On the afternoon of 18th October, the National Table Tennis Championships continued. Olympic champion Fan Zhendong, representing Shanghai Real Estate Group in the second set of the Men’s Team Semi-final, was caught cold, and was forced into a deadlock by Fujian‘s Cheng Jingqi after a 1-0 lead in a 1-2 reversal, while the deciding set was also trailed twice and eventually won 3-2, thus scoring a point for his team, for more details, please refer to the following paragraphs.
Fan Zhendong is a very familiar table tennis player, as the new Olympic Men’s Singles Champion, Smash and Grand Slam winner, his strength is undoubtedly stronger than Cheng Jingqi, but due to the recent two months did not participate in the actual battle, until this National Championships to debut, won two weaker players, so how much the state of the recovery is still in doubt.
In addition, Fan Zhendong has recently revealed a strong intention to retreat, and abandoned the two international tournaments after the National Championships, so the results of the National Championships is likely to have a greater impact on his wavering mentality, naturally, everyone is concerned.
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After the game started, Fan Zhendong played very smoothly in the first set, not only in all technical aspects of the suppression of Cheng Jingqi, but also in the field appeared to be free, drop point, line is very flexible, and ultimately only let the opponent to get 3 points to end the battle.
However, Fan Zhendong started to be attacked by Cheng Jingqi in the second set, and after leading for many times, he failed to curb his opponent’s attacks, but was given set point by Cheng Jingqi first, and then lost 9-11 to his opponent to get back to a city. In the third set, Fan Zhendong dropped points continuously, then continuously chased down Cheng Jingqi and forced her to call a timeout, and then continued to chase down the points and finally levelled up at 9-9.
In the face of Fan Zhendong’s counterattack, Cheng Jingqi stood firm and continued to aggressively play high-quality looping attacks with his opponent, resulting in Fan Zhendong again losing by two points, 9-11, and another set would be lost, but he soon revitalised his strength in the fourth set, and once again blasted out an 11-2 difference, thus dragging the match into a deciding set.
Fan Zhendong came up in the fifth game to serve to steal points, playing very proactive, but then was reversed, so he used up his timeout, and then again the lead was reversed, but ultimately ended up with a close 11-8 win, refused to be blown out of the water.
