On May 5th, Beijing time, the women's singles match of the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam was in full swing, and Qian Tianyi, the quasi-main star of national table tennis, ushered in his debut, and the opponent was Ni Xialian, the world champion from Luxembourg.
Off-court coach Xu Hui gave good guidance and made a great contribution to Qian Tianyi's reversal! Although we won the ball, throughout the game, Qian Tianyi's handling of granular play was obviously not up to par.
As we all know, Qian Tianyi is the mainstream playing style of two-sided reverse glue horizontal shooting, and occupies the advantage of left-handed playing line. Ni Xialian is 63 years old this year, and her forehand is rubber, and her backhand long rubber is standing on the pile. In previous international competitions, Ni Xialian had defeated Wang Yidi, Kuo Man and other famous table tennis players.
One of the more interesting scenes in this competition is that Ni Xialian and her husband (off-court guidance) communicate with each other, and the national table tennis side is Coach Xu Hui (Wang Manyu's head coach) as Qian Tianyi, this Xu Hui coach does have two brushes, the disciples are not flustered when they are behind, and they encourage Qian Tianyi vigorously, which can indeed play a role in stabilizing the morale of the army!
After the start of the game, Qian Tianyi and Ni Xialian tested each other, the score was inseparable, Ni Xialian's inverted board play made the rotation changes very rich, Qian Tianyi couldn't eat the rotation, and the mistakes began to increase, Ni Xialian successfully picked up the leak in the second half of the game, and got off to a good start with 15-13, Qian Tianyi looked very passive.
In the second game, Qian Tianyi still couldn't figure out the magic rotation of the old-timers, and unnecessary mistakes flew all over the sky, the score went from 0-0 to 9-9, and the key ball Ni Xialian scored 2 points in a row, and won 11-9 again, Qian Tianyi's situation was already very passive.
In the third game, Qian Tianyi could only fight to the end, starting 3-1 to 5-1, and then Ni Xialian used the spin change to chase the score again, 6-9 behind in the end game, and then scored another 1 point, 7-9 when he was behind, he directly forced out Qian Tianyi's pause, and after coming back, Qian Tianyi scored, 10-7 to get the game point, and then Ni Xialian returned the ball out of bounds again, and Qian Tianyi pulled back a city with 11-7.
In the fourth game, Qian Tianyi somewhat adapted to Ni Xialian's rotation, and once took an 8-4 lead in the middle game, but then Ni Xialian strengthened the control of the first three boards, and chased the score to 9-9 in the second half, and the key ball old-timers scored 10-9 to take the lead in getting the match point, Qian Tianyi chased the score, and after 10-10, Qian Tianyi scored 2 points in a row, and 12-10 dragged the game into the tiebreaker.
In the fifth game, both of them had no way out, Ni Xialian tried to make the tactics simple, and Qian Tianyi scored by holding each other, with a score of 2-2, and then Qian Tianyi used the spin to completely control the game, and finally locked the victory 11-7.