On the followingnoon of March 27th, Beijing time, the 2022 World Table Tennis Major League (WTT) Star Challenge Doha Station will start the first day of competition. In women’s singles, Chinese player Fan Siqi, who had just won the regular challenge match, faced Japan’s Miyu Kato. In the end, Fan Siqi was tragically reversed by his opponent following winning two games first, 2-3 (11-9, 12-10, 9 -11, 7-11 and 9-11) lost to Kato Miyu and stopped in the first round of the main game.
In the first game, Miyu Kato started with a 2-0 and 4-2 lead. In the middle game, Fan Siqi made good use of his serving rounds and tied the score to 4. After that, the two fought all the way from 5 to 7. At the end of the game, both sides scored two consecutive points in the opponent’s serving round, and the battle was tied at 9. Fan Siqi, who was more calm at the critical moment, scored two points in a row, taking the lead 11-9.
Another battle in another place, following a lucky roll of tennis, Kato Miyu took the lead 3-1. Since then, the two have attacked and defended each other, and the Japanese girl is still three points ahead when entering the middle. In the 3-6 situation, Fan Siqi took the initiative to get started, and the backhand twist and pull when receiving the serve worked, and he scored three consecutive points to tie the score. Then the situation fell into a stalemate once more, and the score changed from 7 to 10 all the way. At the critical moment, Miyu Kato repeated the same mistakes and lost two points in a row, and Fan Siqi won another game 12-10.
After 2 draws in the third game, Fan Siqi scored two points in a row to force his opponent to call a timeout. During the pause, the Japanese girl squatted on the ground with a water bottle in both hands, looking very unhappy. After coming back from the suspension, Kato Miyu obviously increased the fighting strength and quickly chased the score to 5 ties. After that, the two joined hands 8-8 to enter the final game. In the final stage, Miyu Kato scored consecutively. At one point, they held two game points 10-8 and finally pulled back a game 11-9.
In the fourth game, the two sides started fighting together. After 3 draws, Kato Miyu scored 6 points in a row to see the dawn of victory. Although Fan Siqi saved 2 game points following being 5-10 behind, in the end, the Japanese girl hit a forehand slash and dragged the game into the tiebreaker 11-7.
After 3 draws in the fifth game, Fan Siqi scored two points in a row to switch sides. In the next game, Miyu Kato chased hard and changed the score to 6-7 before entering the final game. At this moment, Fan Siqi called a timeout. After the suspension came back, Fan Siqi launched a serve directly and let the two enter the end game side by side 8-8. After that, the two battled to a 9-level draw. In the next round of her serving, Fan Siqi offered a slashing serve, but it had no effect. After two stalemates, the introduction of the forehand made her finally lose the game 9-11. Even the whole game, unfortunately stopped in the first round.
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