On April 17, Beijing time, the table tennis Macau World Cup came back with bad news, and the 20-year-old Kuo Man defeated Hirata Zhixi 2-2 in the final game of the group stage, but lost by a small score, thus becoming the first athlete to be eliminated from the national table tennis.
Recently, Tian Zhixi has been in very good form, not long ago defeated the Japanese Olympic champion Misei Ito, and this time advanced to the top 16 of the women's singles of the World Cup, and is about to participate in the second stage of the knockout round;
Highlights of the game
Tian Zhixi is a former Chinese athlete, who studied under the famous coach Yin Xiao, and later went abroad to develop into the absolute main force of Korean table tennis, won the women's doubles World Table Tennis Championships, the Asian Games championship, and won Chen Meng and others in singles.
Although the 20-year-old Kuo Man won the main team Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng, and Chen Xingtong, the performance of the foreign war was up and down, and he also lost to the 60-year-old Ni Xialian at the beginning of this year.
The process of the game
After the start of the match, the experienced Tian Zhixi obviously entered the state faster than Kuo Man, and soon achieved an advantage in the score - as a 20-year-old player, Kuo Man had never participated in such a high-level singles event before, and now he met the world's runner-up level celebrity, he was still a little nervous, and soon lost the first game 4-11.
In the second game, Kueman still did not find his form, and fell behind 3-8 at the beginning, on the one hand, it was difficult for him to launch an effective attack, and on the other hand, the defense made frequent mistakes, and then lost 6-11, which was not good.
In the third game, Kuo Man's situation was very unoptimistic, and he soon continued to fall behind, chasing 8 draws and losing 2 points in a row to get the game point by the opponent - at this time, if she loses again, she will be eliminated in advance, but the young player did not give up lightly, but took advantage of Tian Zhixi's eagerness to calmly respond to the battle, and finally scored consecutive points and turned the tables 12-10 with difficulty, thus retaining the hope of promotion.
However, according to the rules, in the fourth game, Kuo Man not only had to win, but also had to win a big victory to advance, and she won 11-4, and the last small score was Tian Zhixi to take the lead, and Kuo Man was eliminated from the game, which is indeed a pity!