In the quarter-finals of the ITTF Diamond League T2 competition, Chen Meng unexpectedly met the Japanese team's beautiful dark horse genius Miyu Kato.
Malaysia's T2 arena is more like a ball, the round arena is quite easy to watch, and the dazzling lights and alternative venue equipment make the table tennis game very much like an entertainment.
Kato is 20 years old this year, a red sweatshirt, playing style is light and changeable, and Chen Meng is a powerful actor.
As soon as the game began, Kato frequently scored points with rare forehand side wipes and slashing serves, and Chen Meng was very uncomfortable, and soon lost with a huge margin of 4-11.
In the second set, Chen Meng still did not adapt well to Kato's alternative playing style at the beginning, his adaptability was not enough, he lagged behind the start, and he made a series of mistakes. Thankfully, it was a 4 draw with a serve. During this period, Chen Meng slightly adapted to Kato's slashing serve, and the scene gradually stabilized. Relying on the contest of strength, it is said that this is beneficial to Chen Meng. However, Miyu Kato showed a strong ability to maneuver, and Chen Meng still lost another set at 9-11.
In the third set, the worried Chen Meng faced a grim situation, Kato's playing style was flexible, properly coped, and strange tricks were repeated, while Chen Meng's adaptability was slightly insufficient, and his strong strength could not always find a place to use.
The change in the situation came after the middle innings, as Kato's two slashing serves were directly killed by Chen Mengyi' board, and then the two serves rushed to score, opening the situation at once, and Chen Meng pulled back a set 11-4.
In the fourth set, Chen Meng inexplicably ate two slashing serves! Chen Meng, who was 0-2 behind the start, actually sent his opponent 1 point with a mistake! It can be seen that the psychological pressure is huge! Chen Meng, who was 3-6 behind, faced Kato's changeable playing style, especially the serve and forehand wipe, which was very uncomfortable, felt empty in his heart, too many mistakes, and finally lost 5-11 in a vacuum.
After that, entering the 5-point system of the game, this situation is extremely severe for Chen Meng!
Chen Meng was on the 5-point scale and won each one-point game with ease, easily winning 5-2! Although Oita Chen Meng was 2-3 behind, he seemed to see a little hope.
In the sixth set, Chen Meng had the advantage in the opening, scoring consecutive points on the serve, 4-2! It was about to take the equaliser, but in the face of Kato's stubborn resistance and change, Chen Meng made a fatal mistake, 3-4!
Marlene called a pause in time. After the suspension, Chen Meng still lost all his achievements, and was chased by Kato to overtake, and finally eliminated 5-4!
Looking at Chen Meng's performance this time, we can see many problems: especially there are many problems with receiving the ball, the lack of means to attack, the lack of excitement, the lack of belief in winning, and the extreme incompatibility in the face of the opponent's various non-standard ball paths. It seems to be losing to the opponent, but in fact it is losing to yourself.
The last time Chen Meng also lost to Ishikawa Yoshijun, who had never lost in a good situation, this time he was also strongly reversed by Kato in the sixth set, which was very promising. This shows that Chen Meng still has a lot of homework to make up.