On October 5, Beijing time, in the semifinals of the WTT China Grand Slam men's singles, the 21-year-old Xiang Peng lost to the 19-year-old Lin Shidong 2-4, with a score of 11-8, 12-14, 7-11, 10-12, 11-7, 4-11. Although Xiang Peng missed the men's singles final, he has set a record for being able to enter the semifinals as a qualifier, he is the only one in the men's singles, and he and Fan Siqi are the only ones in the men's and women's singles.
Against Lin Shidong, Xiang Peng has done his best, in the first game when Lin Shidong was tempted, Xiang Peng added quality to win the first game, in the second game, Xiang Peng and Lin Shidong stalemate to 12-12 The key points were lost by Lin Shidong, the third game Xiang Peng was defeated 7-11, the fourth game Xiang Peng was once ahead of Lin Shidong by 3 points and was reversed, the fifth game Xiang Peng 11-7 pulled back a game, and the sixth game was 4-11 quick defeat.
Xiang Peng is also a wild card to participate in the qualifying round of men's singles, he started from the qualifying round on September 26, on September 29 eliminated Australia's first brother Lin Wenzheng 3-0, the round of 16 eliminated Egypt's first brother Asal 3-1, the round of 8 eliminated Lebrun Jr. 3-1 (France first brother), and the fourth round eliminated Moregard (Sweden's first brother + Olympic men's singles runner-up) 4-3, it can be said that Xiang Peng has become the biggest dark horse in men's singles this Beijing Grand Slam.
In the end, Xiang Peng stopped in the men's singles semifinals, and he has already raised 700 points + 40,000 US dollars (about 280,000 yuan), do you know what this means?
Before the Grand Slam, Xiang Peng had 354 points in the world ranking, and the top four had 700 points, that is, it increased to 1054 points, and Xiang Peng improved from 68th to 23rd in the world, that is, he increased 45 places, and Xiang Peng won a few more championships in the subsequent feeder tournaments to hope to enter the top 20 in the world.
Text/Yan Xiaobai: Ping Pong observation