On the evening of January 12, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Durban Challenge in South Africa ushered in a focus battle, and Sun Wen, the national table tennis dark horse who had beaten Zhang Benzhihe 4-0, appeared on the field and played against Nigerian athlete Aruna who had attacked Liang Jingkun 11-1, and Sun Wen lost 1-3 and was unfortunately eliminated.
Only six people signed up for the men's singles event in this competition, and the three have already lost the foreign battle (Xue Fei lost 0-3 to England's Javins, Liang Yancang lost 1-3 to France's Ronald), and has lost half of the people, which is really miserable!
Aruna is a "brother" figure in the African table tennis world, as early as the 2015 World Cup was able to fight with Zhang Jike, and later won the world champions Boll and Zhuang Zhiyuan in the Olympic Games, but later lost to Ma Long. In the final of the 2021 WTT World Cup, Aruna even eliminated the national table tennis world champion Liang Jingkun 11-1, and his strength was very good.
The highlight of Sun Wen's career came at the 2018 Japan Open, when he defeated Jang Moto Zhihe 4-0, and later won consecutive victories against Lee Sang-so and Liang Jingkun, but unfortunately he never performed again and did not have the opportunity to prove himself by playing against Jang Benjihe again.
At the start of this match, the two sides did not play very well at first, but then they still entered the stage of their favorite powerful arc ball stalemate, and as a result, Aruna was significantly more powerful, and immediately managed to win 12-10.
Interestingly, at the end of the first game, the referee made a joke, not only miscalculating the score as 11-11 (Sun Wen pulled an obvious wipe off the sideball, which should have been ruled invalid, but was mistakenly considered valid), but also thought that the intermission was called a timeout, which made Aruna and Sun Wen look confused, but fortunately changed it back later.
In the second game, the two still did not give in to each other, Sun Wen led 9-7 but was reversed by the opponent, but then he chased down to a 10-10 draw, but then Aruna countered very fiercely, and then 15-13 and then the next city, the big score 2-0 lead forced Sun Wen into a corner! In the third game, Sun Wen fell behind again and was forced to call a timeout to adjust, and the situation was very bad.
Back in the ring, Sun Wen saved the match point and won 13-11. However, in the fourth game, Aruna once again regained the initiative on the field, and finally sealed the victory 11-8, breaking through the Chinese team's defense again: it is a formidable opponent, worthy of our recognition!
At present, the situation of the national table tennis men's team is indeed very bad, so come on!