On the evening of March 21, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Doha regular season once again broke out of the cold, the new World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles champion Carlsson in the 1-0, 2-1 lead in the case of a tragic reversal of a round of travel, and defeated him is the South Korean famous player, who once cried at the World Table Tennis Championships Zhang Ben Zhihe, only a few days ago in the WTT Grand Slam tournament with Fan Zhendong 5 rounds of bad match a south Korean star Ahn Jae Hyun.
Although An Zaixian has been silent for nearly four years after the state of the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, it turns out that his strength is still very strong, indeed a difficult opponent, even Fan Zhendong was almost pulled off by him, which is really not to be underestimated!
Karlsson and An Zaixian are both masters of the foreign association, the former won the fourth place in the men's singles of the World Cup in 2015, and last year's World Table Tennis Championships was a cooperation with Fark to win the national table tennis combination Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun / Lin Gaoyuan to win the championship, breaking the Swedish captain's twenty-one-year championship drought, which can not be underestimated.
And An Zaixian's previous most prominent record is the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships burst into the men's singles final four to win the bronze medal, especially the 1/8 final Zhang Benzhihe played a bitter cry is still fresh in people's memories, this year's Grand Slam tournament was once 2-1 leading Fan Zhendong, almost bursting out of the super cold, there are indeed two brushes!
After the game began, Carlsson used his tall arms and strength, and the flexibility of the left-handed landing line to contain Ahn Jae-hyun's powerful forehand attack, and then won the first set easily at 11-4. In the second set, the two sides played more glue, Ahn Jae-hyun withstood the pressure in the key points, pulled back a city 12-10, and the two sides returned to the same running line.
In the third set, the two were still the key points to decide the winner or loser, and as a result, this time the wind and water took turns, and Karlsson won 11-9, and the big score of 2-1 led forced the opponent into a desperate situation, and victory was in sight. However, in the fourth set, Ahn Jae-hyun once again showed the tenacity of the Korean team, and won 11-8, successfully dragging the game into the decider.
In the fifth set, Carlsson had dropped significantly in momentum, while Ahn Jae-hyun was getting more and more courageous, and then won 3 match points 10-7. At the critical moment, the world champion counterattacked to the point of 9-10 only 1 point difference, but unfortunately in the end, he was unable to return to the sky, lost 9-11, and was reversed by the opponent's big score 3-2, and the round of the game was eliminated.
At present, it seems that Ahn Jae-hyun, Lin Jong-hoon and Cho Dae-sung are very hopeful to become the new "troika" of Korean men's table tennis, and the Chinese team must not be prevented! So how far can Ahn Jae-hyun go this time? Let's wait and see what he does later!