The first round of the men's singles of the WTT Challenge, which is being held in Tunisia, broke out of the ground, and the Portuguese star Freitas, who was once the world's top 10 opponent of national table tennis, unexpectedly lost 2-3 (9-11/12-10/11-11/11-11/7-11/7-11) to France's Englees, who was only ranked 198th in the world, and Freitas inevitably lost despite giving eggs to his opponents in the third set, becoming the biggest player out of the men's singles first round as the No. 3 seed.
Portugal's brother Freitas is a veteran of international table tennis for more than 10 years, the peak of the moment once raised the individual singles world ranking to 7th, he and Apolyonia, Monteiro composed of the Portuguese three musketeers, is the recent European Championships, The European Championship favorite, but also from Pol, Ochalov to grab the European Championship team championship.
Because the competitions of European players in the past two years are significantly more than in Asia, including Germany, Russia, etc. have their own professional leagues, and the season is very long, many European athletes train together all year round, familiar with each other, and there is a possibility of upsetting frequent competitions. The Tunisia Challenge Frista as the No. 3 seed to participate in the men's singles competition, the first round of opponents is the world ranked 198 french player Englees, originally a game without suspense, who knows that the gap between the strength of the two sides is not as large as the world ranking shows, entangled to the decider, but the French player staged a good play to win the strong.
The first 2 innings of the two sides of the score is very tight, both are 2 points to win a game, in the 3rd set, Freitas fully prevailed, the score is getting bigger and bigger, Engles does not have any countermeasures, all links can not open the situation, and finally Freitas played a rare score of 11-0, and then the 4th set began to incorporate Engles' rhythm, control the first three boards to increase the mobile phone meeting, and finally took away the victory with two 11-7, eliminating the European champions.
Because the national table tennis, Japanese table tennis and other teams that are expected to show their fists in the World Table Tennis Championships are training, the low-level events will not travel long distances to participate in the competition and it is not worth the loss, the lineup of this Tunisia Challenge is not strong enough, the top 4 seeds in the men's singles are Francesca in Germany, Aruna in Nigeria, Freitas in Portugal, and Gardos in Austria, and the top 4 seeds in the women's singles are Polkanova of Austria, Diaz of Puerto Rico, Yang Xiaoxin of Monaco, and Nina of Germany. Germany's Francesca, Ferros and Monaco's Yang Xiaoxin are expected to win the final men's and women's singles titles.
The national table tennis club chose to participate in the Slovenia Challenge before the World Table Tennis Championships, and the lineup of participants was also based on the inspection of the World Table Tennis Championships lineup, and Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Zhou Qihao, and Wang Yidi, who had already been shortlisted for the World Table Tennis Championships, had already registered to participate, and Liu Dingshuo and Liu Weishan would also participate together. Slovenia station to examine the status of young players, improve the world rankings, especially Liang Jingkun, and strive to increase in points, singles rankings surpass South Korea's Zhang Yuzhen, as the No. 8 seed in Houston is the desired harvest of this trip.