WTT Grand Slam" crossed the national player walk threshold and became the biggest motivation! Feng Yixin narrowly lost to Songdao: Wrong tactics

Feng Yixin has reached the top 8 of the Chinese Grand Slam, and his world ranking will be significantly improved. (Taken from WTT official website)

[Reporter Xu Mingli/Report from Taipei] Heku player Feng Yixin lost 1:4 to Japan's new world champion Terukora Matsushima in the men's singles quarter-finals of the WTT China Grand Slam today. He suffered a 4-game losing streak and still scored the highest score in his career. With 580 points, the world ranking will rise sharply from 40th to around 30th next week, setting a new career best. Not only will he surpass the 17-year-old Guo Guanhong and regain the position of Taiwan's second brother, he will also be confirmed to qualify for next year's national player.

The 23-year-old Feng Yixin said that reaching the top 40 in the world and crossing the national player recommendation threshold, and not having to play ranking qualifying rounds, are his biggest motivations in recent games. Although he has achieved his goal ahead of schedule before today's match against Matsushima Terukora, he still hopes to try his best and gain more points.

Feng Yixin had a fierce battle with Matsushima Terukora in the European Grand Slam in August and lost 2:3 in 5 games. However, he lost the first two games today at 2:11 and 7:11 too quickly. He said that he mobilized too slowly at the beginning today, played very passively, and made wrong tactics. The return ball was not placed well and kept hitting the opponent's hand. He felt that Matsushima had specially studied him after losing 2 games in the European Grand Slam. Several goals today were accurately predicted by the opponent.

In the third game, Feng Yixin scored 7 points in a row at 5:10, performing an incredible reversal. In an interview after the game, Songdao also said that he regretted not calling a timeout in that game. Xiao Feng said that in the third game, he gradually adapted to Songdao's speed. He didn't think too much when his opponent was drawing cards. He had the attitude that if he could win by 1 point, it would be 1 point, and he waited for his opponent to make mistakes, and some balls happened to hit him.

Although he advanced all the way to the top 8 this time and created a personal best, he still felt that his own strength was insufficient when he played against the world's No. 1 Terukora Matsushima. "After defeating the German player yesterday, my confidence returned, but today I was beaten by Matsushima and I lost confidence."