Just when we were still passionate about the seven-game battle played by Ma Long and Fan Zhendong on the WTT Singapore Grand Slam, and the mood could not be calmed for a long time, another group of national table tennis players had already competed for the first round of the WTT regular season challenge, but it was a pity that even Liu Dingshuo, a runner-up player of the National Games, faced Hugo Calderaweino, who was out of the first round of the Grand Slam, in the regular season of Doha, or suffered a 0-3 defeat. Encountered a first-round exit situation. This also reminds us from one side that even if our national table tennis has top masters such as Ma Long and Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin have always been making progress, and have made certain breakthroughs in the world arena, allowing people to witness the extremely strong competitiveness of national table tennis, but the overall team competitiveness of the national table tennis men's team is still significantly inferior to the women's team. And there are some weak points, such as the competitiveness of the upper and middle players in the world arena is always insufficient, it is difficult to maintain a sustained high level of play in front of various masters, it is difficult to do like women's table tennis, can form a team of about 5 people, all in the world arena to become the role of seeing God and killing God, seeing Buddha killing Buddha.
We return to the game itself between Liu Dingshuo and Hugo Calderano. In fact, masters like Hugo, including Lin Yunru, Aruna, Dakoyoc, and Francesca, Falke, Simon Gauc and other famous players, have made relatively wise choices. It is because I do not have any special expectations for my performance in the Grand Slam. Knowing that there is a clear difference between the two competitions from the prize money, points and the grade of the participating players, even if the time interval between the two events is particularly short, they are still registered on both sides. Of course, they did not reach the end of the Grand Slam arena, and they could still go to Doha to participate in the regular challenge under more tense circumstances. This time Calderano, in the Grand Slam arena, suffered the dilemma of the first set out, so he can quickly reach the doha challenge and start a head-on confrontation with Liu Dingshuo.
However, the second-tier players of national table tennis, although they will have strong competitiveness in China, are always in an unstable situation in the world arena. Although the national table tennis coaching staff has been trying to find ways to create opportunities for these players to compete. For example, in the Grand Slam tournament here, the main force and players close to the main force have come to participate, and the second-tier players have also signed up. However, from Yu Ziyang, to Sun Wen, plus Zeng Beixun and other members of the national table tennis men's team, they failed to show a good competitive state and suffered an early exit. Only 3 of the 11 male national table tennis players also advanced to the main tournament. Liu Dingshuo as one of the more prominent relative strength of this group of players, also failed to go further in the game, in the face of Calderrano's strong performance, Liu Dingshuo basically did not kill the board in the attack, the first three boards and serves and serve links, but also did not reflect the advantage of change, once Calderano completely occupied the advantage of rhythm, it was not able to seize the opportunity in any set, had to accept 6-11, 8-11 and 13-15, suffered a 3-0 clean sheet result.
Of course, comparatively speaking, in the third set of the two sides, Liu Dingshuo played more actively under the premise of already facing a clean sheet, and also used some fighting methods, so he could bite tightly in the score, but the attack of The Far East Has always been calderano's advantage, he once easily defeated Lin Gaoyuan with this advantage, and now in the same way, he has achieved a comprehensive suppression of Liu Dingshuo. However, after a regular match day, the national table tennis men's team was only left with Zhao Zihao, Yuan Licen and Xu Haidong. We look forward to these second-tier players playing. Don't let us only see the strength of Fan Zhendong and Ma Long, but also witness their progress and growth.