Beijing time on March 28, 2022 news, the current has reached the end of March. Following the successful conclusion of the WTT Grand Slam event, the WTT Star Challenge Doha leg kicked off immediately after. This time Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng and other main forces did not participate, the national table tennis coaching team sent Yuan Licen, Xue Fei, Qian Tianyi, Qi Fei and other young and new talents to accept the experience of international competitions. With the continuous advancement of the schedule, the singles round began, but in the just-concluded game, the national table tennis 00 after the tough will lose to the German table tennis star, suffered the first defeat in the main tournament, and did not qualify.
After the national table tennis 00, the 4 consecutive wins were ended! 4-11 suffered the first defeat in the main match, and the japanese table tennis double dark horse is rising! In the men's singles 1/16 final, national table tennis player Yuan Licen and German table tennis player Francesca met. Yuan Licen is currently ranked 264th in the world, has twice defeated the national table tennis captain Ma Long in the team competition, and in the recent WTT regular challenge doha station, Yuan Lichen played a remarkable 9 consecutive wins, won the men's singles championship in one fell swoop, the performance is more eye-catching. Now that he is playing the Star Challenge, Yuan Lichen still starts from the qualifiers, but he is in good shape and is looking forward to it. Francesca's side is strong, as the third position of the German table tennis men's team, he not only has a strong ability to hold each other, but also has a high quality and rapid backhand, and has defeated the veteran Xu Xin in previous Grand Slam tournaments. In this context, a fierce battle is inevitable.
In this game, although the paper strength Yuan Licen does not have an advantage, but fortunately he is young and has momentum, and the first three boards inherit the strong characteristics of the national table tennis tradition, so there is a certain suspense of the game. In the first set, Francesca attacked fiercely, Yuan Lichen's side was somewhat uncomfortable, in the passive rhythm of chasing points, and then Francesca took the next set 11-9. In the second set, Yuan Licen summed up the experience of the first set, through the short ball in the stage, try to control the rhythm of the opponent, choose to break through from the middle position continuously, so that the strategy played a certain effect. Francesca struggled to chase the points, but Yuan Lichen grasped the key points and completed the equalizer at 11-9.
In the third set, Francesca improved the quality of the single board, and the limited ability of the COSCO platform was played out, Yuan Lichen was difficult to win, and then Francesca won again 11-8. In the fourth set, Francesca played with momentum, took the rhythm of the game properly, and locked in the victory 11-4, thus defeating Yuan Lichen 3-1 to advance to the round of 16. Yuan Licen started all the way from the qualifiers, with a four-game winning streak, but it was not surprising that he suffered such a strong foreign opponent in the first round of the main tournament. It is in this process that young players continue to pound and complete the transformation.
On the women's singles side, the two members of the national table tennis women's team Tiger will also suffer defeats: WTT regular challenge doha women's singles champion Fan Siqi was reversed 3-2 by Japanese table tennis player Miyu Kato in a 2-0 favorable situation. Similarly, Liu Weishan also suffered a reversal from Japanese table tennis player Miyu Nagasaki and lost 2-3. It should be said that the strength of Fan Siqi and Liu Weishan is there, and it is believed that there will be a certain improvement in the follow-up to strengthen the understanding and control of the game. And the Japanese table tennis is still adhering to the "off-generation training plan", Nagasaki Miyu and Kihara Miyu have partnered with the seafood sister Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu combination to compete, Kato Miyu has also beaten Chen Meng, so the national table tennis coaching team still needs to pay attention to our strong opponents in the new cycle, strengthen targeted training to prepare for subsequent confrontations. Come on!