In the early morning of March 19, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Doha regular season broke out a super cold, the national table tennis world champion Ziyang was eliminated in the first round of the qualifiers, 2-0 lead after losing 3 consecutive sets by Chinese Taipei's Huang Yancheng reversed, and the opponent is only 19 years old, the world ranking is only 306.
It is worth mentioning that it is this Huang Yancheng, who only cooperated with teammate Feng Yixin in the WTT Doha Regional Championships dozens of hours ago to eliminate the national table tennis combination Xu Haidong / Yuan Licen, and finally won the championship, it seems that it is really a rival that cannot be underestimated, worthy of national table tennis attention!
Yu Ziyang everyone should be familiar with, once the hope star of national table tennis, born in 1998 at the age of 15, he defeated Mizutani Falcon, became the youngest open men's singles champion in the history of table tennis at that time (this record was later broken by Zhang Benzhihe), and in 2018, he was selected into the main team of the men's team of the national table tennis World Cup, and then realized the dream of world championship.
However, in the past 3 years or so, Yu Ziyang's performance has been quite bad, the foreign war has been losing continuously, the civil war has no advantage, and he has long been left behind, and as a result, he dropped the chain in the Doha regular season.
In the showdown with Huang Yancheng, Yu Ziyang played very hard in the first two sets, first 12-10 to the top, and then 13-11 to win the second set, but at least won, and because the game was a best-of-five system, he had already forced his opponent into a desperate situation with a 2-0 lead at this time.
But the situation in the next game suddenly changed: Huang Yancheng quickly counterattacked successfully, winning three consecutive sets 11-6, 11-9, 11-6, thus achieving a big reversal, 3-2 elimination of Yu Ziyang to advance to the second round of the qualifiers.
I have to say that the situation of Yu Ziyang's loss is really too serious, from the main force to the non-main force, from the foreign association to the player who is not famous. But to be fair, he was originally a little lucky to be selected for the World Cup that year (the Table Tennis Association gave young athletes a special competition place), and later won the championship and did not send him to play, and his gold medal came a little too easily.
In the end, I still hope that Yu Ziyang can regain his good state, strive to catch up with his teammates, and become an important person in the team again: come on, young man!