On March 29, 2022, the table tennis Doha star game entered a white-hot stage, the women's singles field broke out of the cold, the top seed Du Kaixuan lost to South Korea's rising star Zhu Jiaxi, the opponent did not even have a world ranking, which was a big surprise, the men's singles national table tennis star Liu Dingshuo was eliminated, fought hard for five sets, and finally lost to an African brother Aruna.
Liu Dingshuo won the men's singles championship at last year's National Games, which attracted the attention of outside fans, in fact, Liu Dingshuo has long played a result, won the men's singles championship at the World Youth Championship, and the recent coaching team has also been creating opportunities, hoping that he will go to the international arena for training to enhance his comprehensive strength, but from Oman to the Doha Challenge, Liu Dingshuo's overall performance is average, and he also loses foreign wars.
Just this year Liu Dingshuo and Aruna had a fight, when Liu Dingshuo won 3-0 over Aruna, and now the two meet again, the victory or defeat still depends on the impromptu play, Liu Dingshuo although the world ranking 131st, but it is not in line with his strength, much higher than the same level of players, but Aruna competition experienced, while more familiar with the situation of the national table tennis players, this is a match of equal strength.
In the first set, Aruna stepped up the offensive, through continuous forehand attack, successfully suppressed Liu Dingshuo's backhand, Liu Dingshuo began to be a little slow and hot, failed to grasp the initiative of the game, Aruna took an 8-4 lead, and soon blasted out 11-6 to take the lead, in the second set Aruna took advantage of the situation to chase, opened the point difference to 7-4, the national table tennis off-court guidance is Liu Heng, he saw that the situation was not good, directly to Liu Dingshuo to call a timeout.
Usually the situation of the national table tennis coach is the lead is chased points, or the key round behind called suspension, Liu Dingshuo 4-7 behind the use of suspension, mainly Liu Heng guidance to see his rhythm is not right, there is a collapse situation, it is really necessary to slow down the adjustment of mentality, after returning Liu Dingshuo chased to 8-9, Aruna called a timeout, after returning Liu Dingshuo scored 3 points in a row, with the advantage of the first three boards, to equalize the score at 11-9.
In the third set, the two sides were locked in a battle, the score alternately rose, Aruna fell behind 7-9, scored 3 consecutive points 10-9 innings, Liu Dingshuo scored 3 consecutive points to win another set of 12-10, in the fourth set both sides scored 9 points, Aruna scored 2 points to win 11-9, aruna scored 3 points in a row to win 3 points, to take a 6-3 lead, Liu Dingshuo chased 8 draws, Aruna scored 3 points to end the game 11-8, 3-2 narrowly beat Liu Dingshuo.
At the same time, the competition was played at the same time, Hong Kong, China's famous Du Kaixuan was cold out, Du Kaixuan ranked 8th in the world, is the number one seed in the women's singles, the second round against the South Korean rising star Zhu Jiaxi, who is 20 years old and has no world ranking, just came out to participate in the competition this year, Zhu Jiaxi lost the first set 6-11, won three consecutive sets 11-9, 11-8, 11-3, and finally eliminated Du Kaixuan 3-1 and advanced to the women's singles round of 16.