There are a total of sixteen games in the first round of the main draw, but there are only eight tables, so this round is played in two batches.
The first thing to be done is actually the elimination of the four divisions in the upper half of the group.
So when Wang Chao eliminated Mizutori Hato, most of the other groups also had a winner.
In Zone 1, Xiao Fei and Yan Ping'an won two cannon fodders 4:0 without any surprises, which reflects the stability and high level of Chinese table tennis players.
In Area 2, Bayer and Lin Zijun took down two cannon fodders without any danger, but Bayer was very clever. Wherever he can save effort, he will definitely save effort. The ball saved must not be saved, but Lin Zijun played too fiercely and had a slightly high turnover rate, so in the end the scores between them were 4:2 and 4:1. From the scene, the victory was not very good.
In District 3, Wang Chao and Zhu Shixian joined hands to enter the top 16. Although Wang Chao's game was a strong confrontation, it was actually a dominant victory from the scene. On Zhu Shixian's side, the veteran chipper toyed his opponent to death, easily sealing a 4-0 zero, which once again proved the huge natural advantage of chipper when facing unfamiliar opponents.
District 4 is very interesting.
k. Michel 4:0 easily won, but Li Zhengzhi, another seeded player in the same group, was eliminated by Lu Feiyang, who had just emerged from the qualifying round.
Lu Feiyang won with a big score of 4:3 and a small score of 15:13 in the deciding game. It was an extremely difficult game.
After the match, Li Zhengzhi looked like he was in mourning. With such a high world ranking, he carried huge expectations within Kimchi Country. As a result, he lost to a newcomer in the international arena who was ranked outside the top 100 in the world. He had already foreseen the difficult situation after returning to China.
Although he didn't lose as badly as Mizutori Hato, don't forget that Sakura Country's folk customs are relatively gentle, while Kimchi Country's folk customs are quite tough. Li Zhengzhi was beaten for a long time after losing to Lin Zijun last year. This time he lost to Lu Feiyang, and it is estimated that he will be beaten until the heart of the road is lost.
The most ironic thing is that the winner Lu Feiyang was not too happy. Before he had time to celebrate, he saw the gloomy face of the head coach Zhu Zeshi sitting behind the fence.
Lu Feiyang suddenly withered.
He knows what the problem is and why Zhu Zeshi is dissatisfied.
It was too difficult for me to win.
Although Li Zhengzhi is ranked so high in the world, in the estimation of Zhu Zeshi and even the entire Huaping coaching staff, it is only reasonable for Lu Feiyang to play Li Zhengzhi with a sling. It is already a crime to win miserably in the decisive game.
Last year, Lu Feiyang showed his absolute strength in strength and hard power in T2, which amazed the world table tennis world. It can be said that at that time, even though Lu Feiyang was still outside the top 100 in the world rankings, knowledgeable people in the world table tennis world have recognized that Lu Feiyang's strength may have entered the top 10 in the world.
This is not to praise, but because Lu Feiyang really played a very good game, and he was the only heavyweight newcomer launched by Huaping last year. The meaning of this is terrifying for foreign players to think about.
After returning from T2, Zhu Zeshi began to tailor a system for Lu Feiyang, and the first thing he did was to make Lu Feiyang's ball "thinner" and "softer".
Lu Feiyang's character is careless and heartless. He also plays with a wide-open approach and uses violence to counter violence. Although this kind of playing is very entertaining, it will actually leave a lot of flaws unknowingly. In layman's terms, his playing is too rough.
If we continue to fight like this, Lu Feiyang's greatest achievement can only be to become another Lin Li.
Zhu Zeshi is not willing to do this.
Because he knows that the kid Lu Feiyang is actually very smart. The reason why he looks stupid at ordinary times is because he doesn't remember anything and doesn't care about anything except playing ball. And this is actually not a bad thing. It means that Lu Feiyang is very attentive in table tennis.
So as long as he can become thinner, the upper limit will be raised a lot, and then he may take the path of Fan Xiaodong in the future.
