2 places will be decided in the top 4 of men's singles! The 19-year-old national table tennis player made history, Lin Shidong won a big victory, or against Wang Chuqin. The first three matches of the men's singles quarterfinals of the 2024 WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam have ended, with the 19-year-old national table tennis player making history and reaching the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career, while South Korea's Jang Woo-jin defeated French rising star Felix 4-1, and Francesca swept teammate Qiu Dang 4-0.
In this competition, the national table tennis men's team has a total of 6 participants, but in the previous game, Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun, Ma Long, and Fan Zhendong were defeated in the foreign war one after another, and only Wang Chuqin and Lin Shidong reached the top 8, but both of them were in the upper half, which means that the national table tennis has no chance to win the championship and runner-up. In the 1/4 finals, the 19-year-old national table tennis player Lin Shidong played against the South Korean player Zhao Dacheng, judging from the strength of the two on paper, Lin Shidong did not have much advantage, so this game will be an encounter. In the first game, Zhao Dacheng fought fiercely as soon as he came up, attacking with all his might, leading 5-3, Lin Shidong gradually strengthened his offensive after adapting to the opponent's style of play, and overtook 8-7 at the end of the game, and then Lin Shidong scored 3 points in a row and won a game 11-7. In the second game, both sides made some mistakes in the opening stage, but Zhao Dacheng took the lead to find his touch and led 6-3, after which Zhao Dacheng maintained the lead and quickly pulled back a game 11-5.
In the third game, the two sides played fiercely in the opening stage, when the score was tied at 3-3, Lin Shidong scored 3 points in a row to take the lead, and then Lin Shidong continued to attack, playing a wave of 5-0, 8-3 to expand the lead, and soon won another game 11-4. In the fourth game, Lin Shidong led 4-1, and then Lin Shidong continued to attack, and the difference between the two sides became bigger and bigger, and Lin Shidong won the game 11-5. In the fifth game, Zhao Dacheng fought against the water, the competition between the two sides in the opening stage was still fierce, when Lin Shidong led 5-4, Lin Shidong called a timeout, the game restarted, Lin Shidong played more and more bravely, and soon locked the victory with 11-5, thus breaking into the top 4 with a total score of 4-1, creating his best record in the Grand Slam arena. In the next semi-finals, Lin Shidong will face the winner between Wang Chuqin and Grote, and the possibility of the two national table tennis meeting in the semifinals is still relatively high.
In addition, South Korean star Zhang Yuzhen against the French star Felix, the two sides are still more intense, the first game, Zhang Yuzhen won 12-10, the second game, Zhang Yuzhen after a struggle, won another game with 11-8, the third game, Felix pulled back a game with 11-6, the fourth game, Felix suddenly collapsed, lost 6 points in a row, and soon lost another game 7-11, in the fifth game, Zhang Yuzhen quickly locked the win with 11-7, thus winning with a total score of 4-1. Qiu Dang and Francesca staged a German civil war, and in the end, Francesca won four games in a row 11-7, 12-10, 11-7, 11-5, and won 4-0 on aggregate to successfully advance to the semifinals. This article was originally written by Xiao Lizi, please do not plagiarize or carry it.