On April 17, Beijing time, the table tennis Macao World Cup ushered in the battle of the world championship, and the main force of national table tennis Lin Gaoyuan appeared on the stage and played against the veteran Zhuang Zhiyuan of Chinese Taipei.
Prior to this, Lin Gaoyuan and Croatian player Pucar played a 2-2 draw, and then Pucar defeated Zhuang Zhiyuan 3-1, and now Lin Gaoyuan not only won Zhuang Zhiyuan, but also won one more game than Pucar, thus becoming the first place in the group and advancing to the second stage of the men's singles round of 16 knockout round.
Highlights of the game
Zhuang Zhiyuan, born in 1981, is a well-known evergreen tree in the table tennis world, who has fought against several generations of national table tennis and won many victories, although he is now 42 years old, he is still a top athlete in the foreign association.
Lin Gaoyuan had a bad start in this group stage, only drawing 2-2 with Croatian player Pucar, and Zhuang Zhiyuan lost 1-3 in the battle with Pucar, so Lin Gaoyuan must win at least 3-1 against Zhuang Zhiyuan to be a small score with Pucar, and a 2-2 draw will also be out, as for 1-3 and 0-4, not to mention, the pressure is not small.
The process of the game
After the start of the game, Lin Gaoyuan took the lead in launching and suppressed the veteran with fast and slow in the first game - Zhuang Zhiyuan is also a speed-type athlete near Taiwan, and his impact when he was young was not inferior to Lin Gaoyuan, but now after all, he is 43 years old, and his reaction ability is declining in all aspects, and he still struggled to face Lin Gaoyuan, who is 14 years younger than him, and finally lost a game 4-11.
In the second game, Zhuang Zhiyuan was even more defeated, and was beaten powerless as soon as he came on the court, and soon fell behind 0-8, and finally collapsed 3-11: At this time, Zhuang Zhiyuan was out of the game in advance, and the next thing is mainly to see who can pass Lin Gaoyuan and Pucar.
In the third game, Zhuang Zhiyuan still couldn't find too many ways to win, and wanted to use his near-platform backhand advantage to break the defense but couldn't keep up with Lin Gaoyuan's rhythm, and other technical links such as forehand were not upside down, and they couldn't take advantage of it at this time, plus Lin Gaoyuan also had a left-handed line advantage, so Zhuang Zhiyuan played very passively, and then lost 7-11.
In the fourth game, Zhuang Zhiyuan played a good state, but was chased by Lin Gaoyuan to 10 draws when he held the game point, and then lost 2 points in a row and lost 10-12, so the big score was 0-4 and was swept away, and Lin Gaoyuan advanced to the top 16.