——Yes, at this time Zhu Zeshi has also seen the terrifying potential of Fan Xiaodong, and feels deep down in his heart that Lu Feiyang is not as good as Fan Xiaodong, so he has to let Lu Feiyang catch up faster, not to say completely catch up, at least not to fall behind.
Don't forget that Huaping also had a Wang Chao last year, and Wang Chao is also like Grand Slam. In other words, when Luo Jiu comes to an end, the subsequent competition will be very, very fierce, and the disciples of Zhu Zeshi are the least talented among these competitors.
Zhu Zeshi is the most honorable person in Huaping, so he cannot be impatient.
So after the Spring Festival this year, Lu Feiyang only stayed at home for three days before being urged by Zhu Zeshi to return to the team early. When Wang Chao was training secretly at the Jiangcheng City Team base, Lu Feiyang was also training secretly at the national team training base.
After one month of special training, according to common sense, Lu Feiyang should have made great progress based on last year.
But in fact, his actual combat this year has clearly revealed a trend of regression in strength.
Playing Gao Mingyuan, both times reached the deciding game.
Don't forget, Gao Mingyuan's forehand posture and mental quality issues have not been solved yet. It is not a complete body yet. At best, it is a piece of raw ore just dug out of the mountain.
Li Zhengzhi is a complete player, but Li Zhengzhi proved in T2 last year that what he fears most is opponents with delicate touch who will control the ball against him.
Because Japanese penhold single-ply blade is the ultimate limit of fierce table tennis play. He does not control the ball at all, he attacks but does not defend, he advances but does not retreat. To use a game line, it is called the ambition to stay in the formation, there is death but no life.
Even if Lu Feiyang fights violence with Li Zhengzhi, he is at least 70% sure to kill Li Zhengzhi. Moreover, his Spring Festival special training this year is all about practicing control. He has already practiced handling small balls in the table quite well. The results of the special training make Zhu Zeshi very satisfied.
But when the fight actually started, Lu Feiyang was beaten into a mess.
He didn't completely control the ball, and he didn't fully open up the offense. Instead, he made a lot of mistakes, his strategy was confusing, and he played in a mess. Many times, he even looked dull after Li Zhengzhi's ball rushed over.
Zhu Zeshi knew that this was a conflict between Lu Feiyang's body and mind.
His body wanted to fight violence with violence, to fight back simply and directly, while his mind wanted him to control the ball and not give Li Zhengzhi any chance to attack.
Fortunately, the strength gap between the two sides is relatively large, and Lu Feiyang finally won in this contradictory situation.
But this won't work...
This is a problem with the athlete's thinking, and great efforts must be made to correct it.
So before the next round of competition starts, Zhu Zeshi plans to do some ideological education work for Lu Feiyang.
When Wang Chao passed by the No. 6 table and headed to the bathroom, he saw Lu Feiyang drooping his head like a quail, while Zhu Zeshi was talking to him with a serious face.
Wang Chao didn't lean over to listen. He went to the toilet as quickly as possible, and when he came back, he went straight to the No. 5 table.
What will be next is the elimination of the lower half of the group. What Wang Chao wants to see is the game between Hook and Qiu Shang.
Based on his previous experience, he was wary of all Chinese players and would never look down on them. What's more, Qiu Shang not only took the fourth spot in the European powerhouse Germany, but also broke out of the group of death where Liang Kunpeng belonged yesterday.
Wang Chao needs to study Qiu Shang's playing style.
After all, this person will meet him many times in the world arena in the future, and one day they will have to fight against each other. Players with this assassin style of play will have to guard against him.
After 15 minutes, the second half of the game started.
After 35 minutes, Qiu Shang was eliminated by Hook 4:1.
This game was not very enjoyable to watch, because Hook's style of play was too violent. He would either directly attack after serving, or directly attack after the opponent's serve. He won the whole game, and few balls lasted more than five rounds.
But he played very rough, with a turnover rate of almost 40%. Basically, every time he passed, he would either score on offense or commit suicide on offense.
His attack Qiu Shang didn't block many of them, and his suicide Qiu Shang wouldn't block either.
