As the WTT Slovenia tournament enters its second matchday, Zhou Qihao, who has already been named to the Houston World Table Tennis Championships squad, also ushered in his first singles match against left-handed Kosorrowski from Belgium.
In the first round of the previous qualifying round, Kossoloski had already experienced a five-set battle, and Zhou Qihao, who was a bye in the first round, was playing for the first time, which required him to adapt and enter the game as soon as possible. In the first set, Kossoloski clearly entered the form faster, winning a 5-3 lead in the middle of the game, after which Zhou Qihao slowly tied the score, and the two sides were deadlocked until 11:11, kossoloski grabbed the fighter and scored two consecutive points to take the lead 13:11.
In the second set, Zhou Qihao obviously strengthened the scramble of the first three boards, and the rhythm on the field also began to become faster, and Zhou Qihao opened the game to establish an advantage and pulled back a city at 11:7. However, in the third set, Zhou Qihao, who had already opened the situation, failed to extend the advantage, there were more unnecessary mistakes, Kosorrowski seized the opportunity to pull the score to 9:3, against the trend, Zhou Qihao once forced the score to 8:10, but the key ball Kosorrowski did not have a soft hand, 11:8, the Belgian player won another set. In the fourth set, Zhou Qihao regained his advantage and won easily 11:4, and the two sides scored a big score to draw 2-2.
The decider was full of twists and turns, Zhou Qihao took a 4:1 lead at the beginning, Kosorovsky scored three consecutive points in the middle of the game 4:6 behind, the score was reversed, and then the two sides launched a "tug-of-war", Zhou Qihao held the match point three times in a row at 10:9, 11:10, 12:11 and was equalized by the opponent three times, and then after saving two opposing match points at 12:13 and 13:14, he regrettably lost at 14:16