On March 22, Beijing time, the ITTF Doha Regular Season Challenge was underway. Ongoing is the men's singles quarter-final battle, with Zhao Zihao, a national table tennis straight-board player, facing Denmark's famous Gross. In the first game, the two sides have been testing each other at the beginning, holding the ball not much, after a 3:3 draw, the straight board player Zhao Zihao took the initiative to start, and Zhao Zihao led 8:5. Zhao Zihao won the set point 10:8.
Denmark's Gross did not give up, with fighting tactics, chased to 9:10. In the end, Zhao Zihao made a big fuss and locked up the victory 11:9, leading 1:0. After winning one game first, Zhao Zihao clenched his fists and roared angrily, very excited. In this open tournament, the national table tennis men's singles only left Zhao Zihao and Yuan Licen, so Zhao Zihao is under great pressure.
In the second set, Zhao Zihao was full of momentum and took a 4-0 lead at the beginning. In the middle of the game, Gross trailed to 2:5. Subsequently, Zhao Zihao scored consecutive offensive points with excellent landing points, and opened the score gap again at 8:3. Zhao Zihao easily won the set point 10:4, and Zhao Zihao won another set at 11:4, leading 2:0. Today, Zhao Zihao's spirit is very strong, completely releasing pressure and emotions.
In the third set, Zhao Zihao started 4:3. Zhao Zihao completely overwhelmed his opponent in momentum, and after scoring, he kept clenching his fists and roaring angrily to cheer himself up. The whole stadium was the shouts of Zhao Zihao, Zhao Zihao won the match point 10:5, and Gross chased to 7:10. Subsequently, Zhao Zihao requested a suspension. In the end, Zhao Zihao locked up the victory 12:10, living up to expectations, and the total score was 3:0 clean sheet for European player Gross, advancing to the men's singles quarterfinals and impacting the men's singles championship.
In this open tournament, the national table tennis men's singles originally had 12 participants, but in the qualifying round, 8 people have been eliminated, including world champions Yu Ziyang, Zhou Qihao, Sun Wen, Xue Fei, which are familiar to fans. Only 4 people advanced to the main competition, namely Zhao Zihao, Yuan Licen, Liu Dingshuo, and Xu Haidong. In the first round of the main match, Xu Haidong chose to retire, and Liu Dingshuo lost to Brazil's famous Hugo 0:3 on aggregate.
In this case, there are only two people left in the national table tennis men's singles at present. Next, the national table tennis teenager Yuan Licen faced The famous Chinese Taipei player Lin Yunru, this game is very difficult to play, Yuan Licen suffered a huge test. In other arenas, top seed Hugo faced Sweden's Carlberg, German-Chinese Player Qiu Dang faced France's Simon, Dakow faced South Korea's Ahn Jae-hyun, and Hwang Jin-ting faced Croatia's Pukal.