On the afternoon of March 24, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Doha regular season ushered in the first final competition, the national table tennis players Zhang Rui and Fan Siqi met in the last round of women's singles, launched a duel, the result of the two sides fought 7 rounds to divide the victory and defeat, Zhang Rui in the decider 5-1 lead collapsed, and finally only lost 2 points, 9-11 defeat, it is indeed regrettable.
It is worth mentioning that as a sparring partner who imitated Ito Mimachi in the team, Zhang Rui defeated two Japanese strong opponents Zhang Benmeiwa and Kihara Miyu in this Doha regular season, but unfortunately she still failed to pass the level of teammates in the final, but it is also good that she can continue to make contributions in foreign battles, which is also worthy of everyone's affirmation!
Fan Siqi and Zhang Rui are both right-handed horizontal flap players, but the backhand rubber is different, the former is a more common anti-glue, the latter is a granular glue, so the technical and tactical system has some of the same, but the difference is also very large.
Although both are athletes who play speed, Zhang Rui relies more on fast attack, with prominent strengths and obvious loopholes, and Fan Siqi is relatively balanced. For teammates who are more familiar with each other, the special playing style is actually not dominant, and Zhang Rui must enter the state as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to let the anti-glue rotation advantage play out.
After the game began, Fan Siqi did indeed destroy Zhang Rui's fast attack rhythm by increasing the rotation of the bat, and soon gained an advantage, while Zhang Rui's side was frequently mistaken and difficult to match the point, and then lost the first set 7-11, playing very unsatisfactory, and did not play the specialty of the birth glue fast attack.
In the second set, Zhang Rui was originally behind again, but when he played a very wonderful round at 4-7, his morale was greatly increased, and he actually pulled back a city in an 11-7 reversal - this game Fan Siqi actually lost 8 goals in a row from the 7-3 lead, completely dropped the line, and lost a bit of a pity.
In the third set, the two sides played very fiercely, giving people a bit of a team practice, the score continued to rise alternately, and finally Fan Siqi seized the opportunity to win 13-11 and regained the initiative on the field again. However, in the fourth set, Zhang Rui quickly regained his momentum, and then caught up again at 11-7, and the two sides returned to the same running line, which was really difficult to score!
In the fifth set, Zhang Rui began to threaten, and then won 11-8 again, the big score 3-2 anti-super forced his teammates into a desperate situation, at this time Fan Siqi still played too conservative, many times with Zhang Rui backhand close to the stage, this is the advantage of raw rubber athletes, Yan can not be defeated? A change must be made!
In the sixth set, Fan Siqi began to adjust the line of returning the ball, while increasing the threat of forehand attack, and finally won 11-9, and the game was dragged into the decider. In the seventh set, Zhang Rui quickly took a 5-1 lead at the beginning, and was chased by Fan Siqi 6-6, and finally reversed 9-11, thus losing the whole game, which was a pity!
Today's duel does not look like an international event on the whole, more like the internal training of national table tennis, the two sides have not played too many dazzling techniques and tactics most of the time, mainly in the fight for hard power, may be encountered teammates unconsciously put the usual practice routine into it! Although there are losses and wins in the end, the two athletes who have not lost in the foreign war are good, cheers for you!
Congratulations to the national table tennis champions and runners-up in the women's singles, and look forward to everyone playing better in the next WTT Doha Star Competition: Come on!