On July 6, Beijing time, the men's singles semifinals of the table tennis WTT Bangkok Star Tournament were all born, and Lin Gaoyuan, a national table tennis player in the first half of the region, continued to break through alone, becoming the last hope of the Chinese team to win the championship, and then will face South Korea's World Table Tennis Championships men's singles third runner-up Ahn Jae-hyun in the semifinals; In the second half of the region, the two national table tennis rivals Tomokazu Changmoto (Japan) and Lin Yunru (Chinese Taipei) meet, or a fierce battle will break out.
Judging from the comparison of strength and the recent encounters, Lin Gaoyuan and Zhang Benzhihe have a relatively greater chance of winning, and there is a high probability that the final will break out again Sino-Japanese showdown, but they may not be eliminated, and no one dares to say that they can win steadily! See below for a detailed breakdown of the battle.
In this competition, only Lin Gaoyuan and Chen Xingtong signed up for the singles event, because Chen Xingtong had been upset and lost to South Korean player Xu Xiaoyuan, so only Lin Gaoyuan had a chance to impact the championship.
In the first two rounds of the men's singles competition, Lin Gaoyuan played bravely, swept Chinese Taipei player Feng Yixin and Hong Kong, China's first brother Huang Zhenting 3-0 in a row, and then met the impact of Chinese Taipei player Liao Zhenting in the quarterfinals, but finally won 3-1, thus getting the ticket to the semifinals, and has not yet met foreign opponents.
Also in the top half of the promotion of the athlete is the South Korean team's lone seedling Ahn Jae-hyun, after teammates Jang Woo-jin, Cho Dae-sung, Lim Jong-hoon, Lee Sang-so and others have been out, Ahn Jae-hyun successfully broke into the top eight, and then fought in 5 games, 3-2 narrowly defeated Chinese Taipei world champion Zhuang Zhiyuan, and will next compete with Lin Gaoyuan.
Ahn Jae-hyun's teammate, South Korean star Lim Jong-hoon, lost 2 games and won 2 more games in the 1/4 finals, but in the deciding game, he still lost to Tomokazu Zhang by 2 points, and it was useless to save match points, and finally the Japanese player narrowly won 3-2 to advance to the semifinals.
The final ticket to the Men's Singles semi-finals belonged to Chinese Taipei's Lin Yunru, who went 3-0 against Japan's Yukiya Uda and will face Tomokazu Changmoto.
Prior to this, Lim Gaoyuan and Ahn Jae-hyun had played each other twice, and both of them were victorious, but both happened in 2019; As for Zhang Benzhihe and Lin Yunru, they have won and lost each other in international competitions before, but Zhang Benzhihe has four wins and one loss, and he has a clear advantage, and he has won both meetings this year, the most recent one happened on June 1, so he will obviously be more confident.
So can Lin Gaoyuan and Zhang Benzhihe meet in the final? Let's wait and see!