In the early morning of January 11, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Doha Star Match continued, and everyone was looking forward to seeing a world championship battle - Bol (Germany) VS Karlsson (Sweden) did not start because the latter withdrew, and another German player Duda, who was out of the qualifying stage, won the supplementary qualification, replacing Karlsson to face his brother.
It is a pity that after 5 rounds of fierce battles, the 42-year-old Bol was finally eliminated 2-3 and missed the promotion to the top 32 and the national table tennis Grand Slam Ma Long.
Match Focus
Bol and Karlsson are both famous players in the table tennis world of foreign associations, but after losing to Ma Long/Wang Chuqin in the men's doubles on January 10, Karlsson announced his retirement due to illness.
Although the results are far inferior to those of the senior brother, Duda is younger after all, and he is more familiar with each other.
The process of the game
Sure enough, after the start of the game, Bol fell into a passive situation - because both of them were left-handed horizontal shots and two-sided anti-glue play, so everyone had no advantage in the landing point and line, and Bol's specialty was the stable holding after the control of the near stage, but because Duda knew himself better, he couldn't take too much advantage, but the disadvantage in strength was difficult to make up, and then he lost the first game 15-17.
In the second game, the two sides played inextricably again, although Duda was still aggressive, but Bol's stability was still relatively higher, although he was dragged to the key point again, but this time he won 11-9, and the two sides returned to the same running line.
In the third game, the two still did not give in to each other, Bol's biggest problem was that the quality was not high after the first start, and the result was directly pulled back by Duda's backhand that was close to the stage, and then he was forced into a desperate situation with a 10-12 defeat, but then in the fourth game, he narrowly won 11-9 to tie the big score, and the decisive game also came.
In the fifth game, Bol was already at the end of the strong crossbow, and after the four rounds of the vicious battle, his physical fitness and energy were obviously insufficient, and he was soon won by the opponent with 6 match points, and finally lost the whole game 4-11.
So can he continue to beat Ma Long in the future? Let's cheer for the Chinese team together!