Therefore, although every ball in this game was of high quality, it was not good-looking at all, so that many spectators who watched with confidence chose to look up at the big screen after watching it for a while.
Wang Chao is naturally not an ordinary spectator. He actually thinks that this game is very exciting. If nothing else, just the incredible and strange balls played by Hook have already amazed him, and he admires the Brazilian's super sports talent time and time again.
What a monster!
But Wang Chao didn't see what he wanted to see.
Judging from the scene, Hook took the initiative, so much so that Qiu Shang kept trying to defend and think of various ways to prevent Hook from attacking. He never found a chance to counterattack, and he was unable to reflect his own tactical characteristics.
The only thing that can be seen from Wang Chao is that Qiu Shang's mind is very flexible, because he really came up with many ways to deal with Hook's unreasonable attacks. Unfortunately, there is a significant gap between him and Hook in terms of strength, speed and batting quality, so these methods did not achieve very good results in the end.
If there is any conclusion, it would be: Qiu Shang may be more afraid of high-quality single board play.
This means that his defense ability is weak.
In yesterday's group cycle, the only game he lost was to Liang Kunpeng, and Liang Kunpeng is a typical figure in high-quality single board play.
And Hook is a single-board high-quality ceiling.
Wang Chao After watching the game, he was about to leave when he suddenly heard a burst of crazy shouts from the No. 3 table not far away. He glanced at the scoreboard from a distance and was suddenly surprised.
It turned out that it was the Swedish brother Morad who eliminated the first brother from the port area, Weng Chunting.
This is Hong Kong Open's biggest upset so far.
At this moment, the entire audience was startled and began to whisper to each other crazily. Then the audience all stood up, a few were shouting, and the majority were booing.
Don't forget, this is Minato's home court, and more than half of the audience here are here to support Minato's players, and Weng Chunting is the card character in their minds.
No matter how much the outside world boasts about Morad, the successor of Old Wa, people in Minato City still firmly believe that Weng Chunting will win. After all, it was this man who broke the medal drought in the World Series for Hong Kong. It was also this man who made Hong Kong Table Tennis Association an association ranked high in the world table tennis world.
Even those European media that wildly praised Morad only claimed in their copywriting that "Morad is definitely a player who can pose a huge threat to Weng Chunting", but few people dared to directly claim that "Morad can defeat Weng Chunting".
After all, he is ranked 9th in the world.
Who among the top ten is not a heroic figure?
What's more, Weng Chunting can go directly to the Chinese National Table Tennis Team base for training every year. Huaping, the big brother, has always spared no effort to help Minato, so Weng Chunting can even be counted as a Huaping player.
The word "Hua Ping" has a combat power bonus and a halo in the table tennis world.
If Mizutori Hato's loss to Wang Chao was still expected by some people, then Weng Chunting's loss to Morad was truly an out-and-out miracle.
At this moment Morad was so excited that he shouted crazily, then took off his shirt, held it above his head and waved it constantly. Not satisfied that it was enough, he rushed directly to the sidelines, bang bang bang, bang bang bang, kicking 8 blocks in one breath.
Why is it 8 yuan?
Because there were only 7 baffles in total behind the No. 3 table, the Swedish guy got carried away with his excitement and directly took out all 7 baffles on his side. He also kicked the baffle of the No. 4 table next door to pieces. Then he realized that he had crossed the line, so he quickly retracted his legs that had rushed towards the 9th baffle.
Poor port player No. 2 He Junjie was fighting fiercely with his opponent when he suddenly heard a loud noise. He was startled and felt the coldness on his back like a knife. He quickly turned his head and saw a blond guy rushing behind him aggressively and performing a beautiful golden rooster. It was like Huang Feihong's Foshan Shadowless Kick held high above his head when he debuted, or the iconic tomahawk chop action of a fighting master.
At this moment, He Junjie's mind was a little short-circuited, thinking that the other party was here for a real-person PK, so he subconsciously took a step to the side and forgot to catch the ball flying from the opposite side of his own table.
He lost a point because of this. Although the loss was unjust, the referee did not intend to let the ball be replayed because of this.
Who could he talk to for reason?
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