On April 15, Beijing time, in the first round of the group stage of the Macau Singles World Cup, Lin Gaoyuan, the No. 5 main player of the national table tennis men's team, played and drew 2-2 with Tomislav Puka, the main player of the Croatian team, and the prospect of qualifying from the group is worrying.
Before Lin Gaoyuan appeared, the national table tennis Chen Meng, Ma Long, Lin Shidong, Fan Zhendong and Wang Yidi had all won the first round, of which Wang Yidi won 3-1, and the remaining 4 were 4-0.
Lin Gaoyuan's opponent in this round is Puka, who is atypical European style, he is tall but not stout, and the overall style is biased towards the Asian genre, and the first three boards are more delicate, especially on the serve, and his hands are very lively.
Lin Gaoyuan did not qualify for the Incheon Championships, plus he only played one round of singles at the Singapore Grand Slam due to illness and only played one round of group stage at the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, so recently, Lin Gaoyuan has been relatively absent from the tournament in general, and in two and a half months, he has only played 2 official singles matches in total.
Therefore, Lin Gaoyuan should be a certain unfamiliar with the game, but he is also full of hunger and thirst.
In this game, Lin Gaoyuan played a rare rough sense of release in the first two games, he was proactive, and he was not bored at all, and he would shout excitedly after every beautiful score to lift his spirit, and seemed to get rid of the shadow of "Sister Lin".
In the first game, when Lin Gaoyuan was two points behind at the end of the game, he made a decisive move, played a high-quality offensive routine with his backhand speed flow, scored key points in a row, won the first game 12-10, and unlocked the lock.
In the second game, Lin Gaoyuan continued to extend his enthusiasm, he launched with his backhand, adjusted the line with his forehand, and the attack routine became more and more fluent, and Puka began to keep an eye on his high-speed line change, 11-7, Lin Gaoyuan won another game.
In the third game, Puka had no way to retreat, so he could only turn on the whole fight mode, and the two sides played until 10-10, and in the last few points, Puka served to control the situation and pull back a game at 13-11.
In the last game, Puka kept leading, and Lin Gaoyuan tried to catch up in the back, but still lost 8-11. In the end, the two sides fought to a 2-2 draw.
2-2, Lin Gaoyuan's total score was 42-41, and Lin Gaoyuan only won 1 small point, and the situation was very unhappy.
In the next round, Lin Gaoyuan will face Chinese Taipei veteran Zhuang Zhiyuan, Lin Gaoyuan has the upper hand on paper, but he must also attach great importance to Zhuang Zhiyuan's super entanglement ability. Strive to use speed to break down Zhuang Zhiyuan's spirit, but whether he can qualify from the group depends on what kind of result Zhuang Zhiyuan and Puka can achieve.