On the evening of 7 July, the final battle of the Table Tennis WTT Bangkok Star Tournament – Men’s Singles Final came to an end, the two main players of China and Japan, Lin Gaoyuan and Harimoto Tomokazu, once again met each other narrowly in a summit duel, which resulted in the regrettable 0-4 defeat of Lin Gaoyuan and being swept away.
So far, all the battles of this tournament are over, following the last stop of WTT Tunisia regular season, the Japanese team once again won a big victory to wrap up the five titles, Harimoto Tomokazu, Harimoto Tomokazu/Waseda Hina, Harimoto Tomokazu/Matsushima Teruko, Ito Misaki, and Satou Hitomi/Hashimoto Fanaika succeeded in reaching the top, and Harimoto Tomokazu became the Triple Crown Champion for the second time, which is indeed a crazy fight! See below for the men’s singles final battle.
Lin Gaoyuan and Harimoto Tomokazu are a pair of old foes in the ping pong world, and the pair have met many times in major tournaments, with Lin winning four and losing three, giving him a slight edge in terms of record, but laughing all the way to the bank in both of their encounters in the last two years.
However, Harimoto Tomokazu is in very good shape this July, not only the mixed doubles won four tournaments in a row, and just a few days ago in the WTT Tunisia Regular Season won three consecutive titles, this WTT Bangkok Star Tournament and won the mixed doubles and men’s doubles championships, men’s singles to beat the famous Lin Jonghun, Lin Yunru to advance to the final round of the final round of the momentum, the final of the Harimoto Tomokazu faced a serious test.
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Harimoto Tomokazu started the first set quickly, in the initiative of the attack is obviously stronger than Lin Gaoyuan, soon beat Lin Gaoyuan retreating, and finally only let the other side to get 3 points to win, the state is indeed very good. In the second set, Lin Gaoyuan still didn’t get into the state, and was beaten by Harimoto Tomokazu again, this time collapsing 8-11, which was not a good situation.
In the third set, Lin lost 6 points in a row, then recovered 3 points in a row, forcing Japan and Harimoto Tomokazu to call a timeout to make adjustments. After rejoining the battle, Lin managed to get to 6-all, but then lost 5 points in a row, thus losing 6-11 and being forced into a desperate situation.
In the fourth set, Lin Gaoyuan had no choice but to fight for his life, and then used his timeout at 4-all after playing a passive game. After returning to the court, the two continued to tangle with the score, and finally Lin Gaoyuan failed to resist the pressure on the key points, and lost the whole game with 9-11, and the Chinese team thus lost the whole team without a chance to win the championship.
This tournament Chinese table tennis team although not elite, but the two athletes enrolled are world champion main force, the result is double defeat, which also gives the players are in the Olympic preparations for the alarm bell: Paris big test to be careful!
