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Shame! The King of Civil War stops in the first round of the Chinese Grand Slam, Fans: How to get to the World Cup at this level

12:19am, 30 September 2025【Football】

Text | Front-line Melon Eating Mushroom

Editor | Front-line Melon Eating Mushroom

On September 29, the first day of the Chinese Grand Slam competition ended. The national table tennis team sent a total of 33 people to participate, and so far 9 people have been eliminated.

Among the five people who were eliminated in men's singles, Xu Yingbin's elimination made it difficult for fans to understand. After all, in the just-concluded National Table Tennis World Cup selection, Xu Yingbin ranked first and successfully won the Chengdu World Cup quota.

can have such excellent performance in the internal competition of the Chinese table tennis team, but in the foreign war, he did not even pass the first round, which made the fans unable to bear it. They all said that he is just the "king of civil war"?

Xu Yingbin was eliminated in an upset, and 6 people from the national table tennis team were eliminated in the first round of the Grand Slam. Xu Yingbin played against 17-year-old French young player Flavian Cotton. He originally thought that Xu Yingbin would win easily, but was directly beaten by his opponent with a 0:3.

The whole game took a total of 26 minutes, and Xu Yingbin made constant mistakes. He was not as good as his opponent in the competition for key points. After losing 10-12 in the second game, Xu Yingbin also completely collapsed. He was directly scored a huge score difference of 6-11 in the third game, and finally won the game.

He also became the second national table tennis men's singles player to be eliminated in the main competition.

The first one to be eliminated was Xue Fei, who was the first to play. It was probably because Xue Fei was studied by his opponent after defeating Zhang Benzhihe and was "pressed" by the 18-year-old Japanese table tennis player throughout the game.

Plus the three players who were eliminated in the qualifying round and Wen Ruibo who was eliminated. In this way, 6 players in the men's singles of the national table tennis team have been eliminated. In the first 5 games of the national table tennis team, only 3 players won:

Zhou Qihao 3:0 Pei Huan [11-7, 11-5, 11-2];

Xiang Peng 3:0 Adrian Lasson Foss [11-7, 11-4, 11-7]

Wang Chuqin 3:0 Zhang Yuzhen [11-2, 11-9, 11-9]

Xiang Peng, who performed poorly in several competitions, has recovered in his condition, while Wang Chuqin is still the "stabilizing needle" of our team. For eliminated players, Xue Fei still needs to be prepared for two items. Fans can understand that others have been eliminated, but Xu Yingbin's performance is still criticized by fans.

"Civil War King" lost repeatedly to foreign stations

Since the age of 4 and a half, Xu Yingbin, who entered the sports school at the age of 7, is also a genius. As early as 13 years old, he won the singles championship of the National Youth Table Tennis Competition (Northern Division) and was selected for the national second team a year later.

At this time, his name as "King of Civil War" gradually began to appear. In the 20-person exchange match of the 1st and 2nd National Table Tennis Team, 17-year-old Xu Yingbin successfully promoted to the National First Team with a record of 17 wins and 2 losses.

In this table tennis super field, Fan Zhendong, who had just returned, met Xu Yingbin in the first game. As a result, Xu Yingbin took the lead 2:0. Although he lost to Fan Zhendong in the end 2:3, it is enough to prove his strength.

In the third stage of the Table Tennis Super League, Xu Yingbin lost only 1 game in 6 singles games, but also defeated Wang Chuqin. He scored 11-6 in the first game, and in the end, he won the game with a small advantage of 12-10, ending Wang Chuqin's 13 consecutive wins in the Table Tennis Super League.

In the Chengdu ITTF mixed group World Cup at the end of this year, the Chinese men's table tennis team will send 4 people to participate in the battle. The selection method is to see who can win, and three of them directly qualified.

men's team head coach Wang Hao said:

"Wang Chuqin is ranked first in the world in singles, Lin Shidong is ranked first in the world in mixed doubles, Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin are ranked highest in the world in the team, so the three of them are directly qualified."

The last place to participate is selected based on the recent ranking of the top 50 and the international singles and doubles championships, but Lin Gaoyuan Due to personal reasons, only 7 people were left:

Top 50: Xiang Peng, Chen Yuanyu, Zhou Qihao, Wen Ruibo, Xue Fei;

Doha World Table Tennis Championships won the international singles and doubles championships: Yuan Licen and Xu Yingbin

Xu Yingbin eliminated Wen Ruibo and Xiang Peng one after another, and successfully defeated Yuan Licen in the finals. The scores were 3:1 in three games, and he won the last place to participate.

But someone had already questioned Xu Yingbin as early as the selection period. After losing this game, Xu Yingbin was questioned more. Originally, his strength was not bad, because he always lost to foreign wars and his growth failed to meet expectations. His current ranking is also outside the 50th place.

The team's major project requires everyone to be online, and everyone has no such doubts on the women's team. The head coach of the women's team Ma Lin said:

"In addition to Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, our coaching team agreed that Kuai Man, who performed outstandingly in the mixed doubles and women's doubles events in the near future, will also directly qualify for the competition."

The last place, 16 women's table tennis players participated in the selection competition, and Wang Yidi defeated Chen Yi and Shi Xunyao in the second stage to get the quota, while Chen Xingtong, who ranked third in the world, lost 1:3 to Shi Xunyao..

A blogger analyzed our lineup and asked questions, should Xu Yingbin play doubles or singles, or should he be used as a sparring coach for the national table tennis team?

Some fans said that this is the World Cup, why haven’t Fan Zhendong been recalled? If he comes, we will be more stable.

However, Xu Yingbin also has men's doubles. He cooperates with his old teammate Yuan Licen, it depends on his doubles performance and how the two head coaches arrange their troops.

And this game will only be held at the end of November. Before that, we should still focus on the Grand Slam and see how the women's singles are currently in the situation.

3 national table tennis women's singles were eliminated

In the first day of the main competition, the Chinese table tennis chopper Zhu Ziyu lost to Zhu Yuling, and he still needed more experience. After all, Zhu Yuling had a stronger chopper like Hashimoto before.

Another chopper, Yang Yiyun, faced her opponent Akula, was restrained and she had no way to cut the ball with her opponent. She eventually lost. Both of them were played from the qualifying match, but it was a bit regrettable to eliminate the first round of the main game. In addition to these two athletes, one of them fell in the second round of the qualifying round. Yao Ruixuan was defeated while leading 2:1 with Chinese player Zhang Xuan.

The Chinese team schedule on September 29th, but Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi and other players have also successfully advanced to the next round, and we look forward to the next performance of the national table tennis team members.

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