On the afternoon of March 17, Beijing time, the national table tennis world champion Liang Jingkun ushered in the challenge of a strong opponent at the WTT Grand Slam, that is, the Swedish star and the men's doubles champion of the Xinke World Table Tennis Championships, Karlsson, and the 55-year-old coach who sat outside to guide him was the world champion elder who had defeated Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui and others - Jorgen Perlson.
However, the current Swedish men's table tennis is not the era of Person and Waldner galloping after all, so although they are the world champions to guide the world champions this time, Karlsson was finally swept away in a 0-3 fiasco: the current men's singles final four list has been out of the second, The Chinese and Japanese players Liang Jingkun and Yukiya Utada have been promoted, and then it depends on the results of the match between Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Lin Yunru and Francesca!
Karlsson is a veteran of Sweden, he won the fourth place in the World Cup singles as early as 2015, and then fell silent for many years, and then broke out again in 2021, winning with teammate Fark (the men's singles runner-up of the World Table Tennis Championships) to win Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun / Lin Gaoyuan to win the men's doubles gold medal at the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, shaking the table tennis world, and is indeed a difficult opponent.
After the start of this game, Karlsson started very quickly in the first set, jumping and jumping as soon as he came up, constantly cheering himself up, and the two sides soon fell into a fierce battle, and the score continued to show draws. However, after 5-5, Liang Jingkun began to threaten, and Karlsson made a lot of mistakes, and then lost the first set 8-11.
At the beginning of the second set, Liang Jingkun took the lead and soon gained the lead, but was then strongly chased by the other side. Carlsson's main technical advantage is the flexibility of left-handed lines, plus the traditional strength and rotation of Europeans, but the problems of continuity and stability are relatively large, which also gives Liang Jingkun an opportunity.
Soon, Liang Jingkun once again seized on the opponent's loophole to organize a counterattack, and Karlsson's response seemed a bit bulky, with no strength to make, frequent mistakes, and then fell into a passive situation, some balls that looked like opportunities were not picked up, and then lost again at 7-11, and the big score was forced into a desperate situation after 0-2.
In the third set, Karlsson fought backwaters, and the start of the game achieved a leading advantage, but at this time Liang Jingkun had two sets in hand and victory in sight, so he did not hurry to organize an effective counterattack, and soon achieved a reversal, at which time Carlsson had to call out a timeout to adjust, and communicated with the old coach Perlson, after all, another loss would be completely finished.
After returning to the field, Carlsson began to make a strong arc ball impact, but the opposite Liang Jingkun was more powerful, and as a result, a high-quality match between the two sides still ended in a national table tennis victory, which also made Carlson look helpless: the good Cosmopolitan platform pair is the strength of the Europeans? My lord, times have changed!
However, just when Liang Jingkun's victory was in sight, he himself made a series of mistakes and conceded a few goals, which also made Carlsson hope for a reversal. When Liang Jingkun led 10-7, the national table tennis side also called a timeout to adjust, and the intention of this decision was also very clear: absolutely can not let the opponent seize the opportunity to reverse, try to end the battle 3-0!
After returning to the field, Carlsson chased the score to the point of 9-10 only 1 point difference, but in the end, Liang Jingkun locked up the victory with 11-9, and swept Carlson 3-0 to advance, which can also be regarded as a disguised revenge for last year's doubles loss to the other side! So can Liang Jingkun continue to exert his strength to impact the men's singles championship of this Grand Slam? Let's wait and see: big fat come on!