On July 13, Beijing time, the ITTF Star Challenge is underway. What is underway is the first round of the singles competition, with national table tennis player Yuan Licen facing France's Simon. Simon is very strong, and has defeated the National Table Tennis Olympic champion Xu Xin at the World Table Tennis Championships. Yuan Licen is also the leader of the new generation of national table tennis men's singles, the first game, the two sides played very fiercely, the score alternately rose, after 11 draws, Yuan Licen won a round 13:11 thrilling first.
In the second set, Simon stepped up his active attack and controlled the drop point and strength better, Simon pulled back a set 11:9, and the two sides drew 1:1. In the third set, Yuan Lichen adjusted his state and started well, but in terms of the stalemate link, Simon had a clear advantage, and Simon won another city 11:9, leading 2:1. In the fourth set, Simon took advantage of the victory to chase, 11:8 to lock the win, the total score of 3:1 reverse victory over the national table tennis young player Yuan Lichen.
In another men's singles competition, national table tennis world champion Lin Gaoyuan appeared against Italy's Execi. In the first set, Lin Gaoyuan won the first set 11:5. Lin Gaoyuan is very fast, and there are many changes in the landing point. In the second set, the Italian player completely collapsed, the mistakes were repeated, Lin Gaoyuan was merciless, there was no clean sheet opponent, 11:1 easily locked the win, the big score 2:0 lead.
In the third set, Lin Gaoyuan was a drum, locked up the win at 11:7, fell three straight sets, and kept a clean sheet on aggregate 3:0 to easily advance to the men's singles round of 32. In this open tournament, 7 men's singles of national table tennis registered to participate, Liu Dingshuo qualified for the tournament was eliminated, Yuan Licen was playing a round of travel, and there are currently Lin Gaoyuan, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Xiang Peng and other five people to advance, and the national table tennis men's singles two were eliminated.
In other arenas, the national table tennis mixed doubles Wang Manyu Wang Chuqin fought in the first round of five sets, with a thrilling victory over Hong Kong's Huang Zhenting Du Kaixuan on aggregate to advance to the quarterfinals. In the decider, the two won 14:12. Ito Mimachi mixed doubles round, Ito partner Utada Yukiya lost 2:3 on aggregate to Zhang Benzhi and Hayata Hina. Francesca Solja defeated He Junjie and Li Haoqing 3:1 on aggregate to advance to the quarterfinals.