Another upset! Swedish star Moregaard defeated Wang Chuqin s miserable master, and failed both Hawkeye challenges

I thought that only the national table tennis players were not suitable for the latest table used by the American Grand Slam, but I didn't expect that the outsourcing expert Moregaard encountered this Yula's table and lost his temper many times because of the table problems. With Wang Chuqin's miserable Yuuo Tanaka leading 2-0, he chased two games in a row, but at the critical moment, Hawkeye failed to challenge and lost the good game. In the end, he lost 2 points.

The US Grand Slam 32nd final was with Moregard against Japanese teenage player Yuuo Tanaka. He can be regarded as Wang Chuqin's miserable, and has never even defeated the main player of the national table tennis team. However, in the first round of the 2023 Asian Championships, he unexpectedly upset the world's second-ranked Wang Chuqin 3-2, proving that his problem-solving ability and upper limit are still very strong. The same is true for this match against Moregard. He quickly took a 6-2 lead at the start. Moregard quickly regained his state and scored the score until he tied 10-10. At the critical moment, Yuuo Tanaka was very brave and scored directly with a long ball. In the last point, Moregard also made a mistake in his forehand to win a good start.

Moregard became even more helpless in the second game. Zhang Jike once said that athletes must be good if they want to reach the top forehand. The reason why Moregard has many medals in the competition is that his forehand is very talented. However, due to the problem of the table, the ball has a fast sliding speed, strong rotation and very floating in the air. Moregaard often makes mistakes when receiving the serve with his forehand, which makes him very helpless and complaining even if he wins. After the second game was tied at 10, Moregaard made a backhand mistake, and Tanaka Yuuoti made a backhand attack and won the second game again.

I have to say that the Olympic runner-up has a strong adaptability. He found that the offense is very easy to make mistakes on this ball platform, so he simply gave up the offense and focused on the changes in defense and the changes in the hair extensions. This made Yuuo Tanaka in a mess and led 9-1 in the third game, and maintained his state in the fourth game and tied the score 11-6 again.

It is worth mentioning that in the fourth game, Moregaard was directly punished by the referee for the angle of the throwing ball. In fact, Moregaard himself explained that he felt that the throwing ball was at the left and right angles, and he was used to throwing the ball back and not paying attention to it, which caused the serve violation. During the challenge, we could see Moregaard himself open his mouth and wondered that he actually threw so many angles. Moregaard was even more lucky in the decisive game. At that time, Moregaard led 8-7. In a stalemate, Moregaard laid the ball against the side of the referee believed that the score was because his opponent Yutai Tanaka believed that the ball was a side request to challenge Hawkeye. After replaying the ball, it was indeed the side, and it was a pity that it was almost stuck to the top. After these two Hawkeye challenges, Moregaard's mentality was affected and he lost the game 12-14 in the final game.

I have to say that this new platform is really unfriendly to the top three players, and the higher the level, the more affected it will be.