Table tennis WTT Macau Championship is in full swing. On September 12, Beijing time, the national table tennis team suffered another defeat. After Huang Youzheng and Xiang Peng lost 0-3 to Aruna (Nigeria) and 2-3 to Francesca (Germany), young player Chen Yuanyu was also reversed 1-3 to lose to Danish athlete Linde while leading 1-0. He saved 3 match points in the fourth game and was still unable to turn the situation. The Chinese team lost half of the team in this event (a total of 6 people participated). Please see below for details.
Chen Yuanyu is nicknamed "Little Ma Long". Born in 2005, he is the same as Lin Shidong and Huang Youzheng. However, the latter two young players are currently singles champions in the National Championships and the World Youth Championship. Lin Shidong has long realized his dream of a world championship. Chen Yuanyu's performance is obviously inferior and he is still working hard to catch up.
Although there were highlights in international competitions this year, Chen Yuanyu's recent condition was very unsatisfactory and lost many foreign battles. This time, he almost collapsed in the first round of Macau, and only reversed Egyptian star Asar 3-2 after playing 5 games. In the second round, he met Lin De, a Danish master who had won Wang Chuqin and others. The pressure can be imagined.
After the game started, the two sides fought wits and courage around the first three boards. Lin De's serve was very hidden, but Chen Yuanyu obviously did enough preparations, and quickly adapted to the opponent's rhythm and gained a lead. After scoring continuously, he curbed the opponent's counterattack momentum, and then won the first place with 11-9 wins and 2 points.
In the second game, Lin De began to change his mind and devote more energy to the backhand that attacked Chen Yuanyu. The effect was very good - like Ma Long, Chen Yuanyu was very comprehensive in technology, but the backhand was relatively weak, and he quickly lost points on the court and eventually lost 5-11. The two returned to the same starting line.
Chen Yuanyu took the lead again in the third game, but Lin De quickly played his serve threat, and then reversed and surpassed the young player of the Chinese table tennis team by 2 points in the second half. At the critical moment, Chen Yuanyu chased to 7-8 and forced the Danish team to use the timeout opportunity, and then recovered 1 point 7-9 but still lost 8-11. As a result, he fell behind 1-2 and was forced into a desperate situation by his opponent.
Chen Yuanyu, who fought against the strait in the fourth game, led 2-0 from the upstairs but then lost 4 points in a row and was overtaken. The off-field coach and men's singles coach of the national table tennis team Wang Hao decisively used the timeout opportunity to guide his disciples. After returning to the arena, Chen Yuanyu overtook 6-4 and then took the ball again, and then saved the match point 8-10 and 10-11, but in the end he lost all the game 11-13, and thus missed the men's singles quarterfinals and continued to compete for the championship: It's a pity!
As mentioned earlier, Chen Yuanyu has attracted widespread attention in recent years because his playing style is very similar to Ma Long. In today's table tennis world where the big arc ball is popular, his appearance does give people a bright feeling, but he has also been pulled through the defense line by his opponent in a strong confrontation for a long time because of the low quality of the board. It is obviously not easy to replicate Ma Long's record.
Judging from recent performance, Chen Yuanyu fell outside the quarterfinals in 18 international competitions, which is incomparable to Ma Long, who had already entered the main force of the national table tennis team at the age of 20 and had the dominance of the "Two Kings and One Horse". In the future, we still need to work hard to catch up with our seniors. We hope that he can seriously summarize the experience and lessons and strive to have a better performance next time: Come on, young man!
