Table Super League: Xu Xin suffered his first defeat! After a 5-game reversal, he lost 2-3 to Wang Chuqin
On the evening of July 16, Beijing time, the 2023 Table Tennis Super League continued, and the men's team project ushered in a focus battle, the two world champions Xu Xin and Wang Chuqin met for the first time, representing Shanghai Real Estate and Shandong Weiqiao Club respectively, in the first set of doubles matches, and this battle can also be regarded as a contest between the new and old generations of national table tennis "doubles kings".
In this game, Xu Xin/Zhou Kai fell behind 0-1 and won 2-1, but in the end they failed to seize the opportunity and lost 2-3. Almost at the same time, Xu Xin's old partner Liu Shiwen also suffered defeat in the women's team competition, which is really the back wave of the Yangtze River pushing the front wave, and a generation of new people replace old people!
Xu Xin and Wang Chuqin are the masters of the left-handed playing style of national table tennis, the former was born in 1990, the latter was born in 2000, exactly ten years apart, both won the men's doubles and mixed doubles gold medals of the World Table Tennis Championships, Xu Xin has participated in the Olympic mixed doubles competition with Liu Shiwen, and Wang Chuqin is also very promising to be selected for the Olympic mixed doubles event with Sun Yingsha.
However, the partner of the battle of the table super can only be found from the club, compared to the national team is definitely inferior, this time Xu Xin is competing with Zhou Kai, and Wang Chuqin is cooperating with Zhou Qihao, relatively speaking, the latter two may be more superior.
After the start of the match, the two sides played inextricably in the first game, and the difference could not be opened. Although this is Xu Xin's second match in more than a year, you can still see that he is in very good form, but the two athletes opposite are in the prime of their careers, and Wang Chuqin/Zhou Qihao took the initiative in the second half and successfully won 11-8.
In the second game, Xu Xin/Zhou Kai regained their form, and at the beginning of the game, they also showed off the downspin ball from the near stage, which made the fans clap their hands, and then took a 9-2 lead, and finally easily won back 11-4.
In the third game, Wang Chuqin/Zhou Qihao took the advantage again, but Xu Xin/Zhou Kai also chased the score to only 1 point in step by step, forcing the opponent to call a timeout to adjust. After returning to the arena, Xu Xin/Zhou Kai continued to be powerful, successfully reversing the unfavorable situation on the field, turning the game 13-11, and the big score also turned into a 2-1 lead and forced the opponent into a corner.
In the fourth game, Wang Chuqin/Zhou Qihao fought back to drag the match into a tiebreaker 11-8. In the fifth game, Wang Chuqin/Zhou Qihao no longer gave their opponents a chance and ended the battle 11-8, thus winning 3-2 and winning not easily!