On the evening of January 4, Beijing time, the table tennis men's finals continued, and in the men's doubles 1/4 finals, Lin Shidong/Lin Gaoyuan played against Ocharov/Francesca. In this way, the top 4 men's doubles have also been released: Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, Xiang Peng/Yuan Licen, Lin Shidong/Lin Gaoyuan, Felix/Alex, and the national table tennis occupies 3 seats.
Lin Gaoyuan and Lin Shidong both participated in the singles competition, but Lin Shidong lost to Qiu Dang in the first round, and Lin Gaoyuan won consecutive games (just defeated Ma Long) to advance to the top 4! Ocharov/Francesca is a pair of German pairs, both of them have rich game experience, and the combination of Lin Shidong and Lin Gaoyuan is not a particularly tacit understanding, for the national table tennis combination, it is still relatively difficult to advance to the top 4.
Prior to this match, the men's doubles semi-finals had already been announced with three places: French brothers Felix/Alex swept Singapore's Guo Yong/Feng Yaoen 3-0, Xiang Peng/Yuan Licen reversed Yuya Uda/Hayasuke Togami 3-2, and top seeds Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin defeated Huang Zhenting/He Junjie 3-1.
In the first game, the two sides played a relatively close game, and the German combination was more stable in the key points, and there was no danger to win. In the second game, the national table tennis combination quickly withstood the opponent's counterattack at the end of the game, and successfully won 11-7, with a big score of 1-1.
In the third game, the national table tennis combination started 3-1, the German combination scored 3 points in a row, and the national table tennis combination scored 2 points in a row to stabilize the situation, and at the end of the game, Lin Gaoyuan quickly opened the score difference 9-4, and then 10-5 got the game point, 11-6 and the next city, and the big score was 2-1. In the fourth game, the Shuanglin combination stopped the opponent at the beginning of 5-2, and then maintained the suppression, successfully won it, and reversed 3-1.
Men's Doubles semi-finals:
Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin VS Lin Shidong/Lin Gaoyuan
Xiang Peng/Yuan Licen VS Felix/Alex