On the evening of March 14, Chinese table tennis team ushered in a test at the WTT Singapore Smash, 18-year-old star Lin Shidong suffered a strong enemy blocking, and 43-year-old German world champion veteran Timo boll broke out encounter, the result of the young player was eliminated in 4 games, not to the men’s singles eight.
The Chinese table tennis team has already lost three of its main players in the men’s singles, Lin Gaoyuan, Fan Zhendong and Ma Long, and now Lin Shidong has also lost to Timo Boll, leaving only Wang Chuqin and Liang Jingkun to qualify, and Liang Jingkun will face Boll in the quarter-finals, so the Chinese table tennis team is looking forward to stopping their old rivals in the next round! See below for more details.
Match Highlights
Timo Boll was born in 1981 and Lin Sidong was born in 2005. There is a difference of 24 years between the two, but they are both top tier players in the Chinese table tennis team: Timo Boll has beaten as many as fifteen Chinese table tennis team World Champions, and this year, he still managed to beat Jang U-jeong, Lee Sang-soo, Lin Yun-ru, and Tomokazu Zhang in a row in the WTT tournament to win the title; and Lin Sidong, despite his young age, has broken through the World Championships many times, so his strength is quite impressive.
In the second round of this Smash, Lin eliminated his older brother Fan Zhendong, who is ranked No.1 in the world, 3-1. However, for Chinese table tennis team players, the performance in foreign matches is more important to improve their position in the team, so Timo Boll naturally became a “litmus test” to check Lin’s performance.
Match Proceedings
After the first set, the two athletes showed completely different styles of play – Lin Shidong’s two-sided looping powerful, single board quality is very high, while Timo Boll is more like an Asian athlete, the first three boards are delicate and flexible, after many boards Lin Shidong couldn’t get rid of the veteran’s rotating entanglements, and the result was 7-11 first lost a set.
In the second set, Timo boll was once again behind, unable to force himself to break the defense of the situation fell into the control of the timo boll, the result of 8-11 again was forced into a desperate situation, timo boll continue to firmly in control of the situation, the attack and defense conversion is impermeable, so that it is difficult for the young player to fight back.
In the third set, Lin Shidong continued to be passive, but in the face of the unfavorable situation, he quickly found the feeling, on the contrary, Timo boll in the second half of the error frequently, and even direct serve lost points, finally let Lin Shidong to 11-5 back to a set. In the fourth set, the veteran’s fitness obviously started to decline, and Lin Shidong seized the opportunity and attacked hard to gradually take the lead.
In the face of the youngster’s onslaught, Timo Boll stabilized his position and successfully reversed the score by dropping points and other changes. As a result, Lin Shidong could not hold on and lost the game 10-12, thus the Chinese table tennis men’s singles team lost another big player, and it will be Leung Jingkun who will step up to stop Boll in the next game.
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