On January 23, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Goa Star Tournament officially started, and it has only ended the first day of the qualifying competition, and the result was a big upset - the male table tennis star, India's first brother Achanta suffered a big reversal, leading 2-0, losing 3 games in a row to South Korean chipper Jiang Dongxiu, and the deciding game was even more mentality collapse, and he was eliminated after only 3 points, which is regrettable.
In this competition, the national table tennis and Japanese athletes did not participate, the South Korean team has a great advantage, and the five events have the strength to impact the championship.
Achanta is the first brother of Indian men's table tennis for nearly ten years, although he is not young, he still has strong combat effectiveness, his skills are very comprehensive, and his performance in domestic and foreign competitions can still be on a par with the rising star Ghana Sekaran.
Relatively speaking, Jiang Dongxiu's main player is "eating raw and afraid of cooking", as a chipper, his offensive ability is not bad, the ball is relatively strange, and he is very threatening when he encounters unfamiliar opponents, but he can find that his level is very average when he fights more, although he has won the world's top ten Hugo, but in the past year, he has lost miserably in foreign wars, and his ability can be seen.
After the start of this game, Achanta quickly mastered the dominance in the first game, winning 11-6 relatively easily, and then the two entered a very fierce stalemate in the second game, at this time Jiang Dongxiu's state has rebounded significantly, but Achanta is experienced after all, and finally won 12-10 to win the next city, thus forcing the opponent into a desperate situation.
In the third game, the two sides still fought back and forth in the first eight rounds, but in the later stage, Kang Dongxiu quickly made a quick effort to win 11-4, and then passed the fourth game 17-15, which forced Achanta to the decisive stage.
In the fifth game, Jiang Dongxiu kept the ball, as a chipper, he organized a sharp counterattack many times, played the style of Ding Song and Zhu Shihe, and soon grasped the initiative on the court and continued to take the lead, and finally ended the battle 11-3 after holding 7 match points, thus achieving a good reversal of 3 consecutive games, and it was indeed tenacious!
However, as mentioned earlier, although Jiang Dongxiu can occasionally cause upsets, his results are very sluggish, and he has only reached the top 16 in 11 foreign battles in the past year, stopped the qualifying round 3 times, and was eliminated in the top 64 of the main competition 3 times.
Let's wait and see how it performs!