Beijing time on June 19 news, the 2022 ITTF WTT regular season challenge Zagreb station continues. In the men's singles quarterfinals, China's 19-year-old World Youth Championship champion Xiang Peng defeated Germany's Black Marikado Walther 3-1. In the second round, Xiang Peng eliminated the No. 3 seed and won the championship favorite Japan's Tomokazu Motojiwa 3-1.
At the WTT regular challenge in Zagreb, the Chinese men's table tennis did not send a main squad to participate, and Xiang Peng and Liang Guodong played well. In the second round, Xiang Peng eliminated his opponent 3-1 (11-7, 8-11, 11-9, 13-11) in a match against the No. 3 seed and the championship-winning Japanese team Zhang Benzhihe.
After eliminating Zhang Benzhihe 3-1, Xiang Peng welcomed Germany's Ricardo Walther in the quarter-finals. Ricciardo advanced to the quarter-finals with a 3-0 win over Romanian Rares SIPOS to advance to the quarter-finals. In this match, Ricciardo won the first set 11-8 and led 1-0. In the second set, Ricciardo won another set 11-7 to take a 2-0 lead and win match points.
In the third set, the opponent's state improved, Ricciardo locked up the victory 11-9, the aggregate score was 3-0 to advance, and the quarter-final ushered in Xiang Peng.
In the quarter-final between Xiang Peng and Ricciardo, its strength is obviously dominant. He started off very strongly and quickly took a 2-0 lead. Ricciardo then stubbornly counterattacked, countering Xiang Peng's opponent and winning the match 3-1 to advance to the round of 4.
In the first set with Ricciardo, Xiang Peng suppressed the opponent with an attack as soon as he came up, winning easily 11-4 and starting strongly 1-0. In the second set, Xiang Peng played more smoothly, while the opponent Cardo did not show any bright spots on both ends of the attack and defense, and Xiang Peng won 11-3, taking a 2-0 lead and winning match points.
In the third set, Ricciardo, who had no way back, fought back tenaciously, saving a match point 11-9 to make it 1-2. In the fourth set, Ricciardo still played very tenaciously, Xiang Peng did not drop the chain in the opponent's fight, scored two consecutive points after 12-12, won 14-12 thrillingly, and won 3-1 on aggregate to advance to the top 4.