In the early morning of June 25, Beijing time, the national table tennis players who were participating in the WTT regional competition in Slovenia came bad news - the women's doubles final victory hope Kuman / Chen Yi lost 4 sets, lost 1-3 to the multinational combination Matrova (Czech Republic) / Barazova (Slovakia), only stopped in the quarterfinals, and did not even reach the semifinals.
Prior to this, the national table tennis group ZhongGeman / Qin Yuxuan lost 0-3 to Lee Shi-wen / Yin Xiaobin of the South Korean team, Xu Yi / Han Fei'er lost 2-3 to the Indian combination Ofaka / Prati, and now Kuman / Chen Yi also broke the sand, and they did not win the championship in the last stop, 1-3 lost to the Japanese combination Ito Mimako / Hayata Hina, it seems that it is indeed insufficient strength, still need to work hard!
Ku Man and Chen Yi are both national table tennis hope stars born in 2004, the former has defeated Chen Meng, Chen Xing and other world champions, and is the most outstanding athlete of the same age in the team; The latter is in line with Wang Manyu in height and playing style, so it is also called "Little Wang Manyu" in the team by some fans, but there is more than enough defense, insufficient attack, and relatively inferior strength.
As mentioned earlier, Kuman/ Chen Yi only recently lost to the Japanese combination of Ito Mimachi / Hina Hayata at the WTT Croatia tournament, and did not win the championship, but the opponent was after all the women's doubles silver medalist of the two consecutive World Table Tennis Championships, and the strength was by no means comparable to Thatmarkova/Barazova, but everyone was waiting for the same loss.
After the start of the game, the national table tennis combination made a bad start, losing the first set 7-11, which seemed to be somewhat uncomfortable with the ball path of European local female table tennis players. However, in the second set, Kuman/Chen Yi quickly found the initiative on the field and pulled back Yicheng 11-6, and the two sides returned to the same running line.
In the third set, Matrova/Barazova stood firm and once again took the lead, then won 11-7, and the big score of 2-1 forced Kuman/Chen Yi into a desperate situation. In the fourth set, the two sides fought fiercely, and in the end, the national table tennis combination still lost 11-13, and did not have the opportunity to advance to the semi-finals and continue to attack the championship.
How to say it, if in terms of world rankings, Matrova / Barazova is the number one seed in the women's doubles event this time, it is indeed higher than Kuman / Chen Yi, but if you take it apart to see their personal strength, they do not have any advantage over the national table tennis players, but they participate in more competitions, so the more points they naturally have.
Therefore, the failure of Kuman / Chen Yi on the one hand is because the cooperation is not tacit enough, resulting in two athletes with good singles level "1+1<2" after forming doubles, failing to play their full advantages, and on the other hand, we can also see that European players do have their own unique technical and tactical systems, and young people may not be adaptable if they play less in foreign wars and have little contact with them.
Finally, I still expect the young players to seriously sum up the lessons of the loss and strive to perform better next time: come on, young people!