On the first day of the Incheon Champions Cup, there will be three Chinese players, Wang Yidi, who took the lead, defeated Yang Xiaoxin 3:1, and the first male player to appear today is Liang Jingkun, Liang Jingkun's recent form is very good, in the Grand Slam tournament just ended, he went all the way to the finals, especially the results in the foreign war are very outstanding, extremely good at playing against the wind, always able to turn the tide in the case of 0:2 or even 0:3 behind, today his first round of matches was extremely difficult, almost became the object of reversal.
Liang Jingkun's opponent in the first round is Carlberg, this player is very high-level, and it is definitely difficult to deal with. On the one hand, his style of play is extremely solid, and you can even see it as the Swedish version of Malone, and there are no obvious shortcomings in all aspects of his skills. Of course, he will definitely not reach the level of Ma Long, but because there are no obvious technical shortcomings, it is difficult to find a breakthrough when playing with him, plus Carlberg is a relatively peaceful European player, not prone to emotional fluctuations like Moregard, which makes it more difficult for opponents to break through his defense psychologically.
In this game, Liang Jingkun must still have an advantage in strength, with a 2:0 lead, he has the burden of wanting to win and being afraid of losing, but it allowed Carlberg to seize the opportunity to win two games in a row, and the game finally reached a tiebreaker. However, fortunately, Liang Jingkun, who was more powerful, defeated Carlberg in the deciding game very thrillingly, becoming the first Chinese player to advance to the top 16 of men's singles in this competition. This can be regarded as a revenge battle completed by Liang Jingkun. Because at last year's Bangkok Planet Challenge, Carlberg defeated Liang Jingkun, and it can be seen that this player's strength is still very good.
In an interview after the game, Liang Jingkun also talked about why he was equalized by his opponent when he was leading 2:0 and fell into a hard battle. According to Liang Jingkun's own words, when he was about to win the game, he was really in a hurry, always thinking about winning the opponent with one board. This impatience was very obvious in the third game, when Liang Jingkun lost the game 4:11 in a single game, which caused a huge gap compared with the smooth sailing of the first two games, which was the impact of the change in mentality.
On the other hand, the opponent is a player with no technical shortcomings and a very stable mentality, maybe for him, there is no difference between 0:2 behind and 0:0, play every ball well and then slowly chase back, so Carlberg chased two games in a row in the end.
However, Carlberg is still not as good as Liang Jingkun in terms of strength, when Liang Jingkun stabilizes his mentality, it is a very normal thing to win, congratulations to Liang Jingkun for being able to enter the round of 16 of this competition, which is also the second 3:2 score today. In the opening match of this competition, the host players Tian Zhixi and Yuan Jiannan once played 3:2, and the situation was very similar, when Tian Zhixi was 2:2 by the opponent in two games, and defeated the opponent in the deciding game. Judging from the first round of the competition, the championship cup is still very exciting and worth looking forward to.