The International Table Tennis Federation world tour Japan Open ended in Sapporo on the evening of 16th, and the Chinese team strongly won all five championships. Among them, Xu Xin, the veteran of the men’s team, had three characters, and finally all reached the top. He was given a nickname of “Xu Sanguan” by the fans.
29-year-old Xu Xin ranked third in the world in singles last week, and doubles are even better known as “Golden left hand. In the mixed doubles final, which took the lead on the 15th, Zhu Yuling, who was his first partner, went straight to three games, defeating the host Group Zhang Benzhi and/morning Tian Shina, and won the mixed doubles championship of the tour after two stops for the country.
Yesterday, Xu Xin ushered in three matches a day. First, he fought hard in seven games in the men’s singles semi-final, eliminating Fan Zhendong, who ranked first in the world, and joined hands with the latter to defeat a pair of German teams in the man Pair Final. In the men’s singles final of the finale, Xu Xin appeared again, with 11 to 9, 14 to 12, 8 to 11, 11 to 3 and 11 to 8 like, Taiwan, China, Xinxiu Lin Xiaoru.
At the World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest in April this year, Xu Xin was not able to beat the French player goats in the third round of men’s singles. The single world table tennis championships in the sixth World War still missed the final, it cast a shadow over the competition for the “tickets” of the Tokyo Olympic Games. After the promotion to the final of the Japanese competition, Xu Xin said bluntly that it was the setback of the World Table Tennis Championships that made him more eager for victory and hoped to make up for the mistakes of the competition with the excellent performance of the small competitions. “I also made a summary after the World Table Tennis Championships, I hope to welcome the following competition with a new mentality and state. This time I felt that my mentality and the hard work on the court went back to a few years ago and found the feeling of preparing for the Rio Olympics.”
And yesterday, Xu Xin also lived up to expectations and won the two off-site battles. “I am very happy to get the third crown, but I didn’t think too much about the results before the match. I just want to do my best in every project without regret.” The veteran who played 13 games in 3 days laughed and said that he was “really tired” at this time “. However, he has already aimed at the South Korean Open in early July. “I will have three more at that time. I have to practice my body stronger when I go back.”
In the women’s singles final, 18-year-old “little devil” Sun Yingsha and Xinke world table tennis champion Liu Shiwen fought hard for 61 minutes, winning 4-3, and “closed” in the open for the second time “. In the game, Sun Yingsha won two games first, and then was pulled three games by the opponent. But she adjusted in time, and finally Rick was a strong enemy. “We are familiar with each other. I started faster at the beginning. Later, I fell behind and didn’t worry. Instead, I patiently looked for a breakthrough.” Sun Yingsha said that he hoped to win the championship to improve himself more.
In addition, in the women’s double final, Chen Meng/Liu Shiwen defeated Sun Yingsha/Wang Manzhen, the champion team of this year’s World Table Tennis Championship, 3-1.