On the afternoon of October 27, the 2022 Xinxiang WTT World Cup finals began for the men's singles 1/8 finals. After five hard battles, the Chinese team's Lin Gaoyuan lost to the German star Boer with a big score of 2-3, and encountered a first round of games and became the first player to be eliminated in this competition. The scores in the five games were 11-9, 9-11, 8-11, 11-6 and 5-11.
Currently ranked 12th in the world, Lin Gaoyuan helped the men's team in the World Table Tennis Championships to complete the great cause of defending the title of World Table Tennis Championships, and then participated in the WTT Macau Championship with a wild card. In the first round, he fought hard with his teammate Liang Jingkun, and then decided to win and lose. At that time, he lost to his teammate Liang Jingkun 2-3 and encountered a round of games.
WTT Xinxiang World Cup final, Lin Gaoyuan replaced Liang Jingkun, who was suspended, to be qualified for the competition. In the first round of men's singles duel, he faced the test of his strong rivals, and the world's 15th-ranked German star Bohr. In the men's singles 1/8 finals of the WTT Championship match in Budapest in July this year, Lin Gaoyuan defeated Boer 3-0.
In this game, the two of them also played extremely stalemate. The first four games were tied. In the decisive game, Lin Gaoyuan directly lost 6 points in a row after 5 draws, and finally lost to Boer 2-3. After the game, Lin Gaoyuan summarized the reasons for the loss and said that he was more careful in the first game, and the two mistakes in the second game were really inappropriate, and he played more and more conservatively. "I will slowly adjust next time, and I have many shortcomings," said Lin Gaoyuan.
Speaking of the next round of competition with Zhang Benzhi and , Boer said that he had not fought each other for a long time. Although he had the advantage in terms of his record, when he was in good condition, Zhang Benzhi and can defeat anyone. Boer said: "I need to find a good way to make him feel uncomfortable when fighting, so that I can have a chance to win."
text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhou Xueshuai
editor/Xu Zhao
