China News Agency, Beijing, February 21 (Hao Lingyu and Xing Chong) The Chinese Table Tennis Team's "Straight to Durban" World Table Tennis Championship trial decided on the 21st the mixed doubles champion. Lin Gaoyuan/Chen Xingtong defeated Yu Ziyang/Sun Mingyang 3:1 win the championship.
In addition, all singles round robin competitions are over, and the top four seats are announced.
The mixed doubles event is the key event of this site's selection competition. Xiao Zhan, the leader of the National Table Tennis Mixed Doubles Team, said that according to the needs of preparations and the characteristics of his personal style of play, 11 pairs of players with strong strength have been determined to enter the main match, and there are 5 pairs from the preliminaries. Selected, hoping to create a competitive platform for the players through the competition, and ultimately improve the overall ability level.
The mixed doubles competition in this event is quite fierce. The world's number one Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha stopped in the third round, and the lineup composed of the absolute main players of national table tennis such as Ma Long/Chen Meng and Fan Zhendong/Wang Manyu was also eliminated early.
The final mixed doubles match was between Lin Gaoyuan/Chen Xingtong and Yu Ziyang/Sun Mingyang.
After the start of the final, Lin Gaoyuan/Chen Xingtong quickly entered the state, winning the first game with 11:5, and Yu Ziyang/Sun Mingyang then pulled back a game with 11:6.
As the game progressed, Lin Gaoyuan/Chen Xingtong gradually mastered the rhythm of the field, played two consecutive rounds at 11:5 and 11:8, and won the championship with a total score of 3:1.
After winning the championship this time, Lin Gaoyuan/Chen Xingtong have taken the lead in competing for the World Table Tennis Championships mixed doubles through places.
According to the regulations of the competition, the mixed doubles results of this station will be added to the next station, and the mixed doubles combination with the best result will get a straight-through quota.
After the game, Lin Gaoyuan said that through the game, he found a lot of technical, tactical and psychological problems that need to be improved. In the future, he will strengthen his ability to adjust his mentality when fighting against foreign players.
Xiao Zhan, head of the National Table Tennis Mixed Doubles team, said that the competition in the mixed doubles competition is fierce, which shows that there is not much difference in the strength of the national table tennis main players, quasi-main players, and young players in the mixed doubles. The team members have many problems, and the potential of young athletes has been tapped.
There was also a singles competition that day.
Grand Slam winner Ma Long Baodao not old, reversed and defeated his former men's doubles partner Yuan Licen with 3:2, and advanced to the first place with three consecutive victories in the group stage.
For this result, Ma Long called it "beyond imagination" after the game.
He said that he was a little tired after the three-day trials, and it was not easy to win the game today. He hoped that the performance in the semi-finals could be the same as that in the group stage.
After the three rounds of men's and women's singles group matches are over, the semi-finals of men's and women's singles will be released.
According to the lottery, Fan Zhendong will face Wang Chuqin in the men's singles semifinals, and Ma Long will face Liang Jingkun. However, due to Wang Chuqin's withdrawal, Fan Zhendong will directly advance to the finals; in women's singles, Sun Yingsha will face He Zhuojia, and Chen Meng will face Chen Xingtong, who is ranked seventh in the world.
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