The WTT Doha Star Challenge began a singles competition for the round of 16, and in the first big game, The Japanese teenager Zhang Benmeihe, who has defeated four Chinese players in three consecutive matches, stopped moving forward, and it was still a Chinese who beat her, she was the 39-year-old Han Ying, a Chinese celebrity who represented the German women's team, who eliminated Zhang Benmeihe 3-1 (10-12/12-10/11-3/11-6) when she lost a set first. Zhang Benmeihe's off-court coach in this game was her mother Zhang Ling, who was a member of Deng Yaping's Chinese women's team.
Zhang Benmeihe in the previous Doha regional tournament qualifier Lian Ke Qin Yuxuan and Qi Fei, last week's Doha Challenge qualifiers narrowly defeated the national table tennis youngster ZhongGeman, the qualification of the star tournament was 3-0 swept Chen Yi, can beat 4 national table tennis peers also let the outside world give more attention. This competition for the top 16 women's singles places is actually a dialogue between two generations, 13-year-old Zhang Benmei and 39-year-old Han Ying, who challenged German veterans, Han Ying and Zhang Benmeihe's mother Zhang Ling should be a player of the times.
In the first set, Zhang Benmeihe played proactively, the rhythm of pulling the ball on the field changed more, a moment of sudden acceleration, a moment of slow rubbing, Han Ying's cutting style of play was basically unstable in Zhang Benmeihe's various changes, the score was quickly pulled open to 10-5, Zhang Benmei, who held 5 innings, had a fluke mentality at this time, and was beaten 10-10 by Han Ying's continuous rescue of the innings, Zhang Benmeihe was not flustered at this time but scored 2 points in a row to win the game. From the perspective of the first game, Zhang Benmeihe although the 13-year-old still has a lot of room to improve in the power of the arc, but her strategy of cutting the ball can play the strengths and avoid the weaknesses, using the landing point and rhythm to control the opponent's score.
In the second set, Han Ying began to strengthen the change of the rotation and landing point of the chipping ball, and strived to bring certain difficulties to Zhang Benmeihe's pulling ball in the chipping defense, Han Ying adapted to Zhang Benmeihe's pulling strength, and once achieved a 5-1 lead, Zhang Benmeihe served and rushed in the mid-game stage and suddenly killed the board Despite chasing points, after the battle to 10-10, Han Ying used Zhang Benmeihe's two pull-ball mistakes 12-10 to win the same score to win a set.
In the 3rd set, Han Ying's advantage in cutting the ball became more and more obvious, she paid attention to cutting the ball to the bottom line, and controlled Zhang Benmeihe with an extremely long line landing point, resulting in Zhang Benmei and pulling the ball was not good, with Zhang Benmeihe's mistakes, Han Ying won 11-3 very easily. In the 4th set, Zhang Benmeihe called a timeout in the case of 1-3 behind, mother Zhang Ling told her daughter to continue to adhere to the rhythm change, can not play the position battle, hit the end of the game Zhang Benmeihe's strength shortcomings again, basically can not penetrate Han Ying, and no matter how to change the rhythm is also within Han Ying's prejudgment, the score was finally fixed at 11-6, Han Ying reversed to advance to the next round.
Zhang Benmei once burst into tears after the defeat, after all, her mother Zhang Ling participated in the 1995 World Table Tennis Championships and was also a former national player, with the guidance and comfort of her mother, I believe that her future growth will be faster.