On the afternoon of March 29, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Incheon Championship continued, and the national table tennis Olympic champion Fan Zhendong appeared on the stage to compete with the German Olympic runner-up Francesca.
At present, five men have advanced to the quarterfinals, with Liang Jingkun and Fan Zhendong, the two main players of national table tennis, passing the test, and Ma Long not appearing for the time being; Brazil's Hugo and France's Felix Lebrun and Simon have already advanced, and the competition has begun to become more and more intense! Please see below for detailed results.
Highlights of the game
Francesca is a member of the German men's team, he has defeated the five main national table tennis Ma Long, Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, and just defeated Ma Long again at the WTT Singapore Grand Slam this month.
Prior to that, Fan had played Francesca six times, winning five of those matches, but the opponent's recent form has been really good, so this matchup is still a test.
The process of the game
After the start of the game, Francesca played very aggressively, and did not lose his strength when he stepped back, and the quality of many balls exceeded Fan Zhendong's expectations. However, after a little adaptation, Fan Zhendong began to counterattack strongly and played a very wonderful "crossing ball", but then the lead was tied by the game point, and then the two played inseparable, and Fan Zhendong finally won the first place with 15-13 difficulty.
In the second game, Fan Zhendong's mentality was obviously relaxed, and the pressure was on Francesca, who had previously led and was overturned, but he failed to show a good state in the first half of the first game, and was won by Fan Zhendong 11-8, and he will be eliminated if he loses one more game.
In the third game, Fan Zhendong was like a bamboo, and he continued to suppress Francesca, using more comprehensive forehand and backhand techniques to successfully meet the Germans, and finally locked the victory 11-6, so that the big score was 3-0 to sweep the strong opponent to advance to the quarterfinals, refusing to lose to the opponent again.
Prior to this, national table tennis player Liang Jingkun reversed Slovenia's Darko 3-1, Brazilian star Hugo eliminated France's Alex Lebrun 3-1, Alex's younger brother Felix Lebrun swept the German world champion Ocharov 3-0, France's Simon also beat the host player Lee Sang-so 3-0, and the rest of the top 16 matches will be held on the evening of March 29, which is worth paying attention to.