WTT Xinxiang Championship officially started, this event is Liu Guoliang's first international competition held in his hometown after being re-elected as chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, and the first performance of national table tennis is related to the face of national table tennis and Lao Liu. On the first match day, the first appearance of National Table Tennis was 18-year-old young player Lin Shidong, and this match attracted many fans to cheer on the scene.
Lin Shidong has been in good shape recently, WTT Star Challenge Goa and Liang Jingkun will meet in the men's singles final, and won the third place in the men's singles in the second Durban World Table Tennis Championships. Lin Shidong is ranked 15th in the world, and replaced Lin Gaoyuan to obtain the P card of Xinxiang and Macau, becoming the rising star of National Pingping, and everyone is watching his next performance.
In the first round of the men's singles tournament in Xinxiang, Lin Shidong faced Sweden's Carlsen, who was ranked 21st in the world, and the two had just met in the first round of this year's Singapore Grand Slam, and Lin Shidong won 3-1. However, the national table tennis participates at home, the first game is often more psychological pressure, many players often have the problem of slow state entry, this national table tennis first battle in Liu Guoliang's hometown is even more concerned, Lin Shidong will naturally be affected by some.
Wang Hao, the coach of the national table tennis men's team, paid close attention to this match, and he personally directed Lin Shidong's men's singles 1/16 final on the spot. And the game process is indeed exciting, Lin Shidong three games two of the three games are reversed when the opponent leads 10-7, especially in the third game, Lin Shidong did not relax his mind under extremely unfavorable circumstances, stubbornly chased the score back, and finally won the opponent 3-0, the score of the three games was 12-10, 11-8, 12-10, advancing to the round of 16 in advance.
In the women's singles 1/16 final, the first to play in the national table tennis women's team was Wang Manyu, and she faced the African Cup of Nations champion Meshef from Egypt, which can be said to be the first sister of Africa. Recently, Wang Manyu's condition has declined due to injury, and this comeback to participate, Ma Lin does not dare to take it lightly and personally supervise the battle. However, the opponent played very actively, and actually won the first game first, which made Ma Lin also startled, and her expression was a little overwhelmed.
Entering the second game, Wang Manyu still can't adapt to the opponent's style of play, the score of the two sides is very anxious, Ma Lin is anxious to roll her eyes, it seems that she is still affected by injuries, although Wang Manyu won two consecutive games, but the opponent is really in good condition, Li Falcon and the coaching staff are frowning and anxious, so that the fans are also very worried.
When it came to the tiebreaker, judging from Ma Lin's expression, he was almost suffocated, the African sister was too fierce, and finally Wang Manyu still relied on the lucky ball to get the match point, broke the opponent's confidence, and finally won 3-2, the fans were relieved and shouted, fierce as Wang Manyu almost swept a round, this game process is really scary!