When Zou Zhengyu lost, the young player from Kimchi Country looked panicked, but he did not give up. He persisted with Wang Chao and finished the fourth game of the 13th group this morning. Unsurprisingly, they lost 0:4.
The competition in this group has ended. Although there are currently three players in this group, Zou Zhengyu and Kimchi Country still have games to play, but because Wang Chao has taken the lead in accumulating three points, he has theoretically become the unsurpassable number one in the group.
In the morning of that day, more than half of the 32 qualifying groups had already decided on the final winner.
Because there are really many people who abstain, especially when someone in the group is obviously stronger than others.
For example, in the group of Gao Mingyuan and Lu Feiyang, three people immediately abstained, and the six-person group became a three-person group. Then the Belarus player in the group took the initiative to invite Gao Mingyuan to play the first game, and the result was a crushing defeat.
Then Gao Mingyuan played against Lu Feiyang. The two sides played very close. In the end, just like the last Huaping selection, they reached the deciding game, and Lu Feiyang still had the last laugh in the deciding game.
After the game, Gao Mingyuan was very frustrated, because he was really only a little bit close to revenge, but at the critical moment, his mentality went wrong again, and he was reversed by Lu Feiyang with the advantage of two match points.
The problem is that the winner Lu Feiyang is also very frustrated because he was scolded by the teacher Zhu Zeshi, saying that he played too badly.
This is actually understandable, because in the internal evaluation of the Huaping coaching staff, Lu Feiyang is far better than Gao Mingyuan. In fact, if there were no two surprises, Wang Chao and Fan Xiaodong, in the second half of last year, the coaching staff of the Chinese Table Tennis Team would be preparing to focus on training Lu Feiyang this year.
In other words, if Wang Chao had not traveled through time and Fan Xiaodong had not run away from home, then Lu Feiyang would be the person selected by Huaping to impact Grand Slam in the next ten years.
How could Zhu Zeshi accept such a seeded player being beaten like this against Gao Mingyuan, who has major flaws?
When Lu Feiyang made it out of the group stage, Morad also made it out.
This young Swedish guy holding a polygonal racket has gradually attracted the attention of many interested people in the table tennis world. Don't forget, he eliminated the German No. 3 player Sissifield in T2 last year, and this time, he eliminated the Chinese table tennis player Sun Zhongwen.
Sun Zhongwen is not famous because he only participated in an international competition for the first time, but his evaluation in the second team of China Table Tennis Team is not low. He is the second seed behind Lu Feiyang. A few days ago, he easily defeated Hu Buming in the promotion and relegation stage of the team selection.
In any case, being able to defeat the second seed in the underage group of Huaping proves that Morad also has the potential to soar into the sky. In time, he may become another Pike or Hook.
If we take into account the long heritage of Swedish table tennis, then this country that gave birth to "non-Chinese associations's greatest player Old Wa" may have a super star that attracts worldwide attention.
But it is a pity that except for the game results of Morad 4: 0 zero seal and Sun Zhongwen, no one knows how Morad won, because there was no live broadcast and no one recorded it.
Immediately afterwards, another highlight came to an end. Zhang Benkuang defeated German player Sissifield 4:3 and qualified first in the group.
Sissifield has performed very well in Europe in the past two years. He has been publicly praised by the German Table Tennis Association head coach Rohlskov many times and praised him as Bayer and After Wolf, he is the third generation flag bearer of Germany. However, his performance in the past year can only be said to be unsatisfactory. After being eliminated by newcomer Morad in T2 last year, he was eliminated again by underage player Zhang Benkuang this time.
Considering that he is already 26 years old, with this defeat, his status in the world table tennis world will plummet.
There are only a few games in the morning that are worthy of attention, and the remaining games that can last until the afternoon are all because there is not much difference in the strength of the players in the team, and everyone feels that they have a chance.
For example, Liang Kunpeng's team.
This is a seven-member team. Except for the Chinese player Liang Kunpeng, five of the remaining six people in the team are relatively well-established.
The first is the 27-year-old veteran Kimchi Country. He holds the racket horizontally in his right hand and uses the popular style of fast break combined with the loop ball. He is ranked 38th in the world and is considered a very powerful veteran.
The second place is the 23-year-old Sakura Country, a powerful newcomer. Sakura Country has vigorously developed table tennis in the past two years. Women's table tennis has achieved outstanding results, while men's table tennis has been slightly inferior. However, a number of good rookies have indeed been born. This one is the best among them. He just won fifth place in the men's singles at the Sakura Country National Games half a year ago.
The third person mentioned before is Portugal's first brother Fretas. This eldest brother is almost forty years old. His strength and speed have declined drastically. Seeing that his status as the first brother in the country is also in jeopardy, he belongs to A player whose reputation is greater than his strength, but no matter what, he defeated Wang Wendong and Sun Tianlong in their heyday. The skinny camel is bigger than the horse. In this group, he is definitely the favorite to qualify.
The fourth player is a Chinese, only 23 years old this year, named Qiu Shang. Although he is not well-known in the world table tennis world, he is actually somewhat famous in Europe. He is the current No. 4 figure of Germany, ranked below Sissifield.
