Saudi Arabia Grand Slam is a new Grand Slam competition, May 1 and 3 will be the first to compete for the qualifying round, all the Chinese team selected a total of 12 people in the first three days are not any competition, because our ranking is relatively high, so they will start from the main round, in the qualifying round There are also some players in the competition has attracted everyone's attention, especially since this year, many men's and women's players of the Indian team who have caused a lot of trouble to the Chinese team will appear in the qualifying round, and the result is that in the first round of the game, the Indian players have overturned, which can be regarded as the first upset of the qualifying round。
Indian veteran, once a rising talent. The 31-year-old lost to Singapore's 17-year-old rising star Kwok Yong in the first round of qualifying. I believe that this result will be somewhat surprising for fans who are not very familiar with table tennis, because Ghana Sekaran is still a powerful and very characteristic Indian player in Asia, especially in the cognition of many national table tennis fans.
The first is at the 2018 Austrian Open, when he faced the Chinese superstar, 18-year-old Wang Chuqin, who defeated his opponent and gave Wang Chuqin a rare first-round tour. In fact, all Indian players, including him, have a common problem, that is, their granular style of play, which will indeed make many famous players deflated in some time periods, but as long as they adapt to his style of play, in fact, the upper limit of this style of play is not high, which is why the Indian team has so many advantages in this style of play, and after defeating so many famous players, there is still no table tennis power that will adopt this style of play, that is, his style of play can only be regarded as a hidden weapon, and cannot be used as a conventional weapon, so although the Indian team has worked hard to study this style of play, it has always been difficult to make some breakthroughs in the results of the competition。
Ghana's Seckaran is very jumpy in the competition, he won a regional tournament this year, but he was also beaten in the first round of the Asian zone of the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban last year. Facing Guo Yong being eliminated from the tournament should really not be a big accident, but many fans are not very familiar with Guo Yong, and may think that this kid can beat India's former number one player is an underdog, but in fact, Guo Yong is very adaptable to this special style of play in India.
In the Singapore Grand Slam in March, Guo Yong faced India's current first brother Achanta in the first round, and it was also this style of play, and Guo Yong defeated his opponent very easily, so now facing Ghana's Sekaran who is not as strong as Achanta, I think Guo Yong's victory over him is also a relatively normal thing. Overall, however, combined with the world rankings of both sides, the experience of both sides, including recent results, can be attributed to the first upset of a Saudi Grand Slam tournament.
It is worth mentioning that because the Indian team has achieved good results in recent years, this style of play seems to have given Ghanaian Sekaran great confidence, he once threatened to surpass the national table tennis within 20 years, but now he has been slapped in the face.