On January 5, the semifinals of the WTT Doha Men's Finals began, Fan Zhendong vs. Guoguo Table Tennis Lin Gaoyuan, which will be the most suspenseful game in the whole game, and Fan Zhendong is likely to be stopped in the semifinals.
Of course, there is a basis for saying this, Fan Zhendong is now unable to get half a point advantage in the face of players like Lin Gaoyuan on the field, and Lin Gaoyuan's skills and tactics are very advanced.
We can find that the two of them are completely different styles, Fan Zhendong is a violent style of play, like to open and close, although Fan Zhendong has recently changed to the direction of control flow, but his original technology is still the mainstream. And Fan Zhendong pays more attention to the rotation of the ball, often pressing his center of gravity very low, which will make the spin of the ball more intense, but it will also slow down his speed.
Lin Gaoyuan is different, relative to rotation and mass, Lin Gaoyuan pays more attention to the speed of the near platform, and he often desperately controls the situation on the stage in the near platform, which can ensure his speed. And Lin Gaoyuan's serve is a fighting style of play, which means that there is very little insurance in normal times, and the insurance here is spinning, and he is mainly impacting and extremely fast. The last time Fan Zhendong and Lin Gaoyuan fought, Fan Zhendong was hit by Lin Gaoyuan's continuous speed advantage and couldn't stretch out his hand, and the ball came over before the action was finished.
Therefore, this time the competition between Fan Zhendong and Lin Gaoyuan can be said to be the competition between the world's leading rotary flow and velocity flow. And Lin Gaoyuan has just experienced the competition with Ma Long, the captain of the national table tennis team, and now his morale is flourishing, and winning Fan Zhendong in one fell swoop is also very impactful.
In fact, Lin Gaoyuan's strength has already been at the super-first-class level, and his worst thing is his mentality. This time against Sweden's Carlberg, who led 10-4, almost made the opponent directly turn the tables against the wind. However, he and Fan Zhendong are very familiar this time, and the psychological pressure is less, and he is likely to play at a super level.
So this time Fan Zhendong is in danger, and Lin Gaoyuan may become the biggest dark horse.