But in last year's European Championships, he personally eliminated Sissifield. Although this was because Sissifield was in poor condition, it also proved that Qiu Shang's strength is definitely above his reputation. If you check more information, you will find that as early as a year and a half ago, Qiu Shang defeated two card figures, Bayer and Wolf, in the club league of Germany.
Therefore, Qiu Shang must not be underestimated. He plays the role of an unknown killer. If you are not careful, you will be stabbed to death by him quietly.
The fifth one is even more incredible, he is the biological brother of the current Swedish brother k. Michel, named m. Michel.
k. Michel is ranked 11th in the world. You can imagine his strength. As his biological brother, m. Michel has inherited the same excellent table tennis genes, so his strength cannot be underestimated. Although he is only ranked 49th in the world, In Sweden, he is the number two player. Because he often practices with his brothers, his batting quality and catching ability are quite outstanding. He has perfected his defensive style of play. This style of play has great power against rookie players who generally have an impetuous mentality.
The only player left in this group is a 17-year-old player from Africa. He has dark skin, bright eyes, and white teeth. What is very rare is that he is a left-handed straight skater. This time he came just to increase his knowledge and learn the playing styles of outstanding players from various countries.
Therefore, even though this group was so dead, the African youngster had no intention of giving up. On the contrary, he was very excited and expected to be ravaged by the six big brothers in turn.
It was not until 8:30 pm local time that this group played all the games.
Because the game lasted too long, all the games in other groups had already ended, so later on, almost all the professional players on site watched the game in this group, which also put a lot of pressure on the players in this group.
In the end, the Chinese-German players Qiu Shang and Portugal's old brother Fretas tied for first place, with both records of 5 wins and 1 loss. The only game Qiu Shang lost was to Liang Kunpeng, while the only game Fretas lost was to Qiu Shang.
Therefore, according to the mutual winning and losing relationship, Qiu Shang qualified.
Liang Kunpeng was tired and frustrated when he walked out of the game. When he was in Table Tennis Super League, he was actually looking higher than his head. He always felt that Imperial Capital New City Team's downgrade was his teammates' problem, not his own.
But in the past few months, he has lost to Wang Chao and Fan Xiaodong, and now he has not even made it into the top three in a group whose average level is not very high. He feels deeply frustrated, and his blind confidence in the quality of his forehand board is also fading away bit by bit.
Because he found that when these non-Chinese associations players hit him, almost all of them focused on his backhand. Although his forehand blast was extremely powerful, he really didn't have a few chances to make a move from beginning to end.
This finally made him couldn't help but start thinking about a question: Should I practice other skills first? For example, swinging short, rubbing the ball, twisting the backhand, changing the line, or changing the serve. Since they don't let me hit the forehand, I have to rely on other techniques to get the chance to hit the forehand.
Then he saw Gao Mingyuan with a lonely face, and for some reason, he felt that his mood became much brighter for no reason.
Well, after all, there is another unlucky guy like me. If I remember correctly, his ranking among the six dragons is still lower than mine.
And I played all day before being eliminated, but he seemed to be eliminated after just one game in the morning?
In any case, the hellish schedule of the group round robin finally came to an end at 8:40 pm local time. Without much waiting, the organizers re-drawn lots for the knockout rounds of the second stage of the qualifying round.
The 32 players will be divided into 16 pairs based on the draw results and will conduct a simple and crude knockout match tomorrow morning. The winner will enter the main draw and the loser will be eliminated directly.
This round of drawing is so tense that it is suffocating, because at this time, the 32 people who have won temporarily include almost all the world's best players who have not directly entered the main draw. These people are pursuing world rankings and have played in the main draw many times. For them, they can enter the main draw if they win one more game. Once they enter the main draw, even if they are at the bottom, they will still have points.
But if you can't make it to the main draw, it will really be in vain.
Unlike Chinese players who have the state responsible for all their food, clothing, housing and transportation during the entire trip, the vast majority of foreign players are responsible for their own profits and losses. They have to earn bonuses by ranking in the game. This is their job.
If you can't even make it to the main tournament, then the accommodation, air tickets, food, and daily expenses for this trip will become pure waste.
Ten minutes later, the dust settled, and all sixteen games were clearly displayed on the big screens around the arena.
Wang Chao scanned around for a while, but fortunately, at least he and Lu Feiyang didn't run into each other. Otherwise, this Open would really have become a cursed one, and the probability of a civil war in Chinese table tennis would be ridiculously high.
In fact, according to the practice of the Open over the years, the qualifying rounds have to be completed on the same day, but because there are too many people this time, it is too late now, so the second stage of the qualifying rounds will be held tomorrow morning.
The port area was not peaceful that night, and the competition venue was open all night, because more than half of the 32 qualifying players returned to the venue after a hurried dinner, intending to practice ball as soon as possible and catch up on their feet temporarily.
After all, there is not much difference in everyone's strength. There is always no harm in doing some targeted training on the premise of identifying the opponent.
Even Lu Feiyang felt very stressed. Even though his opponent was just a Peacock Country player ranked over 70 in the world, he still took the initiative to drag Zhu Zeshi to the venue after eating, and also took a sparring partner with him.
In the end, only Wang Chao slept peacefully.
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