On the evening of March 14, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Grand Slam tournament continued, and xu Xin, the olympic champion of national table tennis, appeared on the scene to compete with Sweden's Perlson. But interestingly, some old fans were confused before the game started: the opponent Person? Was it the world champion veteran who was on a par with Waldner and competed with Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui and others, and he was still playing?
In fact, it is not, the person who played against Xu Xin this time is called Joe Perlson, and the world champion just mentioned is called Jorgen Person, and he is Joe Person's off-field coach this time, and the result is that the old and young Persons together failed to create a good result, although there was a 14-16 score in a single game, but the big score was finally 0-3 and did not qualify for the round of 16: it is indeed not an opponent!
But fans who pay attention to table tennis for a long time will not be unaware of the big name of Jorgen Person - the table tennis veteran was already the European Championship singles champion as early as the 1980s, and later in 1989, he swept the Chinese team 5-0 with Waldner, Apelelen and others to win the gold medal of the men's team of the World Table Tennis Championships, and also won the silver medal in the men's singles (losing to Lao Wa in the final).
In 1991, the old Person won the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup singles championship consecutively, becoming the "strongest table tennis player on the surface" that year, and later in 2000, he defeated Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui consecutively, and won the World Table Tennis Championships men's team championship with Lao Wa, and later reached the olympic final four twice, and is currently serving as the head coach of the Swedish men's team, so he has the opportunity to play again with the national table tennis team.
Although the younger generations of the old Person (now 55 years old) still have a gap compared with him, but in this battle with Xu Xin, the little Person (who is actually 35 years old) who is armed with an octagonal racket played very bravely, indeed he was a dead Olympic champion, and as a result, the two sides played back and forth in the first set, but in the end Xu Xin was skilled and won 11-9.
In the second set, Person Jr. and Xu Xin played hard to solve the score, and once achieved a score lead, but in the last few minutes, they were tied, and the two sides continued to fight as many as 10 goals after 10-10, and finally Xu Xin won 16-14, and the big score of 2-0 led the opponent into a desperate situation!
In the third set, Person had no way back, and tried to turn the tables in a backwater battle, but xu Xin's momentum on this side had fully come up, and in the end he did not give the veteran the opportunity to reverse or even play a key point, after a wild bombardment, he got 4 match points 10-6, and finally locked up the victory 11-6, and swept the opponent to advance with a big score of 3-0: Congratulations to Xu Xin!
Although the Swedish veteran lost today's game, he played really well, especially the threat of the near-Taiwan forehand rush and the backhand after-force bounce is very large, combined with the performance of the Swedish youngster Moregold, who also uses an octagonal racket, and the latest equipment evaluation, we have reason to believe that this racket does have a bonus to the near station, or will become a blessing for some backhand twisting skills that are not passed.
Finally, congratulations to Xu Xin again! I look forward to his later play to be more exciting: come on!