On November 2, Beijing time, the ITTF Slovenia Open was underway. In this open tournament, Liu Guoliang's coaching team arranged 7 main players to participate, including world champions Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin and others. Liu Guoliang's coaching team hopes that they will improve their competitive status and better prepare for the World Table Tennis Championships through the open competition.
Especially the world champion Lin Gaoyuan, if Lin Gaoyuan wins the men's singles championship, then his world ranking will surpass Japan's famous Zhang Benzhihe, who is the second seed in the men's singles of the World Table Tennis Championships, and the world's first Fan Zhendong to defend the upper and lower half of the zone. In this open tournament, all the Japanese and Korean celebrities were absent, and the Japanese side arranged for 6 new generation young players to participate.
The first to start is the men's singles qualification competition, the national table tennis world champion Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin directly advanced to the main competition, and is a seeded player. Liu Dingshuo, the men's singles runner-up at the National Games, and Zhou Qihao, the men's singles champion in the simulation tournament, need to participate in the qualifying round. Zhou Qihao and Liu Dingshuo had a bye in the first round of the qualifiers and directly advanced to the men's singles second round of the qualifiers.
In the second round of the men's singles qualification round, national table tennis star Zhou Qihao will play against Belgium's Olaf Kosoloski, and the men's singles runner-up Liu Dingshuo will face Croatia's Philip zeliko. The latter Croatian star is very strong, just defeated the German star Francesca in the Tunisia Challenge, so Liu Dingshuo still can not take it lightly. Although Liu Dingshuo played well in the National Games, he has a mediocre record in international competitions and hopes to prove his strength through the open tournament of this station.
In the first round of the men's singles qualifier, Japan's talented teenager turned out to be the first player of Japan, 14-year-old Matsushima Huikong, played against India's Susmi Sriram. In the first set, Matsushima won the first set easily 11:5. In the second set, the Indian players still made a lot of mistakes, and Matsushima Huikong easily locked in the victory 11:3. In the third set, the Indian player stepped up the fight, and Matsushima Keiko withstood the pressure and locked up the victory 11:8.
In this way, Japan's 14-year-old talented teenager Matsushima Huikong defeated india with an aggregate score of 3:0 and easily advanced to the second round of the men's singles qualifier. Although he is only 14 years old this year, his competitive status and experience are already very rich, and he has participated in the ITTF Tour many times and has a very good record. Compared with the new generation of national table tennis players, Matsushima Huikong has represented Japan in the international arena.