Billiards》Guo Guanhong’s Japan T-League debut was a success! Overcoming 43-year-old star Hao Shuai to help Ryukyu team win

The 18-year-old Tainan young player Guo Guanhong made his debut in the Japan Professional Table Tennis T-League today and defeated the 43-year-old Chinese veteran Hao Shuai in straight games, helping the Ryukyu Future Suns reverse the Okayama Rivets 3:1. The current record is 7 wins and 5 losses, second only to the Kanazawa Ports.

Guanhong Guo, ranked 32nd in the world, signed a contract with the Ryukyu team in August this year. He is also the fourth Taiwanese male player to join the Japanese T-League this year after Lin Yunru, Zhang Youan and Gao Chengrui. However, in order to prepare for the Nagoya Asian Games, Asian Championships and WTT events, he did not apply for a Japanese work visa until the end of October. He finally made his debut today.

The Ryukyu team launched the cross-border combination of Yoshimura Maharu and South Korea's Zhao Shengmin in the first doubles, and lost to Okayama team's Hao Shuai/Matsuyama Yuuki 9:11, 11:10, 9:11; Oshima Yuya then lost 4:11, 11:8, At 11:10, 5:11, 11:9, he defeated Mizuki Oikawa and regained a victory for the Ryukyu team. In the third confrontation, Zhao Shengmin also defeated Japan's Rheinland Ruhr World Universiade national player Yokotani Makoto with 11:10, 11:5, 11:9.

Hao Shuai, who has won 2 silvers and 2 bronzes in doubles at the World Championships in his career, is still active in the Japanese T-League in recent years. Facing the experienced Hao Shuai, Guo Guanhong showed the speed of a young player, scoring 6 points in a row to open the lead after falling behind 1:2 in the first game. Poor, Xianchi got a point at 11:6; in the second game, although his opponent resolved 2 consecutive game points at 10:8, he still won the game at 11:10 without any risk. In the third game, Xiao Guo also withstood the pressure at 9 and scored 2 points in a row, and the red plate was opened at 11:9.

Coach Jiang Penglong, who accompanied Guo Guanhong to Japan, said that Guo has always played well against left-handed players, and today he also volunteered to play against Hao Shuai. Apart from being a little nervous at the start of the Japanese T-League for the first time, his overall performance was pretty good, and he also had the upper hand in the stalemate. It was a good start. The Ryukyu team will continue to face the TT Saitama team at home tomorrow, and Guo Guanhong is also expected to play.