On March 18, Beijing time, WTT Singapore Grand Slam men's singles semifinals, Fan Zhendong defeated Yukiya Utada 4:2 to advance to the men's singles final, impacting his second gold medal in this competition, and Fan Zhendong's former partner Zhou Yu also explained the match, especially admiring Fan Zhendong's backhand ability.
This match came to the WTT Singapore match men's singles semifinals, against the two sides is Fan Zhendong and Uta Yukiya, the two have already played in the men's doubles game before, this is also a good thing for Fan Zhendong, after all, it is still necessary to be familiar with the opponent before the game, for this game Fan Zhendong still has an absolute advantage in strength, and Utah Yukiya wants to give Fan Zhendong an impact, in addition to his own change, it is also necessary to forcibly improve the quality of the attack to kill Fan Zhendong.
At the beginning of the first set in the game, the two sides played very actively, and the score on Utada Yukiya also bitten more deadly, did not let Fan Zhendong open a big score advantage, until the score in the middle of the game came to 8:6, Fan Zhendong only had a 2-point advantage, but fortunately Fan Zhendong's rhythm was stable enough, and it was still very good in the control of key points, with his own serve score 10:7 Fan Zhendong got the set point, but then a luck ball let Utada Yukiya chase the score to 8:10, and hold 2 serves, First of all, his fight returned to the straight line to score, and then He served Fan Zhendong or the anti-pressure offensive score to win the first set 11:9.
Judging from the first set of the two people's confrontation, Fan Zhendong is indeed thicker in strength, and the relative success rate is much higher when playing defensive counterattacks, and Utada Yukiya wants to fight Fan Zhendong, which can only be achieved through the fierceness of the first three boards and the forced change of line in the stalemate, in this case, Utada Yukiya, although in good shape, also fought some opportunities, but in the key points of testing strength, Fan Zhendong will still be more relaxed.
In the second set, the opening Utah Yukiya took the lead in serving, first Fan Zhendong's active starter attack score, after serving again, Utada Yukiya still chose to throw the ball high, but the continuous attack was Fan Zhendong instead of moving the line to score 2:0 Fan Zhendong led the start, and came to Fan Zhendong's serve wheel, his own serve link could not be grasped well, but was actively killed by Utada Yukiya to chase points, as Fan Zhendong's hand felt the ball on the wrong hand to lose points, the score was chased by Utada Yukiya to 2 draws.
Back to Utada Yukiya's serve wheel, sneak attack Fan Zhendong's backhand position bottom line was guarded by Fan Zhendong, the two sides made mistakes to each other, the score was also alternately rising, soon came to 4 draws, in the game Utada Yukiya has also been actively looking for a way, and gave Fan Zhendong a lot of pressure, the score of the two sides soon came to 7:5, Utada Yukiya achieved a 2-point lead, with Fan Zhendong's split long mistake to lose points, the score came to 8:5, and then Utada Yukiya got the set point at 10:6, And Zhou Yu has also been paying attention to the game and commenting on Fan Zhendong, thinking that his old partner is still a bit conservative, and is not very comfortable with Yukiya's serve, and soon Yukiya Utada won a set back 11:7.
In the third set, the two returned to the same running line, but Fan Zhendong began to play more decisively and positively after adjustment, and soon led Yukiya Utada 5:1, as Fan Zhendong took the ball and scored at a large angle, the score came to 6:1, in the middle of the game Yukiya began to actively chase the score, and soon chased the score to 4:6, but soon Fan Zhendong readjusted his rhythm and won the set point at 10:6, and then went to the next set at 11:7.
In the fourth set, the two sides still played quite fiercely, the score was alternately raised to 3 draws, fortunately, in the innings, Fan Zhendong quickly pulled the score to 5:3 through the control of the rhythm, and the follow-up competition between the two sides was still very fierce, but Fan Zhendong still maintained a 2-point advantage at 8:6, but the follow-up Yukiya Utada chased the ratio to 10 draws, and the two competed for the ball into the chase link, and the score climbed all the way to 14 draws, and finally scored 16:14 with the anti-pull collision net and then scored the next set. In the fifth set, Yukiya Utada broke out to chase another set at 13:11, and in the sixth set, Fan Zhendong still stabilized the rhythm and defeated Yukiya Utada 4:2 at 11:9 to advance to the men's singles final.
And in the whole game, as Fan Zhendong's former men's doubles partner Zhou Yu is also very sharp and cunning, including Fan Zhendong's change of mentality on the field and Fan Zhendong's strengths and weaknesses, especially Fan Zhendong's backhand ability and use of techniques and tactics are also quite understanding.