On July 20, 2022, Beijing time, the ITTF WTT Regional Competition in Budapest continued. The Chinese table tennis team did not choose the veteran to go out this time, but gave more opportunities to young players. But the bad news came one after another. In the first round of the men's singles main tournament, former world champion Yu Ziyang and South Korea's Huang Minxia fought for 6 rounds, and finally suffered a 2-4 elimination. Embarrassingly, in the game, Yu Ziyang once bombarded the opponent 11-0, but in the last two sets, there was a collapse and finally encountered a round of travel, which was very regrettable.
Looking back at this game, the two sides fought fiercely at the beginning of the game, and the score was very sticky, and the two sides played two 13-15 scores in the first two sets, which is very rare in the history of table tennis, but it is a pity that the final winners are All Korean players, Yu Ziyang is 0-2 behind and in trouble. Yu Ziyang took the initiative to deliver mistakes on key balls many times, and also let him lose these two key sets.
However, after that, Yu Ziyang suddenly found his form, did not give the Korean player any chance in the third set, and directly played an 11-0 score to sweep the opponent. Yu Ziyang, who gained confidence, became more and more courageous, taking a big lead in the fourth set. However, Huang Minxia's psychological quality is very good, he fought back, constantly chasing points, although he lost in the fourth set, but he also entangled the score to the end, and finally the score was 10-12.
Although the two sides fought to 2-2 in the big score, it was clear that the South Koreans who were frantically chasing points in the fourth set were better in confidence and form, and after that he almost did not give Yu Ziyang any chance, losing two straight sets 11-7 and 11-8, easily defeating the Chinese players, and the final score was also fixed at 4-2. Former world champion "upset" stopped in the first round. South Korea's players advanced to the next round.
In fact, Yu Ziyang, who was born in 1998, once had a very glorious past, defeating Japan's mizutani Hayabusa in 2014 to win the title of open champion. This was also the youngest open champion in the world at that time, and then in 2018, he pushed the supernova Wang Chuqin and Liang Jingkun to be selected for the World Cup men's team list, which can be said to be a spring breeze. However, after that, Yu Ziyang began to experience a decline in performance, losing all the way in both internal and external wars, and gradually let him fall out of the ranks of the main force.
Since then, although Yu Ziyang has occasionally had a bright performance, his performance is very unstable, and he has gradually been replaced by a younger wave of players. With the rise of Wang Chuqin, it is even more difficult to have the status of Yu Ziyang in the national team, in recent years, it can be said that he is even difficult to obtain the position of rotating substitutes, as if he has become invisible to everyone. This time, he also hoped to participate in the regroupment, but it was a pity that he was eliminated by his opponent in the first round, and after this event, it was almost impossible for him to return to the top.
On the other hand, the opponent Huang Minxia, in terms of age and Yu Ziyang is not too much difference, has been 23 years old is not a young player, and the world ranking is only 266, before it can be said that fans have hardly heard the name of this person, in terms of performance, even the world-class top 8 has not entered, like a "passerby" level player. Yu Ziyang had never even fought such an opponent, and it was obvious that something was unreasonable.
However, from the perspective of the 11-0 single innings, in fact, Yu Ziyang is far above the opponent in terms of both technology and ability, but these years of experience have made it difficult for him to re-establish enough confidence, and he also hopes that the veteran can find his self from four years ago in the next game and stand up again, after all, there is no shortage of players in the international table tennis world, hoping that he can once again contribute to Chinese table tennis.