On April 27, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Thailand star tournament ushered in a focus battle within the national table tennis team, two young players who made great achievements in foreign battles - Xu Yingbin (eliminated Zhang Benzhihe) and Yuan Licen (eliminated An Jaehyun) met in a narrow way to compete for a ticket to advance to the quarterfinals of men's singles, but Xu Yingbin lost four games and lost 1-3 to his teammates and was eliminated.
Although one person had to be lost due to signing reasons, Xu Yingbin and Yuan Licen deserve our praise for their performance in this competition, so no matter what the outcome of the civil war is, we must affirm the performance of the two!
Xu Yingbin was born in 2001 and Yuan Licen was born in 2000, both of them are newly rising young players in recent years, and they have also performed well in domestic and foreign competitions before, but compared with Wang Chuqin of the same age and the younger Xiang Peng and Lin Shidong, there are some shortcomings, and they have gradually been opened the gap, so they urgently need more achievements to prove themselves.
In this Thai tournament, Xu Yingbin played bravery, knocking out Japanese World Cup runner-up Zhang Benzhihe 11-2, and Yuan Licen also eliminated South Korea's World Table Tennis Third Place An Jae-hyun 11-1, removing two strong enemies for National Table Ping, and then meeting in the Round of 16 to start a new showdown.
After the start of the match, Xu Yingbin dominated the first set, was not suppressed by the opponent's left-handed line advantage, and successfully won 3 sets 10-7. But at the critical moment, Yuan Licen did not sit still, but very tenaciously organized a counterattack, and then not only tied the score, but also won 12-10, chasing 5 points in a row to win the top, Xu Yingbin lost a little pity.
In the second game, Xu Yingbin came up to 1-5 behind, seemed to be immersed in the loss of the previous game and did not come out, and soon fell behind 6-10, but this time it was his turn to score consecutive points and chase 10 draws, but he could not stage a comeback, and was forced into a cornered situation with another 11-13 loss.
In the third game, Xu Yingbin finally won back 11-6 to avoid being swept away, but in the fourth game he fell into passivity again, trailing the score continuously, and finally lost the entire match 7-11, losing 1-3 and stopping the position of the men's singles top 16: some pity, but also congratulations to Yuan Licen for advancing to the quarterfinals.
Although he lost the game, Xu Yingbin can turn Zhang Benzhihe over this time and knock out the number one opponent of the national table tennis men's team, which has already made great achievements, and is still worthy of our recognition, and finally I wish him and Yuan Licen more brilliant in the future, come on young man!