On May 8, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam broke out again, Olympic champion Fan Zhendong appeared on the stage and faced off with the German star Francesca, as a result, Fan Zhendong was overturned in a 2-0 lead, lost 3 games in a row, wasted 2 match points and was reversed, becoming the fifth national table tennis main force to lose foreign wars after Liang Jingkun, Wang Manyu, Lin Gaoyuan, and Ma Long.
At present, the national table tennis has ended all the competitions in the third round of men's singles, and only two athletes Wang Chuqin and Lin Shidong have been promoted. See below for a detailed breakdown of the battle.
Highlights of the game
Francesca is a rare player with a very outstanding record against the national table tennis in the foreign association, who has defeated our five main players Ma Long, Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, and defeated Ma Long again at the WTT Singapore Grand Slam in March this year, but he always has occasional upsets and is difficult to last, so he has long missed the ranks of the top two main players of the German men's team.
However, being able to win so many national table tennis players is enough to show that Francesca's technical ceiling is still quite high, and no one can predict when such athletes will go crazy, so Fan Zhendong and Coach Wang Hao will definitely not dare to be careless in this battle.
The process of the game
After the start of the first game, Fan Zhendong showed high morale when he came up, constantly mobilizing his body on the court, while Francesca seemed a little slow to heat up, and soon lost 3 points in a row, and then kept in the position of chasing points, and finally collapsed after only 4 points, Fan Zhendong won a game very easily.
In the second game, Fan Zhendong still had an advantage at the beginning, although Francesca fought back, but he was still constantly beaten back by Fan Zhendong, and the quality of the attack was obviously attenuated, and the result was won by Fan Zhendong 11-4 for the second time.
In the third game, Francesca successfully counterattacked, using his powerful arc ball to force the defense, and then pulled back a city with 11-6, and then the fourth game was full of momentum, constantly suppressing Fan Zhendong's success, and soon got as many as 4 game points at 10-6, although the opponent recovered 2 points, but finally won 11-8, and the game was dragged into the tiebreaker.
In the fifth game, the two did not give in to each other, Fan Zhendong once fell behind but overtook 10-8 to get the game point, but then was chased by the opponent to 10 draws, and then lost 2 points in a row, so he was eliminated from the game and stopped in the top 16 of men's singles.