On May 23rd, the regular season of the table tennis WTT in Taiyuan ushered in a battle of highlights, as Chinese table tennis world champion mainstay and All-Championships men’s singles champion Liang Jingkun took to the court to take on All-Championships men’s singles runner-up Liu Dingshuo. The battle was fought fiercely but Liang Jingkun was still clearly in the ascendancy, eventually locking up a victory through a more balanced forehand and backhand strength to advance to the last sixteen, sweeping his teammates by a large margin of 3-0.
As the three main Olympic stars of the Chinese table tennis team, Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong and Ma Long, did not participate in the singles events of the tournament, Liang Jingkun became the top seed, and is expected to prove his mettle in his quest to win the title! See below for details of the battle.
Liu Dingshuo was once a big dark horse in the Chinese table tennis team, bursting out of the cold at the National Games in 2021, winning consecutively over Olympic champion Xu Xin and world champion Wang Chuqin to advance to the final of the men’s singles, and finally failing to beat Fan Zhendong to reap the runner-up spot, but unfortunately, his performance later on was average, with no bright results in either the internal or external battles, and was gradually marginalized as a result.
Although the Games singles results are not as good as Liu Dingshuo, but after all, Liang Jingkun is one of the five main Chinese table tennis team men’s team, won the World Series and World Cup men’s team championship, the men’s singles championship of the National Championships, Liu Dingshuo want to win this battle is difficult, it is generally believed that he is more than likely to be lost.
At the beginning of the first set, both athletes played their own technical characteristics – Liang Jingkun’s backhand was superb, Liu Dingshuo’s forehand was too hard, both sides were good at holding, pulling, so the match was very ornamental, triggering a burst of applause from the audience, although Liang Jingkun was behind the score because of too many errors, but in the end, it was still a close win of 11-9! The match came to a close with an 11-9 win.
In the second set, Liu Dingshuo was still relatively passive, as his backhand was not as strong as he would have liked, so he was beaten by his teammates on both sides of the court, and in the end, it was the Chinese table tennis team’s main player who came out on top, as Liang Jingkun took the lead with an 11-6 wi
In the third round, Liu Dingshuo fought a back-and-forth battle with Liang Jingkun until 10-all, but Liang Jingkun continued to use his backhand to win the match, ending the battle at 12-10, thus defeating his teammate and advancing to the Men’s Singles Round of 16 with a score of zero.
Although he had his highlights in the National Games, Liu Dingshuo’s forehand is very difficult to continue to achieve good results in today’s ping pong world. The backhand loophole is too big and needs to be forced to make up for it sideways, in the long run, the load on the body is bound to be heavier, and it will also expose the gaps in the forehand, so it’s very difficult for him to return to the top and he can only take one step forward and see how it will go.
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