On the morning of September 17, the table tennis competition of the National Games officially kicked off, and in the first round of the men's team group matchup, the two world champions Xu Xin (Shanghai) and Yu Ziyang (Shandong) met in a narrow road to start a duel.
Interestingly, Yu Ziyang is a two-sided anti-glue, left-handed athlete, which is easily reminiscent of Xu Xin's nemesis, the famous Japanese hayabusa Mizutani. Although he lost to Mizutani Hayabusa twice in the Olympic Games, this time facing Yu Ziyang, who also played the same way, Xu Xin, although he fell behind 0-2, staged a good reversal of 3 consecutive sets, and finally won the top spot for the Shanghai team, scoring 1 first: congratulations to him!
Xu Xin was born in 1990, Yu Ziyang was born in 1998, both are left-handed playing athletes, but the former is a straight shot, the latter is a horizontal shot, so the technical characteristics are still very different.
From a technical point of view, Xu Xin is more adept at playing with each other and pulling, sharp forehand; and Yu Ziyang's speed is fast, and his playing style is also more violent, although the overall strength may be slightly inferior to Xu Xin, but he is younger after all, and it is entirely possible to impact the veteran success under the team five-game three-win system, so this battle has a certain suspense.
After the game began, the two sides began a big opening and closing confrontation in the first set, without too much testing, and as a result, Xu Xin has been suppressed by the other side, and his own mistakes are more, and finally lost 9-11. In the second set, Xu Xin started very unfavorably, came up 1-5 behind, and after struggling to chase points, he lost a 9-11, and the big score was 0-2 behind and was forced into a desperate situation!
In the third set, Xu Xin still failed to enter the state, and came up behind the score, and successfully reversed and got the set point after requesting a timeout, yu Ziyang fell into passivity. At the critical moment, Xu Xin actually lost points continuously, almost being reversed by the other side, but fortunately, he still stabilized his position in the back, and finally pulled back a city 12-10, avoiding the fate of being swept by the other side.
In the fourth set, Xu Xin began to recover his form and won 11-7, successfully dragging the match into the decider. In the fifth game of the big battle, Yu Ziyang's mentality completely collapsed, the result came up 1-7 behind, and finally lost the whole game 4-11, losing 3 consecutive sets by Xu Xin: What a pity!
Today's game, Yu Ziyang's front play is really good, but once Xu Xin eased up, the strength gap between the two immediately appeared - although at the beginning some did not adapt to the rhythm of the field, but Xu Xin is worthy of being a top player who has been in the battlefield for a long time, and this reversal also shows his excellent psychological quality, which is really good!
After all, it is the first game of the National Games, and it is normal for athletes to be uncomfortable, and I look forward to everyone's performance later on to be more exciting: come on!