Lin Shidong only snatched two games from Wang Chuqin, where did he lose?

In the early morning of January 14, Beijing time, the 2024 WTT Star Challenge Doha came to a perfect conclusion. After winning the women's doubles and men's doubles championships before, the national table tennis players once again won the mixed doubles, women's singles, and men's singles championships, realizing all five individual championships.

1. Women's Doubles Champion: Chen Xingtong/Qian Tianyi, Runner-up: Diaknu/Xiao Yaoqian.

2. Men's Doubles Champion: Yuan Licen/Liang Jingkun, Runner-up: Ma Long/Wang Chuqin.

3. Work Champion: Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, Runner-up: Lin Shidong/Kuo Man.

4. Women's Singles Champion: Sun Yingsha, Runner-up: Chen Meng.

#4) 4-10000, Sun Yingsha 4-1. Five-game scores: 11-7, 11-6, 2-11, 11-7, 12-10.

The current Chen Meng is a bit like Ma Long now, with good results in foreign battles, but in the face of his teammates who are the main force of national table tennis, the chances of winning are not high. Chen Meng will win 6 championships in 2023, but if she is not a team runner-up, or a doubles champion, there is no women's singles champion. Chen Meng is now ranked fourth in the world, and in front of her are Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, and Wang Manyu.

In the first WTT tournament in 2024, it is of course a good thing that Chen Meng can reach the women's singles final again, but against her old rival Sun Yingsha, she has lost four consecutive games in the international arena and is completely disadvantaged. Chen Meng also knew that if she played step by step, it was inevitable to lose, so she thought about "fighting" from the beginning.

After the opening of the game, Chen Meng behaved very actively, dared to take the initiative to get started, and decisively changed the line, but he was a little too strong, but he made too many mistakes, injuring 800 enemies, but losing 1,000 himself. The first two games were always in a passive situation, losing two games in a row. In the third game, he finally played the result he wanted, but the fourth and fifth games could not be sustained, and he finally lost the battle.

5. Men's Singles Champion: Wang Chuqin, Runner-up: Lin Shidong.

Men's singles final: Wang Chuqin 4-2 Lin Shidong. Six games: 11-8, 11-3, 10-12, 11-7, 4-11, 11-5.

Wang Chuqin has been gaining momentum recently, winning the championship with a 4-0 clean sheet against Fan Zhendong in the men's finals. Facing Qiu Dang, who was in good shape, Wang Chuqin won 4-0 in the finals and also kept a clean sheet 3-0 in this tournament. The 18-year-old Lin Shidong met Wang Chuqin, who is now in full swing, and finally won two games, which shows his strength.

Lin Shidong has no regrets about losing this game, after all, he really can't beat it, because his performance is not bad. But at the same time, it also exposes some of its own shortcomings, which are briefly summarized in a few points:

1. The rhythm of the game is not well grasped, and almost every game has a situation of losing more than 4 points in a row.

2. Unclear tactics. Knowing that his advantage is in the backhand, and Wang Chuqin's backhand is quite more balanced, at first in order to avoid Wang Chuqin's backhand, he wanted to attack with a forehand. As a result, I found that the forehand was not cheap to talk about the far platform reversal, so I didn't know how to deal with it.

3. Lin Shidong has a service error in almost every game. Unable to effectively control one's own mistakes, especially when scoring in a row, a service error will interrupt one's momentum of consecutive points.

4. Lin Shidong habitually retired from the stage. After Lin Shidong retired from the stage, he could occasionally hit a very beautiful ball with a backhand backhand, but the threat of returning the ball after he retired from the stage would inevitably decrease. In addition, Lin Shidong's strength is not fully mature, and the forehand is at a disadvantage in the far platform attack as a whole, which is why Wang Chuqin is often the first to rub the long, even if Lin Shidong is allowed to get started first and form a confrontation with the middle and far platform spinning the ball, Wang Chuqin can also be more confident.

In fact, Lin Shidong has to stand as close to the platform as possible, coupled with a sharp backhand twist and pull, whether it is speed or the quality of the board, few opponents can defend against it. In general, it is still inexperienced, the mentality is unstable, and it needs to be experienced.

In the final of last year's WTT Goa Star Challenge, Lin Shidong lost to Liang Jingkun 2-4, and this time he met Liang Jingkun again, Lin Shidong won 3-0;