The second leg of 2022 table tennis WTT Germany Düsseldorf fierce battle is in full swing, Beijing time in the early morning of January 19, men's and women's singles round of 16 lists have been officially released, of which Germany's two main players - Qiu Dang, Philus have been out of the "round trip" out, and their teammates, national table tennis rival Francesca (won Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan) is a bitter 6-game narrow victory.
At present, although the core main forces of China, Japan and South Korea have not participated, the competition in Germany is still relatively fierce, but Ni Xialian, the No. 2 seed in women's singles and former national table tennis world champion, somehow suddenly withdrew from this competition, which is a pity! See below for details.
Compared with the last race in Düsseldorf, this competition has been raised to a large grade because of the joining of Francesca, after all, this is an athlete who once defeated the world champion of the Chinese team, the strength is very strong, and recently Francesca has also played a heroic role in the European league, it seems that his spirit after the new marriage on New Year's Day has also been improved, and there is a momentum of career and love double harvest.
However, in this men's singles match, Francesca was almost knocked out of the cold, and the round of 32 was difficult to score with Austria's Alexander Chen, the 2-0 lead was equalized, and finally 4-2 had a thrilling win (13-11, 11-7, 7-11, 10-12, 11-7, 11-5), it is indeed not easy to win!
Compared with Francesca, his two teammates are not so lucky - the Chinese famous Qiu Dang (the son of Zhang Benzhihe and Ishikawa Jiajun's qiu Jianxin) killed four parties in the German league a few days ago, but did not expect to return to the international arena and planted a heel, losing 1-4 to the French player Alex (8-11, 7-11, 12-14, 12-10, 9-11), and did not qualify for the round of 16.
Although Philus, a chipper who had defeated the famous Chinese, Japanese and Korean players Lin Yunru, Mizutani Falcon and Zhang Yuzhen, although he hung the unknown Romanian player Hipos 11-1 in a single set, he was unable to return to the sky, and like Qiu Dang, he also lost 1-4 (7-11, 11-1, 5-11, 4-11, 8-11), also stopped in the top 32 position.
The promotion to the men's singles round of 16 is as follows:
In the women's singles, in the last game, Slovakian star Barazova and German Chinese star Shan Xiaona met in the final, and finally the former reached the top and the latter was the runner-up, but this time they both did not come (Barazova also registered to withdraw), coupled with ni Xialian's departure, Egypt's Messelv became the biggest favorite to win the second race, and has now advanced to the round of 16.
In addition to Messerf, European champion P. Sorja's sister A. Sorja and America's champion A. Diaz's sister M. Diaz have also become the focus of attention, but the status quo of the two is very different - the latter has been eliminated, while the former has successfully advanced.
The promotion to the women's singles round of 16 is as follows:
At present, the main focus of this German competition is still in the men's singles project, especially Francesca's play is very concerned to fans, after all, in the case of serious injuries to Bol and Ochalov, Francesca is likely to become the national table tennis enemy of the Paris Olympic cycle, must be prevented!
On January 19, the Chinese team will appear at the WTT Macau Tournament, and the national championship of Korean table tennis is also in full swing, and the National Championships in Japan will also kick off in a few days, so let's sit and wait for the latest showdown to be staged: Come on, national table tennis athletes!