WTT Star Challenge Bangkok, men's singles focus matchup, national table tennis junior Lin Shidong upset to South Korea's Zhao Shengmin. In addition, Yuan Licen eliminated Xu Yingbin.
Lin Shidong is ranked 15th in the world, and South Korea's Cho Seung-min is ranked only 59th in the world. In the first game of this game, Lin Shidong encountered suppression, and the attack and defense occupied a clear disadvantage, and soon lost a game 7-11. In the second game, Lin Shidong began to fight back, but there were still too many mistakes in the key points, and 9-11 lost another game into a desperate situation. In the third game, Lin Shidong seemed to have some low morale, and he suddenly realized that he began to chase the score at the beginning of 0-5, but it was too late, and in the end, Lin Shidong lost another game 8-11, and lost 0-3 and was upset.
Lin Shidong is optimistic to be able to impact the men's singles championship of this station, but unfortunately, the national table tennis men's team always seems to be a little unprepared against South Korean players, Lin Shidong lost the foreign battle and paid tuition again.
In addition, the men's singles ended a national table tennis civil war. Xu Yingbin, ranked 47th in the world, and Yuan Licen ranked 32nd in the world, are both second-tier national table tennis players, and there are not many opportunities to compete abroad. However, Xu Yingbin eliminated Zhang Benzhihe 3-1 in the last round, and once broke his opponent and proved his strength.
This matchup, both sides are very familiar with national table tennis players, Yuan Licen obviously knows how to fight against Xu Yingbin, and won the key score of 12-10 in the first game. In the second game, the two sides were still difficult to solve, and Yuan Licen once again grasped the key score to win 13-11. In the third game, Xu Yingbin recovered the game 11-6, but soon Yuan Licen ended the suspense in the fourth game, won 11-7, and advanced 3-1.
Although Xu Yingbin strongly eliminated the top seed Zhang Benzhihe in this competition, he finally fell to the pat of his teammates. It must be admitted that the competition within the national table tennis team is quite fierce, although there are few overseas competitions, so that these second-tier players face high-ranking players when they fight outside the world is somewhat mysterious, but it is also difficult to continue to play their full strength because of too little competition experience.