The first round of the 2024 Saudi Arabia Grand Slam men's singles has all ended, and the six players representing the national table tennis have performed well, and all of them have advanced to the second round. The 16th finals were in full swing, Lin Shidong met the German player Firus, although the latter is not very famous, but it is a dark horse in this event, in the first round of facing the English star Pitchford, Philus swept directly to advance, showing a good state and competitiveness, plus he has never fought with Lin Shidong before, before the game fans have shouted Xiao Xiaolin, must be ready to fight a tough battle! After the game started, Lin Shidong won two games in a row and took the lead in getting the match point, just when the fans thought he could win easily, Firus showed the strength of the dark horse, won two games in a row and saw the hope of reversal, but fortunately, Lin Shidong withstood the pressure in the deciding game and finally won 3-2 with difficulty!
After the start of the first game, the chipper Filus wanted to use patient defense to deal with Lin Shidong, but Lin Shidong, who already had enough experience in the competition, knew very well how to deal with the chipping style of play, through the change of receiving the serve, constantly restricting the opponent at a large angle on the court, forcing Ferus to constantly withdraw the ball, so as to win more opportunities for himself to kill the two bottom corners, after playing his own offensive threat, Lin Shidong made the opponent powerless, and directly won a good start with a disparity score of 11-1.
Filus, who was defeated in the first game, insisted on his own chipping style of play in the second game, and obviously increased his active attack, and his sharp backhand was quick to tear, allowing him to take a 3-1 lead in the opening stage, but after Lin Shidong strengthened his control of the hair extension, Philus returned to the situation of being able to defend passively, and the same as the first game, relying on flexible line changes, Lin Shidong quickly played a wave, and overtook the score to 7-5 in the middle game, but continuous mistakes allowed Philus to seize the opportunity to get the game point at 10-7, but fortunately, Lin Shidong found his feeling in time and won another game 12-10, the first to get the match point of this game.
Filus wasted game points in the second game in a row, failed to equalize the big score, and did not affect his mentality, in the third game that could not be lost, he still played patiently one ball at a time, and took a 4-1 lead in the opening stage as he wished, but Lin Shidong, who was full of confidence, quickly forced Filus to the far platform again by strengthening the control and rotation of the first three boards, and then used a very high success rate to grab sideways in a row, and overtook the score to 6-5。
In the fourth game, Lin Shidong did not give the opponent any more chances, and used a coherent attack to take the lead in the score, but Philus, who fought with his back, once overtook the score to 8-6 after strengthening the fight, and equalized the score with 11-8.
After the two of them bit the score to 4 draws in the deciding game, Lin Shidong made consecutive mistakes to send points, allowing Filus to take the lead in getting the match point at the end of the game, fortunately, at the decisive moment, Lin Shidong withstood the pressure and turned the tables 13-11 against the wind, and eliminated the strongest dark horse with difficulty, and in the next round of the men's singles quarterfinals, Lin Shidong will have a move with the Iranian monster player Alameyan, who eliminated Liang Jingkun in this round, looking forward to Lin Shidong being able to avenge the big fat!