In the doha regular challenge on the field, the young post-00s young national table tennis player Yuan Licen showed strong combat effectiveness, and in the case of encountering a number of world-renowned masters along the way, he still relied on a strong play, passed the pass, defeated Lin Yunru, Zhao Zihao, Qiu Dang and other masters, won the men's singles championship of the regular challenge, and got 400 ranking points for himself, while also allowing himself to ascend to the throne of the men's singles champion of the WTT sub-station for the first time, and greatly improved his world ranking by about 200 places. This performance of Yuan Licen also made him not like the original Zhou Qihao, who was identified as a civil war insider and a layman in the foreign war. After all, they can all defeat first-class masters in the domestic arena, Yuan Licen has also cut Down Ma Long and Liang Jingkun in the domestic league, so when the Doha Star Challenge begins, the fans also have great expectations for Yuan Licen, but I believe everyone also knows that the Star Challenge itself has a higher level of competition and the opponent's strength is stronger, so for Yuan Licen, every round is a test.
For example, in the second round of the men's singles tournament, Yuan Lichen ushered in the third singles from Germany, and in the recently concluded Grand Slam, he narrowly defeated Xu Xin 3-2, excluding our Olympic-level players from the list of eight finalists of the Grand Slam. For the majority of fans, the confrontation between Yuan Lichen and Francesca is also regarded as a real strong dialogue. Sure enough, in the first set of the game, Francesca was the same as when he played with Xu Xin, when the two sides formed a stalemate, he did not fall behind at all, and he was tall and large, the protective area was large, even if Yuan Lichen took the initiative to attack, and intentionally pulled the length and width of the two lines, but Francesca could basically catch it, but he could use his high-quality return ball to make Yuan Lichen make his own mistakes many times, although Yuan Lichen could bite with Francesca in the score, the two sides played from 3-3 to 6-7, 7-9, but at the end of the innings, Yuan Licen's return ball out of bounds still allowed him to lose the first set 9-11. The big score between the two sides came to 0-1.
In the second set of the game, the scores of the two sides were still glued, the two sides began to fight a 4-4 draw, into the middle of the game, the score of the two sides was still not opened, but Yuan Lichen had some adaptation to Francesca's ball path, in addition to seeking changes in the landing point, he also improved the competition between the two sides to the first three boards, slightly adjusted the rhythm of receiving the ball and returning the ball, which allowed Yuan Lichen to score in the second set to stabilize the situation, also through the end of the set, 11-9 to pull back a city, the two sides came to 1-1. In the third set of the game, Francesca once again exerted his strength, he was also the same as Yuan Licen this time, trying to take the lead in the first three boards, not giving Yuan Licen and him the opportunity to fight for control, coupled with Francesca's fault control or did a good job, the opening set to take a 6-3 lead, and maintain this lead until the end of the set, and finally with an 11-8 score and then another city, thus taking a 2-1 lead in the big score. Yuan Licen was on the verge of danger.
In the fourth set of the game, Yuan Licen wanted to take the initiative to exert force in the case of falling behind in the score, but this force had a higher error rate in front of the opponent's high-quality return ball, and the loss of points was also very fast, and the two sides played a 3-7 situation shortly after the start, yuan Licen was completely at a disadvantage. Watching Francesca pull the score to 10-3, already got the match point. Although Yuan Licen called a timeout at this time, but it was too late, such a suspension timing also clearly proved that Yuan Lichen played a little impatient on the field, not calm enough, he chased 1 point after the suspension returned, and Was given another point by Francesca, thus winning the fourth set with an 11-3 score. In this way, Yuan Lichen lost the entire match by a large score of 1-3, missing the men's singles round of 16 in this Star Challenge (the scores of the two sides in four sets were: 11-9, 9-11, 11-8 and 11-4). I have to say that in front of the world's first-line and quasi-first-line players, Yuan Licen's game control ability is still lacking, and the stability of the attack also needs to be improved. In order to make achievements in the world arena, Yuan Lichen also has to have a better performance in the hard battle.