On August 1, Beijing time, all the semi-finals of the men's and women's singles table tennis at the Paris Olympics will be produced. The men's singles competition has already produced two places, Brazil veteran Hugo has a place in the semi-finals, and the first in the second half is France's young Lebrun, who defeated the super dark horse of the last Tokyo Olympics 4-3, and won the bronze medal Lin Yunru to advance to the semi-finals. This set of duels was extremely exciting. It was only in the seventh game that Lebrun won a thrilling victory and secured a ticket to the semifinals, and he also set the best record in the history of France in table tennis men's singles.
Lebrun is still doing quite well at home. At present, Lebrun is ranked fifth in the world, which is the highest-ranked player except for the four players in the national table tennis team who participated in this Olympic Games. And Lin Yunru's strength is also very strong. Although the game was played 4:3, the overall game process was relatively fast, the two sides were basically able to distinguish the winners and losers in the first three boards, both tried to take the initiative to attack, actively started, the game was played extremely passionately, Lin Yunru, who has always been calm and introverted, couldn't help shouting two voices in this game, which is very rare in his game, which shows how difficult this game is.
In addition to the momentum of this game Lebrun Jr. is better, Lin Yunru in the game forehand offensive mistakes are relatively many, but also gave the opponent a lot of opportunities, although in the first two games have two games behind can save the game point, but in the overall case of too many mistakes, or finally lost to Lebrun Jr., there is no way to two consecutive Olympic Games, hitting the podium is indeed a pity.
Lin Yunru is still very popular in our mainland, and because he is a Chinese player, there are still a lot of national table tennis fans in this game, and they are also cheering for him, and it is indeed a pity that he is out. But on the whole, Lin Yunru's exit is good news for Fan Zhendong, the only remaining national table tennis player.
The winner of Lebrun and Lin Yunru will face the winner of Fan Zhendong and Zhang Ben, and if you choose one of these two opponents, it is clear that France's little Lebrun is a more popular opponent for national table tennis. Because Lebrun has never defeated the main players of national table tennis since his debut, it can be seen that his style of play is not particularly effective in front of national table tennis, and national table tennis has studied him thoroughly. Of course, Wang Chuqin also lost to Moregard, who also did not lose to the front, but these are more affected by emotional factors, I think from a technical and tactical point of view, playing Lebrun is obviously better than playing Lin Yunru, and Fan Zhendong will have a greater grasp.
In his career, Lin Yunru has defeated the other five main players of the Chinese team in addition to Liang Jingkun, including Fan Zhendong. So from this level, it is indeed good news for Fan Zhendong, but the premise is that Fan Zhendong must pass Zhang Benzhihe first.