WTT Table Tennis Grand Slam ushered in a super reversal, the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships men's singles runner-up South Korea's adjunct An Jae-hyun in the 0-2 situation, the decider faced the opponent with 3 match points, tenaciously scored 5 consecutive points to upset 3-2 (7-11/7-11/11/11-5/11-5/12-10) eliminated the 40-year-old Chinese Taipei world champion Zhuang Jiyuan, sweeping away the haze of the Korean table tennis team two days ago, while the world table tennis championships men's doubles runner-up South Korea's Lim Jong-hoon / Zhang Yuzhen beat India's Ghanaese Karan/Achanta 3-0, and women's doubles strongster Liang Xiayin/Tian Zhixi beat Hungary's Pota/Madalas 3-0 to reach the quarterfinals.
The 40-year-old Zhuang Zhiyuan is one of the three fierce opponents of the national table tennis in the Athens Olympic cycle, when he was with Germany's Bohr and South Korea's Liu Chengmin was the most vigilant opponent of the Chinese men's team, and now over 40 years old, Bohr and Zhuang Zhiyuan are still active in the world table tennis arena, and have won many victories. Zhuang Zhiyuan/ Chen Jian'an defeated Ma Lin/Hao Shuai as a dark horse at the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships, and last week Zhuang Zhiyuan partnered Peng Wangwei to win the men's doubles runner-up in Oman last week. South Korea's Ahn Jae-hyun soared in the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, and after eliminating Zhang Benzhihe and other strong opponents in table tennis, he reached the men's singles semifinals and won the third place, and was also the main force of the South Korean men's team in the past two years.
The match is a competition for the men's singles round of 16, both of whom are ranked 20th in the world, and Zhuang Jiyuan is 27th higher than Ahn Jae-hyun at 45th. In the 1st set, Zhuang Jiyuan put in a faster state, using the near Taiwan fast attack to score consecutively, and finally won the first place 11-7, and won another round in the 2nd set, originally thought that Zhuang Jiyuan would be a 3-0 sweeping ending, An Jae-hyun began to launch a counterattack in the 3rd set, with physical advantages to play two consecutive 11-5 draws, the decider was still Zhuang Jiyuan more stable, 10-7 to get the match point, but Ahn Jae-hyun was not moved, from 0-2 to the decider 7-10 behind 5 points in a row, This game vividly reflects the traditional tenacious style of the Korean table tennis team.
South Korea's Jang Woo-jin / Lim Jong-hoon, runners-up in men's doubles at the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships, defeated Indian powerhouses GhanaEsekaram / Achanta 3-0 (11-7/ 11-7/ 11-6) in a match for the quarter-finals in the men's doubles. Jang Woo-jin was once a brother of the South Korean men's team, reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup, and the world ranking reached 10th, but after the Tokyo Olympics, the results were not good, and the world ranking has slipped to 20th. Lim Jong-hoon played strong on this station, 3-0 to send Lin Gaoyuan to open the door black, is also a rising star of Korean men's table tennis, the two will be a strong contender for the men's doubles championship of this station Grand Slam.
South Korean duo Tian Jixi and Liang Xiayin, who were once no. 2 in the world women's doubles, went 3-0 (11-7/ 11-5/ 11-9) to Hungary's Porta/Madalaz. Before and after the Tokyo Olympic Games, Tian Zhixi and the star of hope Shen Yubin partnered in women's doubles, the effect is general, not as impactful as Tian Zhixi / Liang Xiayin, the two were once ranked No. 2 in the world rankings, but because of the recent lack of cooperation, which eventually led to a decline in rankings, Shen Yubin was reimbursed for the basic season because of injury, Tian Zhixi re-cooperated with Liang Xiayin, defeated the Hungarian combination, and successfully advanced to the top 8.