In the doha star challenge, a number of players with certain competitiveness in the world women's table tennis world came to participate, which also made the national table tennis women's team can be said to be a strong challenge by players from foreign associations. Coupled with the fact that the players were a bit tired of fighting, this was already the third tournament played in Doha. Equal to the national table tennis women's team of the little girls morale is going down, people are more tired, the other side is in a better state of preparation, so the national table tennis women will also be in the qualifiers, as well as the first two rounds of the main round have been out. This includes players such as Qian Tianyi and Liu Weishan, who have a certain degree of popularity, as well as players such as Fan Siqi and Qi Fei, who have played well in recent matches, and playing back and forth, before the second round of the national table tennis match is over, only Zhang Rui, a player, is still moving forward. Therefore, her direct dialogue with Germany's Solja has also become the only hope for whether the national table tennis women's team can continue to maintain the opportunity to compete for the championship.
It is gratifying that although in the game, Zhang Rui encountered setbacks, and the first game lost a set 8-11, but in the next three innings, she still gave full play to her advantages in the first three boards and serves, so that Solja had obvious state ups and downs on the field, losing three sets in a row, although Solja also played very tenaciously, and in the fourth set, the two sides played a high score of 14-12, but Zhang Rui still eliminated Solja with a total score of 3-1 and got a place in the women's singles round of 16. The scores were 8-11, 11-3, 11-3 and 14-12 in four sets.
Let's take a look back at the whole game. As we said earlier, in the first set of the game, Solja used his height and strength advantages to take the lead in attacking from the beginning, and tried to directly enter the stalemate state through the transition of the first three boards, and then used the characteristics of his high quality of the single board to strive for the initiative through continuous attacks. Zhang Rui, on the other hand, is trying to control every back and forth ball as much as possible on the first three boards, or about the first five boards. This advantage of each side also allowed the two sides to always bite the score in the first set, and it was still an 8-8 draw in the middle and back of the game. But with Zhang Rui's attack consecutive mistakes, 11-8, Solja scored 3 points in a row, winning the first set at the same time, so that the big score on the court came to 1-0.
However, in the second and third innings of the game, Zhang Rui executed the tactics more well, and her idea of splicing hair and the first three boards also made Solja a little unable to keep up with the rhythm, and there were many direct mistakes in receiving the serve, or the two sides had not really formed a standoff, and Zhang Rui had already taken advantage of the opportunity to serve and serve, and was killed by a board. At the beginning of the second set, Zhang Rui quickly took a big lead from 5-2 to 8-2 to 10-2, although Solja barely chased 1 point at the end of the innings, but Zhang Rui still used Solja's attack to go out of bounds and easily won the second set with an 11-3 score. The two sides drew 1-1. The third inning of the game, and the second inning, are basically similar. Only in this set Zhang Rui was 6-3 easy to take the lead, and then pulled the score all the way to 10-3, at the end of the innings, Zhang Rui did not give Solja another chance, with Solja's direct mistake to send points, 11-3, Zhang Rui easily won the third set, and then came in, to achieve a 2-1 lead in the big score.
In the fourth inning of the game, Solja was on the verge of danger. She stepped up her fighting in this set, taking a 4-1 lead at one point. But Zhang Rui was not in a hurry when she was behind by the score, chasing one point at a time, biting by point, and when she chased the score to 3-4, Solja took the initiative to call a timeout for herself. But the pause doesn't seem to have much effect. When the two people formed a standoff many times, Sorja's own mistakes also increased a little. Although the happy rolling tennis allowed her to open the point difference 8-5 at one point, Zhang Rui immediately used the serve to rush the score closer, coupled with the mid-way attack, and the direct score of the serve rush, the two sides fought to a 9-9 draw. After this draw, the two sides also exchanged round points and match points back and forth, and successively fought into 10 draws, 11 draws and 12 draws, with Solja's backhand attack mistakes, and the return ball to the net, 14-12, Zhang Rui successfully won the fourth set. Thus winning the game with a 3-1 score, it also locked in a place in the women's singles round of 16. As the only seedling of the national table tennis women's team, we also look forward to Zhang Ruineng's continued stable play in the future matches and make every effort to move towards the championship battle. Come on, Rui Zhang.