At present, the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam competition, which has attracted much attention, has officially kicked off, and because the 12 main players in the national table tennis competition are all ranked relatively high, they do not need to participate in the group stage in the past two days. Therefore, for Ma Long and others, they have been completely waiting for work in the past few days, waiting for the arrival of the follow-up opponents of the foreign association.
In the case of all the main forces of national table tennis, after the end of the first day of the game, the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam competition also broke out the first very big upset. The 31-year-old world champion was swept by the prodigy of '06 and eventually lost to the first round. That player is the former Indian brother Ghana Sekaran.
The two sides of this match are India's Gana Sekaran and Singapore's 06 prodigy Guo Yong. Judging from the resumes of both sides, the qualifications of the young Singaporean player are certainly not as good as the Indian goalkeeper. You must know that Ghanasekaran has performed very strongly in the past two years, and in the previous WTT Challenger, he has won the men's doubles and men's singles world championships one after another, and he has a lot of experience in the field.
In addition, in the 2018 Austrian Open, Ghana Sekaran also had an upset of 4-1, defeating Wang Chuqin, the world No. 1 in national table tennis, with a big score, which was the biggest upset of the game at that time. On the other hand, Ghanasekaran also unexpectedly defeated Japan's Tomokazu Haramoto in the Asian Championships. The successive elimination of two Chinese and Japanese table tennis masters is enough to see that it is not simple to see that Ghanasekaran is not simple.
So judging from the overall resume of Ghanasekaran, he is very experienced and very powerful. As a young player, Guo Yong does not have an advantage in all aspects. As a result, I didn't expect that after the game started, the situation on the field was completely different from what the fans expected.
Judging from the performance of the whole game, Ghana Sekaran looked very passive from the start. Perhaps because of the slow heat, he quickly lost the first game 8-11. Although he quickly adjusted his state to recover the score of a game, it was a pity that Ghananaseca did not take advantage of the victory to chase after it, and then the next two games completely collapsed, Singapore's Guo Yong did not leave any chance for the senior, and finally won the game with a big score of 3-1, while the Indian star was defeated and suffered a day trip.
In this way, the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam competition also broke out the first big upset, which is undoubtedly an important reminder for teams, including national table tennis, not to underestimate the enemy.
After the game, many fans were quite surprised by this result. There is no doubt that Guo Yong's performance exceeded the expectations of many national table tennis fans, and it can be seen that it is really terrifying. For Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong of national table tennis, they also have to be careful of Guo Yong, a young player.