WTT Singapore Grand Slam, Quarter-finals: Yau Dang (Germany) vs Carlberg (Sweden)
Qiu Dang held the racket in his right hand, and Karlberg held the horizontal shot in his right hand.
Qiu Dang has the delicacy of the small ball technology in the straight board player's stage, and he is in Europe, the forehand offensive strength is not weak, and the straight shot and horizontal play are also very slippery, and can smoothly open the bow left and right. However, during his game, the ups and downs are relatively large.
In the first set, Qiu Dang took a 3-1, 5-2 lead, 6-3, 7-4 in the innings, and was chased to an 8-8 draw. Qiu Dang grabbed the serve wheel and let the opponent eat the serve in succession, and Qiu Dang held 2 innings 10-8, and finally went to the next city 11-9.
In the second set, the two began with a tie-break until 4-4. Carlberg did not fight with Qiu Dang for the ball in the table, and took the initiative to form a far platform confrontation to take a 6-4 lead. Qiu Dang grabbed his own serve wheel and tied the score 6-6 again. After 7-7, Carlberg was obviously in a hurry, and successive blind starters made mistakes, and Qiu Dang was optimistic about success, winning another set 11-7 and leading 2:0.
In the third set, Qiu Dang started 3-0, forcing his opponent to request a timeout.
Returning from a timeout, Carlberg chased two straight points to finally tie 6-6 in the middle of the innings. After 7-7, Qiu's mistakes increased, and Carlberg scored four consecutive points to win back a set at 11-7, trailing 1:2.
In the fourth set, Carlberg had to win the set to drag the score into the decider, so he tried to grab the start and take a 3-1 lead. Not to be outdone, Qiu Dang quickly tied the score and overtaken 6-4. Carlberg played a wave of 4-0, Qiu Dang immediately returned a wave of 5-0, and finally won the last set 11-8, thus winning the opponent 3:1 and successfully advancing to the men's singles quarterfinals, congratulations.
Taking a little inventory of the active straight board players, the 32-year-old Xu Xin is undoubtedly still the "strongest king", with strength and ornamentality, which fascinates countless fans. Although Xue Fei of the domestic Mesozoic Generation has a certain strength, it is not prominent, and it is still far from Xu Xin's level. Huang Zhenting, 30 years old of the Hong Kong team, has seen a decline in strength in the past two or three years, and it is possible to lose. Counting and counting, the 25-year-old Qiu Dang is the most promising of the active straight board players. Qiu Dang's parents and brother were both former table tennis players and can be said to have come from a table tennis family.
If the national table tennis team wants to restore the glory of the straight board play, my suggestion is to separate the straight board play and run the game alone. In this way, the soil of China's direct pat play will be precious, and it will not be marginalized by the horizontal board play.
The Table Tennis Association should exert its influence and promote the individual competition of straight board play to WTT events, so that everyone can see the charm of it. After all, the straight board playing method originated from Chinese holding chopsticks, which is the perfect embodiment of the localization of table tennis in China, and hopes to be passed on forever.