On the evening of April 17, Beijing time, Fan Zhendong, the national table tennis Olympic champion, appeared on the stage to face Huang Zhenting, a famous player of the Hong Kong team, China.
Fan Zhendong's performance has not been very satisfactory recently, losing to Wang Chuqin, Lin Shidong, Hugo and others in internal and external battles - as a four-time winner of the World Cup men's singles, I look forward to him being able to play brilliantly in the next knockout rounds, and strive to create a new record of five crowns!
See below for a detailed breakdown of the battle.
Highlights of the game
Huang Zhenting is a rare straight shooting master in today's table tennis world, once ranked in the top ten in the world, won Xu Xin and other famous players, but as a veteran who is about to turn 33 years old, his state has long been much worse than before, not to mention that this time he is still facing the core of the national team, and it is generally believed that the probability of Fan Zhendong advancing will be greater.
In the previous group stage, Fan Zhendong won Germany's Duda 4-0, while Huang Zhenting lost to Duda 1-3, so Fan Zhendong is already in a good situation, and Huang Zhenting has to win Fan Zhendong 4-0 to have the possibility of qualifying, which is too difficult and difficult to play.
The process of the game
After the start of the game, Fan Zhendong used the advantage of the horizontal shot to deal with the straight shot "two sides and one side", suppressed Huang Zhenting's backhand, mobilized the opponent's forehand, or even if he couldn't move, he could win the initiative even if he couldn't move and play a long ball directly, although Huang Zhenting kept catching up, but he was not an opponent at all in the second half, and Fan Zhendong won the first game 11-5.
In fact, at this time, Fan Zhendong had already qualified in advance, because he had defeated Duda 4-0 before, and Huang Zhenting lost to Duda 1-3, and Huang Zhenting had no hope of advancing unless he swept Fan Zhendong 4-0.
In the second game, Fan Zhendong played obviously very lax, although he once led but was quickly reversed, Huang Zhenting let go and enjoyed the game, and then pulled back a city 11-8. In the third game, Fan Zhendong regained his strength and won 11-8. In the fourth game, Fan Zhendong did not give Huang Zhenting another chance, and finally ended the battle 11-7, with a big score of 3-1 to lock up the victory and successfully advance to the top 16 of men's singles.
At present, it seems that the new competition system is indeed easy for many athletes to slack off in the final round of the group, because there are very many people who advance or go out in advance, and it is already known that the actual combat significance of continuing the result is not very large, and it is worth reflecting on and summarizing by the ITTF.