Table tennis Macau World Cup: The first top 10 player in the world is out, and Qiu Dang is beaten 0-11 collapse
On April 17, Beijing time, the table tennis Macao World Cup ushered in the last day of the group stage, the German European champion Qiu Dang appeared on the stage, and the Japanese national champion Hayasuke Togami competed for the qualification of the group, as a result, the last round of upset and Egyptian player Saleh drew 2-2 Qiu Dang was brutally attacked, the big score was 1-3 defeat, the single game collapsed 0-11, and Hayasuke Togami advanced to the men's singles round of 16.
Before the start of this competition, Qiu Dang's teammates Bol, Ocharov, Francesca, and Firus withdrew one after another, and now Qiu Dang is also powerless and has become the first top 10 player in the world to go out, which is indeed embarrassing - please see below for details.
Highlights of the game
Qiu Dang and Hayasuke Togami are both strong athletes in foreign associations, the former is the first Chinese-born direct men's singles champion in the history of the European Table Tennis Championships, and the latter has defeated Tomokazu Zhang and others many times and won the men's singles championship of the Japanese National Championships twice.
In terms of international performance, Qiu Dang is clearly more outstanding, having only beaten the national table tennis mainstay Liang Jingkun in January this year, and is currently ranked 10th in the world, while Hayasuke Togami is only ranked 25th. However, in this World Cup, Qiu Dang drew 2-2 with Saleh in the first round, and Hayasuke Togami defeated Saleh 3-1, so the pressure was on the German team, and Qiu Dang had to beat the Japanese national champion if he wanted to advance, and it was useless to draw.
The process of the game
After the start of the game, the two athletes got started very quickly, relatively speaking, Hayasuke Togami had a better mentality, roaring on the field and constantly cheering himself up, while Qiu Dang was at a disadvantage in the score, naturally it was under a lot of pressure, and he was overtaken soon after taking the lead at the beginning, and after the middle game, he was defeated like a mountain, and his mistakes flew all over the sky, and finally lost a city 5-11, the situation was not good.
In the second game, Qiu Dang still played very passively, but Hayasuke Togami also began to be in a hurry, and as a result, he lost a lot of balls, but Qiu Dang seized the opportunity and won 11-7, and the two sides returned to the same running line.
In the third game, Qiu Dang gradually found his state, using techniques such as straight shooting and horizontal hitting to successfully break the defense in the early stage, but after the lead, there was conservatism, and the result was chased to 4 draws, the head coach of the German team, the 1998 World Cup men's singles champion Roscoff immediately called a timeout to adjust, and after returning to the court, Qiu Dang once achieved a reversal, but then was taken by the opponent to get the game point, if you lose again, the defeat is decided.
Faced with the dominant situation, the Japanese team also used the right to pause, but then Hayasuke Togami was successfully chased to 10 draws by Qiu Dang. At the critical moment, Togami Hayabusa supplemented by a stronger near-stage attack to win, and finally won 12-10.
According to the rules of this World Cup, even if Hayasuke Togami loses one more game, the score in the group stage is 5-4 ahead of Qiu Dang, so he got the ticket to advance in advance, so in the next fourth game, Qiu Dang had no desire to win at all, and he lost a mess when he came up, and was swept directly with a 0-11 defeat, thus ending the whole game.
So far, Hayabusa Togami has qualified for the second stage of the knockout round with a record of two consecutive wins in the group stage, while Qiu Dang has not been able to pass the test, and he is looking forward to his performance in the next match.