On the afternoon of February 18, Beijing time, the National Table Tennis 2023 World Table Tennis Championships Direct Tournament ushered in a focus showdown, and the current precarious status of the men's team world champion Lin Gaoyuan appeared against the direct shooting star Zhao Zihao, and Lin Gaoyuan won with a large advantage 3-0 sweep and won his own opener victory in this competition.
At present, Lin Gaoyuan's situation in the team is already very unoptimistic, and the direct competition has become an important opportunity for him to turn around: no matter what the future development is, it is imperative to ensure that he can participate in the World Table Tennis Championships.
Lin Gaoyuan is an athlete who has been in the main lineup of the national table tennis men's team for many years since 2017, but his position has not been very solid, especially he has dropped the chain in foreign battles many times and has been criticized by many fans, and his status in the hearts of the coaching staff has also continued to decline, and he almost missed the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships last year, and this year he lost the men's singles team of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships Qualifiers, and the situation is not good.
This time, Takato has a chance to turn around, and before that, he had won two straight races (2017, 2022), so many people also want to see if he can break through the civil war again.
After the battle with Zhao Zihao began, Lin Gaoyuan used his lightness of play and left-handed athlete's line advantage to suppress his opponent in the first game, and immediately won 11-9. However, even at a disadvantage, we can see that Zhao Zihao fought very hard and played the fierce side of the straight shooting athlete, and this ball Lin Gaoyuan is destined to face challenges.
Sure enough, the two sides fought more fiercely in the second game, and they fought until after 10 draws, but the result was that Lin Gaoyuan was better and won again 12-10, and the big score was 2-0 leading Zhao Zihao into a corner.
After losing two consecutive games, Zhao Zihao's mentality will inevitably be affected, and Lin Gaoyuan is getting more and more courageous, and in the third game did not give his opponent another chance to play key balls, and finally ended the battle 11-5, sweeping his teammates 3-0 and successfully winning his first victory.
According to the group, Lin Gaoyuan will face the blockade of two other famous players next, one is Xue Fei, who is the same as Zhao Zihao, and the other is another world champion main Liang Jingkun - relatively speaking, Liang Jingkun must be more difficult to deal with, the competition in this group is indeed very fierce, so can Lin Gaoyuan beat the siege?
Let's sit back and wait for the latest battle to begin!