The men's table tennis world champion was eliminated 1-3, and the Japanese team lost to the Iranian player again
On January 9, 2024, the table tennis WTT Star Tournament Doha continued, the men's singles field was upset, the Japanese world champion was eliminated, Yoshimura Maharu lost 1-3 to Iran's Alamian, following Zhuang Zhiyuan and Ni Xialian, another World Table Tennis Championships champion lost.
In the second round of the men's singles qualifying round, Japan's star Yoshimura Maharu played against Iran's Alamian, as we all know, the Japanese team suffered a big loss, lost to the Iranian player and went out of the game, Tomokazu Zhangmoto was even more defeated by Alamian and Avshin Nowruzi, which is a big surprise, and now the two sides are meeting again, facing the experienced Yoshimura Maharu, whether Alamian can continue to move forward is naturally concerned by fans.
Japanese player Yoshimura Maharu has been famous for a long time, once partnered with Kasumi Ishikawa, won a mixed doubles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships, in addition to two runner-up experience, last year won a single win against Ma Long, in the foreign association is a very good player, but because of the low ranking, you need to start from the qualifying round, Yoshimura Maharu's serve is very distinctive, with a strong ability to hold on, it is indeed not to be ignored.
The opponent is 31-year-old Alamian, ranked only 208 in the world, and the level in the team is not as good as Alamiyan, but the results against Japanese players are good, often do extraordinary performance, after the start of the game, the first game Yoshimura Maharu by strengthening the rhythm change, Alamian is difficult to adapt to the first three boards, and the rush to get started leads to more unnecessary mistakes, Yoshimura Maharu leads in an all-round way, taking the lead with 11-7.
In the second game, Alamian stabilized his position, served a long ball and Yoshimura Maharu to fight each other, tried to avoid fighting in the near stage, played very simply, but the effect was very good, Yoshimura Maharu was in a downward spiral, Alamian blasted out 11-3 and colored, in the third game Alamian took advantage of the situation to chase, Yoshimura Maharu was still looking for a chance to receive the serve, and the quality of the match almost did not change the line, and Alamian won another game 11-8.
In the fourth game, the mentality of both people changed, and it was meaningless for Yoshimura to pause, because the level of off-court guidance was limited, and Alamian blasted out 11-4 to end the game, and finally reversed Yoshimura Maharu 3-1, and eliminated the world champion in an upset, Yoshimura Maharu became the first player in the Japanese team to lose, and he didn't expect that he couldn't enter the main game, Alamian's level of play is commendable, but there is still a difficulty to pass.
In the doubles event that ended just before, there were two world champions who lost, Zhuang Zhiyuan/Gao Chengrui lost to the Indian combination Thakar/Manash, Mladenovic / Ni Xialian lost to Takar/Kamath, so many masters participated in the qualifying stage, the gold content of this station is self-evident, the national table tennis except Yuan Licen, are directly qualified for the main competition, the real highlight is still to come, so stay tuned.