Beijing time on March 15, 2022 news, WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament is now more than halfway through the schedule, singles quarterfinals fierce, has attracted much attention from the outside world. In the focus battles that have just ended, a number of national table tennis players have performed eye-catching, whether it is in the team competition or foreign competition, the overall strength remains online. Among them, on the men's singles side, with the tenacious reversal of the new junior Wang Chuqin by the national table tennis captain Dragon Team 3-2, Fan Zhendong, the current world men's singles world champion of the national table tennis, also suffered a long-lost "backwater battle": fortunately, he finally defended!
After Malone, 1 person also played tough! Fan Zhendong staged a Jedi counterattack 11-13, 1 point is very important! In the men's singles 1/8 final, the absolute main force of national table tennis, fan zhendong, the big favorite of the championship, and An Jae-hyun, the dark horse of Korean table tennis, met. Only from the perspective of paper strength, Fan Zhendong's strength thickness is far above An Zaixian, especially from the previous game against Japanese table tennis player Mori Yuan Masashi, it is enough to see the small fat hot feel of the "big killer", and then encounter the test of foreign war, Fan Zhendong's victory is a high probability event. Of course, it should also be seen that The Korean table tennis dark horse An Zaixian is also full of energy, and the upset reversal of the world table tennis champion Zhuang Zhiyuan made him popular for a while, in this context, the two fight, a big war is inevitable!
In this game, Fan Zhendong continued to be brave in form, firmly holding the control of the first three boards in his hands and comprehensively suppressing his opponents in terms of speed and rotation, thus achieving an 11-4 first set victory. However, from the second set, An Jae-hyun made tactical adjustments, let Fan Zhendong walk at his own pace, through strengthening the fight, "borrowing force" of the backhand and other means gradually took the initiative, Fan Zhendong's side was some of the bigger and more uncomfortable taste, although once tried to chase points and pull back a few innings, but still lost two consecutive sets of 6-11, 11-13. In the fourth set, Fan Zhendong, who could not retreat, staged a Jedi counterattack!
Xiao Fat obviously learned from the experience of the first two sets of defeat, he moved Ahn Jae-hyun's big angle, no longer made a backhand hard touch, and at the same time deliberately slowed down the pace of the game, making It difficult for Ahn Jae-hyun to adapt for a while, so it became the key to the final reversal. Fan Zhendong then completed the equaliser 11-5. In the decider, Fan Zhendong effectively limited Ahn Jae-hyun's starting hand, while resisting the opponent's final crazy chase momentum, and then took the next set 11-7. In the end, Fan Zhendong stubbornly reversed the dark horse of Korean table tennis 3-2 and reached the quarterfinals.
Obviously, Fan Zhendong was not lucky to be able to achieve the final victory. It is very important that Xiao Fat was able to achieve a Jedi counterattack at 11-13, obviously fully absorbing the lesson of being limited by the opponent's backhand in the first two sets and losing the rhythm of the game into passivity. Through this campaign, we have seen Fan Zhendong's more comprehensive strength display: world-class on-the-spot adjustment ability, strong reading competition level and strong downwind ability to resist pressure. While congratulating Xiao Fat on his final victory, the author would also like to thank An Zaixian, it is precisely because of such an opponent as him that Fan Zhendong can be stimulated to have greater potential, and it is also a quick thing to meet the opponent!