On October 13, Beijing time, in the men's singles semifinals of the 2024 Table Tennis Asian Championships G2, national table tennis player Lin Shidong 3-0 and table tennis player Daiden Kazuka, with a score of 12-10, 18-16, 11-2 in three games. After this match, Lin Shidong will compete with Japan's No. 1 Tomokazu Zhang for the men's singles title of this Asian Championships.
Lin Shidong just finished the mixed doubles final more than 10 hours before playing this men's singles semifinal, Lin Shidong/Kuaiman 3-1 Lee Jung-sik/Kim Qin-young (PRK) [9-11,12-10,11-9,15-13], that is to say, Lin Shidong has won the men's team and mixed doubles two championships, and the men's singles is Lin Shidong's third championship in this Asian Championships, and his men's singles has been out.
How tired is Lin Shidong? He has played 14 matches since he arrived in Astana on October 8 until October 12, which means that the men's singles semi-final on October 13 is the 15th match in the last six days, and he beat Daiden Fushitsuka to win 14 of 15 matches, a winning rate of 93.3%.
At the beginning of the first game, the state of Daiden was very good, the 20-year-old world ranked 41 teenager was not afraid of the new ace of national table tennis, he once led 4-3, but Lin Shidong quickly adjusted 8-7 to overtake, and then continued to lead 9-8, Dadeng chased to 10-10, and the key point Lin Shidong won 12-10.
At the beginning of the second game, the two were 1-1, Lin Shidong took the lead 3-2, and Daiden Kazuka equalized 4-4, and then the two entered a stalemate, stalemate to 11-11, 12-12, 13-13, 14-14, 15-15, 16-16, and finally Lin Shidong won 18-16, which was too difficult.
In the third game, Lin Shidong opened directly with a wave of 5-1, and in the second game, the two played 34 points and felt that Dadeng was a little tired, but Lin Shidong had adapted to this high-intensity game in the 15th game of 6 days, Lin Shidong 9-2 directly opened the gap, and finally won 11-2.
Text/Yan Xiaobai: Ping Pong observation