On May 10th, the table tennis WTT Saudi Smash ushered in an exciting German civil war, the two famous Franziska and Dang Qiu, who have broken through the Chinese team’s main defense this year, met each other in a fierce duel, resulting in Franziska’s wild 4-0 victory, advancing to the men’s singles quarterfinals to face South Korea’s Jang Woo-jin (who knocked out Ma Long).
In this match, Franziska was down 0-2, came back from 3-2 against Chinese table tennis team Olympic champion Fan Zhendong, saved 2 match points in the deciding game, and now shut out Dang Qiu, who is ranked even higher in the world, but he was previously left out of Germany’s Olympic roster, which is a real shame! See below for details of the battle.
Franziska is one of the few tough players from outside the association who has beaten Ma Long, Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan at the same time, and has been getting better and better against the Chinese table tennis team of late, winning once over Ma Long at the WTT Singapore Smash only in March this year, and then breaking through Fan Zhendong at the WTT Saudi Arabia Smash on this site in May.
However, the competition in the German men’s table tennis team is also very fierce, Franziska has a record and lack of results, and has already fallen out of the German table tennis team to submit the list of the Paris Olympics, naturally, is also holding his breath, and as the men’s singles champion of the European Championships Dang Qiu has been selected for the Olympic Games in three major sports, so this battle for Franziska is also a great opportunity to prove themselves.
At the beginning of the first set, Dang Qiu’s strategy was very clear, that is, to limit Franziska’s powerful looping in the near table, and to create opportunities to attack to beat the slow, but he still could not suppress Franziska’s dumping attack, and the defense of the backhand of the straight racket was also firmly locked up, and then lost the first city 7-11.
In the second set, Dang Qiu’s lead was tied at 7-all, but he couldn’t hold off his teammate’s onslaught in the second half of the set, and the match was reversed at 10-12. Dang Qiu still couldn’t find his best form in the third game, and again lost 7-11 to Franziska, who broke through to take a 3-0 lead and put his teammates on the ropes.
Dang Qiu in the fourth set, but still playing very conservatively, forehand pick basically no, backhand cross-court play also hesitant, many returns are not quality results by Franziska back to pull, and finally only get 5 points to completely lose the whole game, the score 0-4 defeat was swept, stopping men’s singles quarterfinals.
At present, it seems that Franziska if playing crazy words really very strong, completely not afraid of any opponent in the world, but is to suffer in the inability to take the initiative to allocate energy, so the record is very good, but mediocre results in major competitions, which also led to its selection of the list of the Olympic Games is an important reason – but the registration has not yet been closed, maybe the German table tennis team will make a change. change, so let’s wait and see what happens!
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