The first round of the Table Tennis World Cup continued, with Chinese players appearing one after another, and in the latest match, Wang Yidi defeated Du Kaiqin 3:1. It is worth mentioning that the point lost by Wang Yidi is the first point lost by the Chinese table tennis team in this World Cup, and all the players who played before won 4:0 against the opponent, and there was no loss of points before Wang Yidi appeared.
Why do you want to emphasize the point you have lost? Because the group stage of this Table Tennis World Cup is played in four games. Any scoreline, 3:1, 3:0, 2:2, and in the event of a draw, there is a possibility of a tie, at which point will determine the only qualifying spot in the group. It's going to be a small score. For example, today Wang Yidi defeated Du Kaiqin 3:1. If Shan Xiaona defeats Du Kaiqin 4:0, as long as she draws 2:2 in the match with Wang Yidi, she can beat Wang Yidi to finish out of this group by virtue of the advantage of small points. So this 3:1 score is really different from the kind of table tennis victory we usually see, which will more or less bury a small hidden danger for Wang Yidi's qualification.
With the blessing of such a new competition system, all athletes, especially in the duel with a huge disparity between strength and weakness, the top players are also doing their best to fight. In the middle of the first day of the group stage, there were already three 11:0 and two 11:1 scores. The reason why these top players are still so competitive is that they are afraid of accidents, and when they need to calculate a small game and a small score in the end, they can have an advantage, so Wang Yidi's victory, losing this point is still a little troublesome. I also have to watch the match between Shan Xiaona and Du Kaiqin.
Of course, for Wang Yidi, if he can directly defeat Shan Xiaona, the things we talked about above will no longer exist. However, because she is the first national table tennis player to lose points, Wang Yidi was once again widely discussed by fans, because her performance in the foreign war of the Paris Olympic cycle is relatively poor, she has lost seven foreign wars, and she is the main player who has lost the most foreign wars.
However, according to the new rules of national table tennis, as long as Wang Yidi will not lose two or more foreign battles in this World Cup, including the next Grand Slam matches, she can still compete for the Olympic Games with the advantage of points, so she still has to adjust her mentality.
The words they face today are actually the weakest player in this group, she is currently ranked 34th in the world, and the other opponent Shan Xiaona is ranked 29th in the world, so in the face of such a player with the lowest strength ranking in the group, Wang Yidi lost a point, which is still more or less troublesome, I hope she will adjust her state in the next game, and directly defeat Shan Xiaona in one fell swoop to avoid falling into the scoring situation.