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Reversing the four-time champion of the National Table Tennis World Youth Championships, Lin Yunru will compete with Wang Chuqin for tickets to the 2025 Asian Cup finals

On the evening of the 22nd, Chinese Taipei's first brother Lin Yunru went through an epic 7-game battle in the men's singles quarterfinals of the 34th Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament, and finally reversed the 19-year-old Chinese rising star Huang Youzheng 4:3, breaking into the top 4 for the first time, and is also the third Chinese Taipei player in history to advance to the top 4 of the Asian Cup men's singles after Jiang Penglong and Zhuang Zhiyuan.

Lin Yunru defeated Chinese rookie Huang Youzheng and entered the men's singles semi-finals for the first time

World No. 54 Huang Youzheng is a new generation of Chinese players, who won the men's singles title at the National Championships last year and the "Quadruple Crown" at the World Junior Championships at the end of the year, and is also Lin Yunru's teammate in Shandong Weiqiao, the Table Tennis Super League.

This Asian Cup Huang Youzheng was reused, and he also showed the strength of succession, defeating the world's fourth-ranked Tomokazu Zhang and South Korean rookie Wu Huicheng in the group preliminaries, winning the first place in the group with 3 consecutive wins, and then reversing the Korean good player Zhao Dacheng 3:1 in the round of 16, and broke into the top 8 in the first competition.

Facing the rising star, Lin Yunru, ranked 14th in the world, gave his opponent a slap in the first game with 11:7, but in the second game, Lin Yunru missed 3 final points when he was leading 10:7 and was reversed at 11:13. In the 3rd game, Lin Yunru overcame the 0:6 deficit at the beginning and took the lead in getting the game point 10:9, but after being resolved by Huang Youzheng by 1 game point, he lost 10:12.

Lin Yunru, who got the game point first in every game, decisively called a timeout after being saved by the opponent for 2 game points in the 4th game, and this time he won the forehand backhand and tied the game 11:9. In the key 5th game, Lin Yunru was led by 10:9 again, and was continuously rushed by the opponent's forehand, conceded 10:12, and fell behind 2:3 in the number of games.

Lin Yunru, who had no way out, fought in the 6th game, equalized the game again at 11:8, and overcame the opening 2:4 behind in the decisive game, and even scored 5 points to overtake 7:4, Huang Youzheng did not give up, chasing all the way to 9 draws. At the decisive moment, Lin Yunru first appeared lucky to rub the edge ball when the two sides held the ball, and then won the forehand grab, winning 11:9, and will compete with the world's No. 2 Wang Chuqin for the men's singles final ticket on the 23rd.

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