On April 11, Beijing time, the 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships entered the third competition day. In the men's team semi-final in the afternoon, the Chinese men's team faced the Chinese Taipei team. In this game, the Chinese team sent men's table tennis main force Fan Zhendong as the first singles, Ma Long and Zhang Jike as the second and third respectively No. The three players sent by the Chinese Taipei team are Chen Jianan, , Liao Zhenzhen and young player Yang Hengwei.
In the first set, Fan Zhendong, ranked second in the world, took the lead to face Chen Jianan, a famous table tennis player from Chinese Taipei. Chen Jianan is a left-handed horizontal player with a delicate hand. Known to many fans. The two players with similar styles of play played a little fiercely at the beginning of the first game, and the score rose alternately to 6 draws, but Fan Zhendong won 11:7 with higher batting quality. Chen Jian'an, who entered the second game, fought fiercely and got a strong start of 3:0, but was reversed by Fan Zhendong and went to the next game. In the third game, Fan Zhendong's offensive and defensive transitions were smooth, and Chen Jian'an had nothing to do at this time. At 11:5, Fan Zhendong scored the first point of the game in three straight games.
The national table tennis captain Ma Long played in the second set. His opponent was Liao Zhenyu, a young player born in 1996. In the end, Ma Long won 3:0. In the first game, Liao Zhenyu still showed his impact as a young player, and his backhand was also lethal, but he still lost the game 6:11 against the "impenetrable" Ma Long. In the next two rounds, Ma Long did not give his opponent too many chances, and won 11:5 and 11:7 respectively by virtue of his accurate judgment of the opponent's ball placement and rich experience.
Zhang Jike and Yang Hengwei played against each other in the third set. In the first game, Zhang Jike entered the state slowly, and the two sides played very fiercely. The score once entangled and rose to 11 draws. As Zhang Jike backhanded the ball to the opponent's forehand to score, 13:11, Zhang Jike won the first game. In the second game, Yang Hengwei strengthened the quality of the first three boards. Zhang Jike was in a passive state from the beginning and was pulled back by his opponent. In the third game, Zhang Jike reversed the situation and won under the unfavorable start. A timeout at the critical moment was praised by Yang Ying in the commentary. In the last game, Zhang Jike fully released his state and won 11:8, which also means that the Chinese team defeated their opponents 3:0 and advanced to the final.
According to the schedule, the men's team finals will start at 14:00 tomorrow. It is worth mentioning that for tomorrow's game, what lineup will the head coach Qin Zhijian send to the game? The "Three Musketeers" of the Rio Olympics still have the same lineup as today, let us wait and see.
