In the early morning of May 22, Beijing time, the Durban World Table Tennis Championships ended all the battles on the second match day, and the national table tennis won 4 games and 4 victories after 5 consecutive wins on the first day, except for Wang Chuqin who lost a game, the other players were clean sheets, especially Lin Gaoyuan/Lin Shidong swept Zhang Benzhikazu/Yoshimura Maharu 3-0 to boost morale and break the undefeated golden body of the Japanese team.
In terms of foreign associations, Brazil's star Hugo, England's Piczeford, Chinese Taipei's main Chen Siyu broke out, the Japanese national champion and Kawa-Ruiji a round, Tomokazu Changmoto, Misei Ito and others successfully passed, and they both shot an 11-1 score: against athletes of average level, the two are indeed chopping melons and cutting vegetables, but I don't know if they will cry later - see below for details.
First, the situation of the national table tennis war
On the second day of the World Table Tennis Championships, the national table tennis participated in three singles and one doubles, of which Wang Chuqin lost a set in the Belrose clash in Tahiti and won 4-1, which is somewhat surprising, because the opponent and his association are indeed not famous, but he is indeed quite spiritual, and even the world champion Liu Guozheng who participated in the commentary was praised.
Lin Gaoyuan met Poland's Dias, who eliminated Zhang Benzhihe in the last World Table Tennis Championships, and Lin Gaoyuan won 4-0 and advanced and played smoothly. As for the contest between Wang Yidi and Croatia's Jaig, it was even more chopping melons and cutting vegetables, winning 4-0, with an average of only 3 points per game, and the difference in strength was too big.
The men's doubles China-Japan duel was the focus of everyone's attention on the second day, Lin Gaoyuan/Lin Shidong, Zhang Benzhi and / Yoshimura Maharu, the two pairs that had just been established not long ago met together in the first round, and the result was still the national table tennis combination with superior skills, slamming 3-0 to win, except for the second game was chased by the other side to the last 2 points, the advantage of the first and third games was relatively large.
Prior to this, the main players of national table tennis Liang Jingkun, Ma Long, Chen Meng, Chen Xingtong all completed their singles debuts with a score of 4-0, and Lin Shidong/Qu Man also swept their opponents 3-0, and Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha, and Wang Manyu have not yet played because of the first round of byes, but will soon participate in the battle on the third day.
Second, the performance of foreign associations
In terms of foreign associations, the No. 6 seed Hugo in men's singles actually lost 2-4 to Puerto Rico's Avanadore; Ingla's Piczeford, who defeated Ma Long and Xu Xin, lost 3-4 to Portugal's Gerlardo 3-4, losing 11-13 in the tiebreaker; Chinese Taipei's Chen Siyu was swept away in a 4-0 defeat to Romania's Lagerman; Japanese national champion and Kawazuki once again played outsiders, losing 3-4 to Slovenia's Kozur.
In other matches, Chinese Taipei's Lin Yunru only beat Singapore's Guo Yong 4-2, and his injury was serious; Germany's Qiu Dang also beat Brazil's Vito 4-2; Mixed doubles seeds Lebesson/Yuan Jianan (CHNIF) trailed 0-2 and defeated Germany's Francesca/Shan Xiaona 3-2; Another Japanese national champion, Yukiya Uda, narrowly beat Chile's Burgos 4-3.
As for the rest of the Japanese team, they have successfully passed, including Tomokazu Changmoto, Hayasuke Togami, Maharu Yoshimura, Mimato Ito, Hina Hayada, Miu Hirano, Miyu Kihara, Miyu Nagasaki, and most of them swept their opponents 4-0, Tomokazu Changmoto and Mimato Ito all scored 11-1 in a single game, and they were in good shape.
Next, Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha, and Wang Manyu, who have not played in National Pingping, are about to make their debuts, and National Table Tennis and the Japanese team will usher in the second strong confrontation, that is, men's singles Liang Jingkun VS Yoshimura Maharu, which is also a veritable battle of world championships, so who can have the last laugh? Let's wait and see: come on, Chinese team!