On April 18, Beijing time, the 2024 Table Tennis Macau World Cup entered the knockout stage, and today's games will all be contested for the top 8, with 11 national table tennis players participating in the knockout round and 6 men's singles all advancing.
Today's first game is Lin Gaoyuan, against the European star Darko, ranked 13th in the world, the first time the two sides met, Darko was originally a strong backhand, and now the forehand is also very good, more and more comprehensive, there is a certain threat to the national table tennis, last year defeated Liang Jingkun, this year with Fan Zhendong after the defeat, won two European Cup men's singles championships. After a draw in the first round of the group, Lin Gaoyuan swept the second game to win 4-0.
At the beginning of the game, Lin Gaoyuan led 5-0, entered the state quickly, and launched quickly, Darko appeared to make more mistakes and did not attack, but Lin Gaoyuan's subsequent mistakes also increased, and he was chased to 7-6, but fortunately, he readjusted and won 11-7.
In the second game, Lin Gaoyuan still led 4-0 at the beginning, broke through from Darko's mid-game, and then Dakko chased to 5-5, Lin Gaoyuan's hair extension made consecutive mistakes, and Lin Gaoyuan entered the holding Lin Gaoyuan faster, played very actively, led again 8-5, maintained the lead, and won another game with 11-8.
In the third game, Darko led 4-1 at the beginning, strengthened some changes and hitting quality, and also had some changes in the speed of pulling the ball, Lin Gaoyuan kept chasing the score 6-7, but some offensive mistakes, Darko took the initiative to receive the serve, 9-6 lead, Lin Gaoyuan scored 5 points in a row, 11-9 reversal to win.
In the fourth game, Lin Gaoyuan took a 5-2 lead steadily, and the next two attacks were not killed, Dakko took the opportunity to chase 6-6, Lin Gaoyuan's mistakes increased, and finally Dakko pulled back 11-7.
In the fifth game, Darko started 4-0, Lin Gaoyuan did not adjust, there were still many mistakes, some offenses did not score points, 2-8 behind, the rhythm was still relatively chaotic, and the serve and attack were also wrong, and Darko pulled another game 11-4.
The sixth game started with a stalemate of 3-3, Darko's continuous attack took a 6-3 lead, Lin Gaoyuan also chased 6-6 through the attack, and the whole state and momentum played again, won 11-8, eliminated Darko with a big score of 4-2, and took the lead in advancing to the top 8.
In a women's singles game, Wang Yidi lost to Zhang Benmeihe 1-4, 10-12, 11-6, 8-11, 6-11, 14-16, the first game and the fifth game were 2 points lost, did not grasp the key points, and the ability to grasp was not as good as the teenager Zhang Benmeihe, Wang Yidi had a confrontation with her last year, and won 3-2 in five games, but Zhang Benmeihe improved greatly.
Wang Yidi did not play well in this game, and the offense and holding did not play very well, Zhang Benmeihe defeated the main force of national table tennis for the first time, she previously lost to Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, and now broke through Wang Yidi.
For Wang Yidi, since last year, he has lost to Hina Hayata, Miyu Kihara, and Miyu Hirano, and lost to Miyu Hirano again this year, and now he has lost Miwa Zhangmoto, and these four people are Japan's Paris Olympics team, Miyu Kihara is a P card, and he will lose when he meets Japan, and it seems that his mentality has been affected, and his ideological baggage is too big, resulting in not playing at the level.
Now Wang Yidi is not a breakthrough in technology, but needs to break through the confidence in Japanese players, losing again and again, because of the successive losses to Japan, resulting in the failure to compete in the Paris Olympics singles, after losing this game, 3000 points will be deducted, it can be said that the Paris Olympic team is completely lost.