Table tennis WTT Doha regular season fierce battle is in full swing, Beijing time on the evening of March 21, the women's singles number one seed, China Hong Kong team famous Du Kaixuan (ranked 7th in the world) upset out, 1-3 defeat to Sweden's Bergstreng (world ranking 58), just played was eliminated, really unexpected!
At the end of last year, Du Kaixuan swept the national table tennis Olympic champion Wang Manyu 3-0 in the WTT World Cup final, and at the beginning of this year, he and Chen Meng fought a vicious battle for 5 sets and lost, but this time they were out of the round. It is worth mentioning that this Bergstrom also eliminated the national table tennis combination Qian Tianyi / Liu Weishan in the women's doubles competition, it seems that the state is really good, and the next round of national table tennis player Fan Siqi is facing severe challenges.
Du Kaixuan is a "sister" figure of the Chinese Hong Kong team, the technical style is very close to the national team, belongs to the two-sided anti-glue speed type of playing athletes, its strength can be regarded as first-class among the female table tennis players of the Foreign Association, second only to Ito Mimachi, Hayata Hina and others, compared with Ishikawa Yoshinori, Hirano Miyu will not be bad.
In 2021, Du Kaixuan's singles performance has improved significantly, of which sweeping Wang Manyu is undoubtedly his proud work. And in the 2022 WTT Macau Competition, she almost pulled Chen Meng off the horse. Du Kaixuan was the number one seed in the WTT Doha regular season, and naturally had high hopes, but she collapsed when she met players whose strength was far inferior to Wang Manyu and Chen Meng.
Begstrom, who played against Du Kaixuan, is a chipper, who is not particularly famous in the table tennis world and has decent technique. After the game began, the two sides played a difficult game in the first set, and as a result, Du Kaixuan narrowly won 11-9, and indeed some were not familiar with the rotation of the opponent's cutting ball.
At the start of the second set, Bergstrom began to exert his strength, showing the essence of his playing style, and with a fierce operation, he equalized 11-5, and the two sides returned to the same running line. In the third set, Du Kaixuan was even more imposing, and then lost 4-11, but was forced to a desperate situation by the other side!
In the fourth set, Du Kaixuan was still full of mistakes, and in the end she lost the whole game 7-11 - a few days ago, Du Kaixuan also lost to the European players at the WTT Grand Slam, when she lost 1-3 to Austria's Polkanova, and also lost 3 sets in a row of 1-0, which was reversed, and it was really not good.
At present, Du Kaixuan's technique is still enough, but the on-the-spot changes in the game are very different, especially in the face of some special opponents: Polkanova is a ceiling figure in the height of women's table tennis, and the batting consciousness is different; Bergstrom is a cutting style of play, of course, there are also its special features.
If you want to achieve good results, you must not "kill and be afraid of life", and look forward to Du Kaixuan's next game to have a better play.