On January 12th, in the second round of the WTT Doha Star Challenge 2024 women's singles, the national table tennis teenager Kuo Man played, and the opponent was the 60-year-old Luxembourg Chinese veteran and former national table tennis world champion Ni Xialian, after five rounds of battle, Ni Xialian had the last laugh in the tiebreaker 11-6.
60-year-old Ni Xialian, who was once the national table tennis world champion in the last century, later went to Luxembourg to play, and is still active in the table tennis world, writing the "myth of immortality". At the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, Ni Xialian and Denut stepped onto the women's doubles podium.
In the singles arena, Ni Xialian "lessons" to juniors from time to time. g Wang Yidi lost 2-3 to Ni Xialian in 2021. Chen Yi, Wu Yangchen, Guo Yuhan, Zhu Sibing, etc., faced Ni Xialian, and also lost.
This time, the national table tennis player Kuo Man faced Ni Xialian and was defeated again.
Ni Xialian crushed the score 11-2 and won the first game. In the second game, Kuo Man led all the way to 11-5. In the third game, Ni Xialian opened the score 9-4, Kuo Man chased three points in a row, and Ni Xialian won 11-7. In the fourth game, Kuaiman led 7-3, Ni Xialian chased three points in a row, and Kuaiman scored 11-6 in a row.
The game entered the deciding game, Ni Xialian started 4-0, Kuo Man chased only one point, Ni Xialian maintained the lead, scored consecutive points after 7-6, and won the game 11-6.