Blog / By Gareth Chen/ 4 minutes of reading
On 22 November, the table tennis Fukuoka Finals ushered in the focus of the battle, Chinese table tennis team Wang Chuqin took the field, to face the Swedish star Moregard, who eliminated himself from this year’s Olympic Games, and this time, Wang Chuqin resisted the pressure and defeated his opponent 3-1 after 4 games, thus clearing the haze of the previous loss and successfully obtaining the second Men’s Singles Semi-Final ticket, and then he will face the Slovenian Dacko (who eliminated Lin Gao Yuan), who will be the first to play the match. Next up will be Slovenia’s Dacko (who knocked out Lin Gao Yuan), see below for more details.
Match highlights
Wang Chuqin, Moregard is the current men’s singles results ranked at the top of the athletes, although for the time being did not win the Trials Championships, but both took the silver medal in the World Championships, in addition to Moregard is also this year’s runner-up in the Paris Olympics, and at that time he has had a fight with Wang Chuqin, beat each other in the thirty-two rounds of the tournament.
After the Olympics, Wang Chuchin continued to be in a slump, losing in Smash, Asian Championships and Championships, but did not get the chance to play with Moregard. Now that the two are meeting again in the Finals, Wang Chuchin has an important opportunity to get rid of his demons, but he still faces a tough test.
The Match
At the start of the match, both players took the initiative by strengthening the quality of their serves and creating opportunities for attacking. Wang Chuchuqin was the first to take the lead, but was soon levelled by Mooregard, but then gave full play to the threat of his looping forehand, while responding calmly to the opponent’s attacks and counter-attacking defensively, and soon opened up a gap in the latter half of the game and took the lead at 11-6.
In the second set, Moregard increased the threat of serve-and-attack, and held Wang Chuchin’s forehand at the drop point, forcing him not to easily side-step the attack. Faced with Moregard’s changes, Wang Chuqin in the case of 5-10 down to save four set points, forcing Moregard to use up the right to timeout, but then directly ate the serve, to 9-11 defeat by the other side to equalise a city.
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The third game Wang Chuqin again into passive, but both sides in the reception of the ball on the error was robbed, the game quickly into a stalemate, the key moment Wang Chuqin through the roll long to limit the first board of Moregarde on the hand, the effect is very good, and then will slow down the pace, so that the other side of the near platform speed advantage can not play, and finally to 11-6 to take, and then win a game will end the battle.
The fourth game Moregard has no way back, so pay more attention to changes in order to win in the chaos, but Wang Chuqin still looks very determined, came up in the case of being knocked out of the table strong counter-pulling scores, and then continuous suppression of the opponent, in the round of multiple boards by virtue of the strength of the win, but then was chased down to 5-4 only 1 point, and chose to pause for adjustments.
In the exchange off the court, Chinese table tennis team men’s head coach Wang Hao constantly cheered for Wang Chuqin, while carefully laying out tactics for him. After returning to the court, Wang Chuchuqin continuously attacked, the line is very flexible, constantly beyond the Moraygard’s prediction, and soon opened the gap again, but then 10-5 lead missed 4 match points, but in the end still to 11-9 lock victory, thus a large score of 3-1 to beat Moraygard to advance to the quarter-finals of the men’s singles, and then will be compared with the Dako, look forward to his continued to pass the impact on the championship.
