On July 28, Beijing time, the 2018 ITTF Australian Open kicked off a focused men's singles quarter final match. Zhou Yu led the way in the first four games twice, and was chased by Zhang Benzhi and Zhang Benzhi to a big score of 2-2. Zhou Yu had problems in receiving and serving after that. He lost 2 innings in a row and lost 2-4 to Zhang benzhihe. He was not able to reach the top four men's singles in the Australian table tennis championships.
Zhang benzhihe is undoubtedly an important opponent of the national table tennis team. In the previous competitions, he has successively defeated famous players such as fan Zhendong, Ma Long and Zhang Jike, showing a very strong upward momentum. However, in the last round of the Korean table tennis competition, Zhang Benzhi and Liang Jingkun were beaten 4-0.
As for the Australian table tennis competition, Zhang Benzhi and Chen Jian'an, a Chinese Taipei player, won 4-3 in the first two rounds, and 4-1 beat Japanese teammate Yoshio Hirano to advance to the last eight men's singles.
Zhou Yu is different from Zhang Benzhi and his seed players. He broke through the qualification competition and entered the main competition. He won 3 consecutive times in the qualification competition and entered the men's singles main competition. As for the first two rounds of the match, Zhou Yu swept Japan's toyori Niwa 4-0 and Ghana's naseka 4-0 to make it to the top eight of the men's singles, and as many as four 4-0 of the previous five consecutive wins.
However, in Zhou Yu's last encounter with Zhang benzhihe, Zhou Yu collapsed in the Japanese open at that time and was defeated by Zhang benzhihe at 0-4, which was undoubtedly a very painful defeat.
Now Zhou Yu and Zhang Benzhi meet again in the quarter finals of the men's singles of the Australian table tennis championships. In the first set of competition, Zhou Yu takes the lead to start the game with a 6-2 lead, Zhang Benzhi and Zhang Benzhi attack continuously with 2 points in pursuit, and Zhou Yu gets 2 points in a row to stabilize to the 8-4 lead. Zhang Benzhi and even got 3 points to hold the score. After Zhou Yu got another 1 point, Zhang Benzhi and continued to doggedly chase to 9-9. Zhou Yu scored 2 points in a row at the critical moment, taking the first game with 11-9 to get 1-0 lead.
In the second game, the two sides began to struggle until 3-3 draw, Zhang Benzhi and Zhou Yu got 2 points in a row, and Zhou Yu adjusted 3 points in a row in a timely manner. After that, the two sides fought from 6-6 to 10-10 in a row. Zhang Benzhi scored 2 points in a row at the end of the game to suppress Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu lost 10-12 in the second game and the two sides drew 1-1 in the first two games.
Entering the third game, Zhou Yu was suppressed in his poor starting state, 2-6 behind Zhang benzhihe, and Zhou Yu fought back to 6-6. After that, the two sides continued to struggle to 8-8 level, Zhou Yu won 2 points in a row, Zhang Benzhi and Lian got 2 points in a row to 10-10 level, and Zhou Yu suppressed Zhang Benzhi and Lian at the critical moment to get 2 points, so as to win the third game with 12-10 and gain the leading edge of 2-1.
In the fourth game, the two sides fell into the mode of tangled bucket and saw saw at the beginning of the game, and the continuous tangled bucket reached 6-6 level. Zhang Benzhi and gradually made efforts to seize the game point 10-7, Zhou Yu slightly chased points, but still lost the fourth game 9-11, the two sides continued to fight to 2-2 draw. In the fifth game, Zhou Yu was suppressed by Zhang Benzhi and was 3-7 behind the opponent. Zhou Yu could not solve the problem of receiving and serving all the time. He lost one game 5-11 again, so the total score was 2-3 behind Zhang benzhihe.
In the sixth set, Zhou Yu still fell behind Zhang benzhihe 1-8 at the beginning of the game, leading Zhou Yu to lose another set 5-11, thus losing 2-4 to Zhang benzhihe, who failed to revenge, and was not destined to enter the top four men's singles in the Australian table tennis championships.