In the just-concluded Doha Star Challenge Mixed Doubles Championship Battle, the combination of Yuan Jianan and Lebison from France, facing the challenge of old partners Lin Yunru and Zheng Yijing from Taipei, performed very smoothly in the three sets, and also showed the control of the veteran in the key points of each set, and when encountering difficulties on the field, the forward brain was particularly sober, and the timing of the time of the timeout was also just right, and finally they defeated the Chinese Taipei combination Lin Yunru and Zheng Yijing with a score of 3-0. He also won the mixed doubles title of the Doha Star Challenge, with scores of 11-8, 14-12 and 12-10 in three sets. Although the first set was only two or three points won, and the French combination only won a total of 7 points in the three sets, these 7 points also reflected some differences in the response of the two sides to the game.
From a certain point of view, although Zheng Yijing is now also a 30-year-old veteran, but obviously in the competition with Yuan Jianan, her ability to grasp some of the opportunity balls, especially the ability to attack in the long line, is still a little weak, and Lin Yunru's main problem in the game is the lack of killing boards, the attack is a bit decent, and in the first three boards, he often does not dare to take the lead, so he often passively enters the state of stalemate, and his style of play is also difficult for himself and his partner to have the opportunity to take the initiative to score. Basically, when the two sides form a standoff, it is often the French combination that uses the advantage of higher veneer quality to get key points on the field. Although in this star challenge, the national table tennis team did not send the strongest team to participate in the mixed doubles field, and the combination of Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, including the combination of veterans Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin, did not appear on the field of this competition, but we judged from the opponent's confrontation situation, Yuan Jiannan and Lebison's ability to play hard battles is getting stronger and stronger, and the two people's game mentality is also very stable, plus the current game often adopts a five-game best-of-three system, which also increases some opportunities for upsetting and defeating the strong with the weak.
Another point is that France participated as the host of the Paris Olympic Games, so Lebison and Yuan Jiannan will definitely have a stronger desire to make a breakthrough in the mixed doubles field and strive to win the Olympic championship at home, which also makes it more difficult for the national table tennis to win the Olympic mixed doubles championship for the first time in history. After all, in the field of the Tokyo Olympic Games, when the old partners of national table tennis Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen wanted to create history and win the first mixed doubles gold medal in the history of the Olympic Games, it was under the premise that they could always defeat all the masters in normal times, and in the final Olympic championship battle, they lost to the host players, and they were reversed by their opponents Ito Andumasa and Mizutani Hayabusa 4-3. This pair of French players is now more and more advanced in the world rankings, and their performance in various competitions is becoming more and more stable, and they can even easily defeat Zheng Yijing and Lin Yunru, the old partner who can often bring special competitive pressure to the main combination of national table tennis, which also fully shows that the difficulty of national table tennis to compete for the Olympic mixed doubles championship has been greater than we originally planned.
Now it seems that with the retirement of Mizutani Hayabusa and ito's announcement that he will no longer participate in mixed doubles events, the strong combination of Mizutani Hayabusa and Ito does not exist before, but other world-class combinations are still challenging the national table tennis in a rapidly progressive way. There are also more and more combinations with the competitive strength of Olympic champions. Coupled with the fact that there are particularly good combinations among the hosts, Yuan Jiannan even defeated Ito Mimako in the previous stage of individual singles matches, and Lebison's singles strength is also relatively good. Therefore, after this Doha Star Challenge, we still have a cautious optimism about winning the Olympic mixed doubles championship, and while full of confidence, we must also make full preparations for difficulties. It is also believed that the national table tennis coaching team will carry out targeted training according to the performance of the French players this time to increase the thickness of the national table tennis lineup in the mixed doubles field and the ability to play difficult battles. Let's cheer together for the mixed doubles players of national table tennis.