In the second leg of the Doha Challenge, the youngster Yuan Lichen, who successfully stood on the podium of the championship, came to the doha Star Challenge and was eliminated in front of the German star challenge, Francesca, who lost 1-3 and finally missed the round of 16. However, also facing Francesca, another national table tennis star, Zhou Qihao, who has appeared many times in some world competitions, used a relatively stable performance to defeat Francesca with the same 3-1 score to get a men's singles top 8 place in the Doha Star Tournament. He also used his excellent performance to prove that his ability to fight foreign wars has been improved in actual combat. Zhou Qihao's teammate Xue Fei also showed a good competitive state when facing the American player Karnak, winning 3-0 against the opponent and also getting a men's singles top 8 place.
From a certain point of view, Zhou Qihao's growth has also brought us some inspiration. Including for a young general like Yuan Licen, there is also a certain driving role. Because Zhou Qihao, like Yuan Licen, has achieved outstanding results in domestic competitions. Yuan Licen has the experience of defeating Ma Long and Liang Jingkun, and Zhou Qihao once passed Liang Jingkun, Ma Long and Fan Zhendong in last year's World Table Tennis Championships Direct Pass, and won a valuable singles seat in the Fearsome World Table Tennis Championships. It can be seen that he still has a strong competitive ability in the domestic arena. It's just a pity that after getting the opportunity to participate in the World Series, Zhou Qihao's performance is still compared with several of his star teammates, there is a certain gap. This also made some fans give him a title of "civil war insider, foreign war layman".
However, it is obvious that the pain of losing the game, as well as the reality of the performance gap between the international arena and the domestic arena, while putting pressure on Zhou Qihao, he has also been trying to overcome difficulties and change his position, which is also a kind of progress for him, and everything that was once was not in vain. That is to say, for the national table tennis team, winning is a kind of wealth, and losing is not a burden. It will also bring some positive changes to the players, which will allow everyone to learn lessons in the defeat and further improve the ability to fight abroad. For example, zhou Qihao now, when he faced Francesca, who had just defeated teammate Yuan Lichen, won a 3-1 victory.
Although in the case of Zhou Qihao 11-9 ahead of the city, Francesca also pulled back a city with an 11-8 score. But then Zhou Qihao won two consecutive sets 16-14, 11-6 to finally seal the victory. Especially in the third set of the two sides, the score began to bite in the middle of the game, and the two sides played all the way to a high score of 16-14, and Zhou Qihao still reflected the progress in the key points. This is the help brought to him by competing with the main players of the national table tennis frontline to compete in various competitions. Unknowingly, he has achieved an increase in momentum and game temperament.
It is precisely because the majority of fans know Zhou Qihao better, so when everyone sees his changes and progress, they are still very happy for him. Fans and friends also congratulated Zhou Qihao on his successful promotion to the quarterfinals and cheered him on. While reminding him to guard against arrogance and impatience, step by step, I hope he can remember the old saying called - persistence is victory. No matter how far Zhou Qihao can go, we look forward to his promotion and progress brought by those defeats in the past, which will be further reflected in the doha star game. And let's look forward to his performance in the next round. Zhou Qihao's opponent in the next round will be Aruna, a brother from Africa, who also eliminated the two major players of national table tennis, Liu Dingshuo and Zhao Zihao, to advance to the top 8. I believe that the game between the two sides will be full of highlights. Let's look forward to it together.