The table tennis WTT Muscat regular season is in full swing, Beijing time on 14 January burst the first big cold, men’s singles third seed, Africa’s first brother Aruna (Nigeria) 0-3 defeat was swept away, defeated Chinese Taipei’s Huang Yancheng, during a time to recover 2 match points still failed to reverse the defeat, and thus a round trip to stop the thirty-two, see below for more details.
Aruna is the best of the current African table tennis players, once ranked in the world’s top ten, and is currently in the twentieth position, and is the third seed in the men’s singles event of the tournament, after Tomokazu Zhang and Ovtcharov, and has beaten many famous players, including Chinese and Japanese mainstay Liang Jingkun and Harimoto Tomokazu, among others.
Comparatively speaking, 21-year-old Huang Yancheng has not had a glittering career in the ping-pong world, and although he beat Chinese table tennis team world champion Liang Jingkun at the Asian Championships last year, he soon fell quiet again, not expecting to blow up again in Muscat this time.
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Aruna’s hands were tied on the first three boards of the first set, and he failed to utilise his forehand looping power, leading by only one point when he first came on to the court, and then he was in a passive position, eventually losing the first set 5-11. Aruna’s form picked up in the second set, leading Huang Yancheng in the first half of the set, but was then reversed, and then lost 8-11 to be pushed to the brink of extinction.
The third game Aruna back to fight, although once in 8-10 behind the situation to save 2 match points, but ultimately to 10-12 lost the whole game, and thus round trip was eliminated, no chance to advance to the round of sixteen to continue to impact the championship.
From the technical playing style, Aruna’s ball speciality is outstanding, but the loophole is obvious, when playing well is very lethal, dare and China and Japan and other strong teams of the main board, but when playing poorly can be lost, and can’t form a stable threat to some of the famous players, the small ball technology is relatively rough, this tournament on the eat serve serious, these are important reasons to limit the upper limit of its development.
However, as an athlete from Africa, Aruna’s achievement under difficult conditions is already very impressive, no matter what the result of the match is, it is equally worthy of our applause and praise, and we look forward to his next performance will be even more colourful.
