7 world champions of national table tennis lost! Liu Shiwen opened the door black, and Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin were tragically reversed
On the evening of July 16, Beijing time, the 2023 Table Super League ended the second day of the showdown, the current situation is very tragic, in addition to Lin Gaoyuan, who lost on the first day, as many as six world champions suffered defeats, namely Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, Liu Shiwen, Wang Yidi.
Although most of the world champions are lost to the world champion, there are still cases of upset and non-main breakthroughs, including Wang Chuqin losing 2-3 to Zhou Kai, Fan Zhendong losing 2-3 to Zhou Qihao, and both are big reversals, the competition has entered a white-hot stage, and seven team matches will be ushered in on July 17, which is worth paying attention to! See below for details of the battle and schedule.
The women's team competition officially started on the second day of the table super, and the Olympic champion veteran Liu Shiwen, who had not participated in the actual battle for more than a year, officially announced her return to represent the Longjiang Huimin Insurance team, and as a result, she met the powerful Shandong Luneng Club, Liu Shiwen only played a doubles and lost 0-3 with Qi Fei to Chen Xingtong/Qian Tianyi, and the whole team was swept 0-3.
Liu Shiwen's old partner Xu Xin (Shanghai Real Estate) also lost consecutive games in the evening, including a 2-3 defeat to Wang Chuqin/Zhou Qihao (Shandong Weiqiao) in doubles with Zhou Kai, and a 3-1 reversal by Liang Jingkun in singles - but the competition between the two clubs was too fierce, directly playing five sets, and the other three were even more ups and downs.
Fan Zhendong, who represented Shanghai, swept Liang Jingkun of Weiqiao in Shandong Province 3-0, including an eight-point comeback from 4-10 in the third game; However, Fan Zhendong did not have to be happy for long, and he lost 3 consecutive games with a 2-0 lead against Zhou Qihao and was overturned by the opponent; As for Zhou Qihao's teammate Wang Chuqin, who led Zhou Kai 1-0, 2-1, was reversed, and finally lost 2-3.
In this way, a team competition saw that four world champions lost one after another, and the two teams stumbled to the fifth set to determine the victory by defeating Xu Xin by Liang Jingkun, which is really a veritable immortal fight, and the successive defeats of Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong also kicked off the prelude to the national table tennis world champion's upset and non-main defeat.
Another world championship loss of the women's team occurred in the battle between Shenzhen University and East China Institute of Technology, and Sun Yingsha, who represented the former, won a big victory, sweeping her former teammate Wang Yidi 3-0, this battle Wang Yidi only scored 6 points in the first two games except for the last game entangled to 10 draws, which can be said to be a complete defeat.
According to the arrangement, there will be four men's team and three women's team matches on July 17, all concentrated at 18:00 in the evening, of which the focus of the men's team is Ma Long's Shandong Luneng vs. Lin Gaoyuan's Shantou Mingrun, and the women's team is Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi's Shandong Luneng vs. Wang Yidi's East China Institute of Technology, so let's sit and wait for the new showdown to kick off!