The Oman Challenge turned to the main round of competition, and a number of national table tennis players began to appear in this round of competition, especially Chen Xingtong, Zhou Qihao, Qian Tianyi, who were eagerly concerned by fans. The reason why the three of them attracted more attention from fans is because Chen Xingtong and Qian Tianyi need to compete for a place in the world table tennis team competition by winning the championship in this competition, and as Zhou Qihao, the reason why he also received attention was because among the players who participated in the fifth place of the world table tennis championship in China, they were all ranked between 11th and 50th in the world, but the deadline for this ranking was August 23. And Zhou Qihao has surpassed one of the contestants Zhao Zihao in the world ranking through the outstanding performance of the previous stage, so that his world ranking has been raised to within the top 50, but because the time period for this promotion to the top 50 rankings occurred after the deadline for the world table tennis quota competition, Zhou Qihao regretted missing this opportunity to participate in internal competition, so fans are also full of expectations for whether he can still enter this core layer and re-participate in the competition through his own efforts in the future.
Everyone wants to see the performance of Chen Xingtong and Zhou Qihao, including Qian Tianyi, and also wants to know what kind of answer they can give us. Only this time Zhou Qihao is like many times, when everyone is disappointed in him, he often brings us confidence, but when everyone starts to expect him and hope that he will have a good performance, he once again has a situation of falling off the chain at a critical moment. Because in the 1/32 final of oman, he faced his old opponent, Zhuang Zhiyuan from Chinese Taipei, and lost to his opponent in five sets with a score of 2-3, thus directly missing the second round of the main match. As the highest-ranked player in the national table tennis team, he suffered a first-round exit, which naturally highlights Zhou Qihao's lack of stability in the world arena, lack of hard power, and many deficiencies in the mentality of the game.
And Chen Xingtong, as one of the former World Cup champions, in fact, like Zhou Qihao, in the first round of competition, also encountered a great promotion problem, in the face of the player from India Akula's telephoto style of play, as well as the on-field attack in the fight style of play, Chen Xingtong did face a lot of promotion pressure, in addition to the first set Chen Xingtong was easy to win, from the second set to the fourth set, chen Xingtong also lost 11-13 in the second set, and the third and fourth sets were always tight. However, Chen Xingtong still showed the hard strength of a world's top master through self-adjustment, in terms of this ability to get rid of the key points at the end of the game and after encountering special circumstances on the field, and finally succeeded in winning the game, thus eliminating the opponent with a 3-1 overall score, and also advancing to the second round of the game (four scores: 11-4, 11-13, 11-9 and 11-8).
It can be seen that for Zhou Qihao, his ability to fight a hard battle is indeed lacking. For Chen Xingtong, winning the thrilling battle in the hard battle is actually more helpful for her to gradually adjust her state in the back and better get rid of psychological pressure, so as to win a team place in the World Table Tennis Championships. Qian Tianyi also debuted after Chen Xingtong, facing the Portuguese player Yang Xiaoxin, who once and Chen Meng had wrenched his wrist and once made Chen Meng break out in a cold sweat, Qian Tianyi still relatively easily won 3-0 and locked in a women's singles round of 32. We also look forward to the good play of Chen Xingtong and Qian Tianyi. I believe that they can learn to enjoy the game and constantly break through themselves and achieve more victories in the face of good times and difficult situations. And Zhou Qihao's one-round trip undoubtedly made him one step away from the main layer of national table tennis. In this way, it just did not qualify for the final place competition of the World Table Tennis Championships team competition, which is also due to the strength of Zhou Qihao.