to 6-6, 7-7, but also after the middle game, gradually controlled the situation on the field, and achieved a 10-7 score lead, and finally won the first set of the game with an 11-8 score, thus achieving a 1-0 lead on the big score.
In the second set of the game, Fan Zhendong has an understanding of Mori Garden Masashi's playing style and line, it can be said that whether it is in the first three boards, or holding the ball, as well as the control of the line and the landing point, they have occupied a comprehensive upper hand, from the beginning of the game to obtain a 4-1 lead, and always maintain this lead, in the middle of the game stage also further expanded the score lead, the score of the two sides also came to 7-3, 9-4 and 10-4, Mori Garden Masashi was in front of Fan Zhendong's full play appeared to be a little anxious, After the force was too strong, it caused a significant increase in its own mistakes, 11-6, Fan Zhendong went down to the next city, thus achieving a 2-0 lead of the big score, and the victory of the game was close at hand.
The game entered the third set of contention, has been forced to the edge of the cliff in the case of Mori Yuan Masashige, the big score of 0-2 behind, the game came up to take the lead, dare to use fighting tactics, although the opening Fan Zhendong to take a 2-0 lead, but Mori Yuan Masashi's strong attack not only let him equalize the score, but also achieved a counter-overtake, and in the middle of the game to achieve an 8-4 lead. Subsequently, Fan Zhendong played steadily, chasing the score to 9-10 and taking advantage of a multi-round round return ball opportunity to chase the score to a 10-10 draw. The final decisive point, or Fan Zhendong after the formation of the confrontation of the higher quality of the board, Morien Masashi also appeared twice back to the net, 13-11, Fan Zhendong with a stable psychological quality and strong scoring ability on the key points, won the third game at the same time, but also won the final victory of the game with a 3-0 aggregate score (three sets: 11-8, 11-6 and 13-11).
Such a victory is also enough to show that for Fan Zhendong, in fact, no matter who the opponent is, his real opponent is himself. Even if the number of confrontations with the opponent is small and the opponent's playing style is not understood, in the process of gradual adaptation, Fan Zhendong can regain the initiative of the game in his own hands through his own adjustment. And even in the face of the other side's fighting tactics, as long as Fan Zhendong's own mistakes can be controlled, it will be difficult for the other side to penetrate Fan Zhendong's defense line in the confrontation. In the third set, although Morien Masataka won an 8-4 and 10-9 lead through the fight, Fan Zhendong's key point handling ability was really getting stronger and stronger, he not only did not panic, but scored consecutively, 13-11 to achieve a reversal in the third set. Today, Masashi Morien, like Zhang Benzhihe, has missed the round of 16 in advance, which also proves the overall gap between the Japanese men's table tennis and the national table tennis men's team. Let us congratulate Fan Zhendong and look forward to his continued steady performance in the following games.