Beijing time on July 13th, the WTT Star Challenge is in full swing. It has now entered the third match day. In fact, the first two match days were mainly qualifying matches. Basically, the players of the Chinese team There was no appearance, so starting from the third match day, the national table tennis players began to play in the main matches of each individual event. It can also be seen that everyone was a little nervous at first, but the overall strength still had obvious advantages, so in the final match The results were all near misses, maintaining the good news of a comprehensive victory.
Among them, in the mixed doubles match that attracted much attention, the newly formed team of Wang Manyu and Wang Chuqin made people sweat. In this round of competition, they faced Du Kaiqin and The combination of Huang Zhenting , the fifth-ranked mixed doubles combination in the world, put a lot of pressure on the Chinese team's Wang Zhao combination. Although Wang Manyu and Wang Chuqin won the first game, their opponents then won two consecutive games and defeated Wang Manyu and Wang Chuqin. Wang Chuqin was forced into a desperate situation, but then the two played steadily and then won two games in a row, completing the reversal 3-2 and advancing to the quarterfinals.
In other games that have already been played, Fan Siqi swept French player Yuan Jianan 3-0, and Xiang Peng defeated South Korea's top brother Lee Sang-soo 3-1. This can be regarded as an unexpected revelation. It's a big upset. After all, Xiang Peng's experience in international competitions is not as good as that of his opponents. Being able to defeat Li Shangzhu this time still gave Liu Guoliang and the national table tennis fans a big surprise. Seeing Xiang Peng continue to mature through recent experience, it also Liu Guoliang is gratified that his performance in this game is still worth looking forward to.
In the first round of the men's and women's singles, the National Table Tennis Team, including the men's team Ma Long, Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin, and the women's team Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi all had byes, so the first round of competition What we can see more is the PK between some young players of the Chinese team and foreign players, but we can see that these young players are not soft-handed at critical moments and can sweep forward to the next round. This can be regarded as getting better through the game. The training value, especially for Xiang Peng, is the star of hope for the singles successor that the national table tennis team will focus on training in the future.
In the new Olympic cycle, the reason why Ma Long cannot retire is precisely because the national table tennis men's team cannot find a second Fan Zhendong . There is no second newcomer who can take the lead in singles. Wang Chuqin plays more doubles. Liang Jingkun is not young anymore, so Liu Guoliang needs to find new players. At present, Xiang Peng has proven his worth with actions, and is very expected to impress Liu Guoliang to focus on training and promotion in the future. Perhaps a new generation of national table tennis singles superstars are on the way. During the rise, I look forward to Xiang Peng’s performance in the next games being even more exciting.
