Table tennis Rio: The top 16 of men's singles was born, the world champion was in the first round, and Tomokazu Zhang was upset

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2024-05-24 09:25Posted in Hunan Sports Creators

On the morning of May 24, Beijing time, the top 16 men's singles of the regular season of table tennis WTT Rio de Janeiro were all born, among which the top seed Hugo (Brazil) easily passed 3-0, the third seed Lin Zhongxun (South Korea), and the fourth seed Hayasuke Togami (Japan) narrowly defeated their opponents 3-2 and won the ticket to the promotion with difficulty.

However, second seed Tomokazu Harimoto (Japan) was upset and reversed on match point, while Sweden's world champion Karlsson was also eliminated in the first round.

Upper Half District

The top seed in the top half of the men's singles is the host country's Hugo, who won the first round with a big victory, sweeping India's Takar 3-0, and will next face Puerto Rico's Afanardo, who knocked him out at last year's World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, for revenge.

Third seed Lim Jong-hoon faced a huge struggle, facing 18-year-old teammate Oh Hyun-sung (son of South Korean Olympic silver medallist Oh Sang-yun) who swept him last year, he came up from 0-2 down and was cornered, but then achieved a shocking comeback, 3-2 to eliminate the opponent, and will next face Brazil's Eric.

World champion Karlsson got off to a bad start and lost 3-1 after four games against Denmark's Linde, which was a huge blow to the Swedish Olympic roster, who will face France's Poray in the next round, and should qualify if he plays normally.

Japan's Yutai Tanaka, who defeated Wang Chuqin in the Asian Championships last year, has passed the test, and he will face Spain's world runner-up Robles in the 1/8 finals, which deserves everyone's attention.

Lower Half Ward

There was a huge upset in the second half of the men's singles, when second seed Tomokazu Zhang collapsed in five games and lost 2-3 to Germany's Menger in the deciding game with match points in hand.

Japan's No. 2 men's table tennis player and national champion Hayasuke Togami also almost collapsed, also playing five games against Brazil's Vito, but he beat the opponent 3-2 and will next face another Brazilian player, Izuca.

South Korea's World Table Tennis Championships men's singles third runner-up Ahn Jae-hyun eliminated Portugal's Monteiro 3-1, and then will face Portugal's Gerardo; Menger's opponent after advancing is France's Ronald; The other 1/8 final will be played between Luxembourg's Luca and Canada's Li Yuanzhang.

At present, it seems that the competition in the men's singles event is indeed very fierce, here Zhang Benzhihe was upset in the WTT Rio regular season, and the Chinese team in the WTT Taiyuan regular season home team lost the foreign war with seven players, and they fell in the qualifying round or the main round.

So who do you think will win the championship in the end? Feel free to leave a message and write your own prediction!

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