On the evening of January 12, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Doha Star Match continued, and the national table tennis men's singles ushered in the test again, the 18-year-old hope star Lin Shidong met the Slovenian star and European champion Darko, as a result, Lin Shidong achieved a big reversal in the case of losing a game first, and finally eliminated the strong opponent 3-1 and took the lead in advancing to the men's singles quarterfinals.
After losing the WTT Men's Finals a few days ago and falling out of the top 10 in the men's singles rankings, Lin Shidong is now setting sail again in Doha, and is looking forward to another great feat for the young star.
Match Focus
Darko is currently an important figure in European men's table tennis, having won the singles championship of the European Cup, and has won against Asian and European masters such as Liang Jingkun and Zhang Benzhihe. This man's technique is very comprehensive, with both the powerful arc ball lethality of traditional European players and the very delicate first three board feel, and he is indeed a difficult opponent.
Although the teenager Lin Shidong has made rapid progress, there are also many inconsistencies, especially the performance in the recent period has not been ideal, he only lost to Qiu Dang in the finals a few days ago, and this time he encountered another strong opponent, Darko, and faced a serious challenge.
The process of the game
After the start of the first game, Lin Shidong really retreated as soon as he came up - compared with Dako, Lin Shidong entered the state slowly, and it seemed that there was no discipline. wanted to use his strong backhand attack, but the opponent was not afraid of the confrontation in this area, and the control of the near stage was not as good as the European opposite, and finally only scored 3 points and lost a city first.
In the second game, Lin Shidong began to organize a counterattack and quickly got the game point, but he was also attacked by Darko's crazy counterattack, but fortunately, in the end, he narrowly won 11-9 to win back a city, so that the opponent's quick victory could go bankrupt.
In the third game, Lin Shidong continued to exert his strength and won 11-5, successfully forcing the opponent into a desperate situation. In the fourth game, the situation has been completely reversed, Darko began to make mistakes on the court, and there was no advantage in the strength ball confrontation, and finally Lin Shidong locked the victory with 11-7, and the national table tennis also got the first men's singles quarterfinals: Congratulations to the national table tennis!
At present, it seems that Lin Shidong's technology has reached the world-class level, and what he lacks is experience and adjustment ability, I hope he can continue to make up for his shortcomings and strive to take on the responsibility of the main force of national table tennis as soon as possible: come on!