On the evening of March 15, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Grand Slam broke out a super unpopular, the number one opponent of national table tennis, the world's No. 3 Japanese Olympic champion Ito Mimachi was reversed in the case of a 1-0 lead, losing 3 consecutive sets to the French Chinese player, the 36-year-old Yuan Jiannan.
Yuan Jiannan is currently ranked only 67th in the world, and there are no particularly brilliant results in singles before, how to look at it does not seem to be like it is ito's opponent, I did not expect to win the game, many people can't help but sigh: competitive sports are really invincible!
Yuan Jiannan is a member of the Chinese Table Tennis Overseas Corps, her playing style is very rare, she is a cross-cutting rubber player, so the average person is very unfamiliar with her ball path.
In fact, Ito Mimachi herself is also a special playing player, but she is a horizontal shooting glue, relatively speaking, there are still more athletes, in the past, it was others to adapt to Ito Mimachi's ball path, and this time it was her turn to adapt to Yuan Jiannan, and as a result, she failed to control the situation, and then collapsed.
In the first set, Ito played steadily, and soon came out on top 11-5, and everything looked natural, which was expected by most fans. However, in the next game, Ito Mimako was obviously not accustomed to Yuan Jiannan's positive glue playing style, and then made more and more mistakes.
In the second set, Ito Mimachi lost 7-11, and the third set was backward at the beginning, Ito Mimachi once chased to the point of only 1 point, the result was still 8-11 and then lost, the big score was forced into a desperate situation 1-2, the situation is very bad.
After the start of the third set, Ito Mimachi was defeated again, and soon fell behind 1-3, so he quickly called out a timeout to adjust and communicate with his "small fresh meat" coach Matsuzaki Taisuke, after all, if he lost like this, he would be doomed.
However, after returning to the field, Ito still played a mess, and soon fell behind 4-10, and Yuan Jiannan got as many as 6 match points. At the critical moment, Ito Mimachi chased the score to the point of 7-10 consecutively, and then Yuan Jiannan dramatically ended the battle with a return ball, thus eliminating the world's No. 3 Ito Mimachi to advance, which was really unexpected!
At present, Tomokazu Zhang Ben and Ito Mimachi have been eliminated, and the Japanese team has suffered repeated defeats, I wonder if Ishikawa Yoshinori and Hayata Hina can continue to advance? Let's wait and see!