Defeating the Thai player, Duc Tuan won the “Golden 10” men’s singles for Vietnamese table tennis

At the 31st Southeast Asian Games held at home, Vietnamese table tennis set a target of winning 2 gold medals, in which the focus was on the champion in the men’s singles. The most expected tennis player is Nguyen Anh Tu with the nickname Tu “mump” when he won the Southeast Asian championship. In addition, the men’s doubles content also received high targets, after winning the gold medal at the 30th SEA Games.

In the first days of competition, Vietnamese table tennis caused great disappointment. In the events of men’s team, women’s team, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, women’s singles and mixed doubles, our players were all underpowered. The target of winning 2 gold medals “broken” too quickly and Vietnamese table tennis faced the possibility of empty-handed with gold aspirations.

However, when expectations dropped sharply, Vietnamese table tennis suddenly won a gold medal in men’s singles. The word “SURPRISE” can be affirmed by capitalizing and respecting it because when Tu “mu” could not be in the final due to unstable play and bad luck, Nguyen Duc Tuan rose to become a hero. .

Only considered a potential candidate and did not have too much hope in the men’s singles, but Duc Tuan performed extremely well. In the final match with Thai player Phakpoom Sanguansin, Duc Tuan won 4-1 (11-7, 11-9, 8-11, 11-7, 13-11).

In the semi-finals, Duc Tuan played extremely well and defeated Clarence Chew (Singapore, ranked 126 in the world). With faith and sublimation, Duc Tuan made the fans at Hai Duong Gymnasium so excited in the final match.

Notably, 19 years ago, Thailand’s Sanguansin lost to Tran Tuan Quynh in the men’s singles final of the 22nd SEA Games in 2003. 19 years have passed and since Tran Tuan Quynh’s success, Vietnamese table tennis cannot yet. conquered the throne in the men’s singles. Therefore, Duc Tuan’s final match with Sanguansin received more attention.

In the first 2 sets, Duc Tuan won. In the third set, Sanguansin won 11-8 and created drama mixed with tension.

In the 4th set, the Thai player started well and had a 3-0 lead at one point. But Duc Tuan played very focused, had a 6-point winning streak to lead 6-3 and ended this set with the score 11-7.

In the important 4th set, the two players struggled for every point and brought the match to the highest level of drama. The score is sometimes 10-10, 11-11. In the decisive situation, Duc Tuan had extremely accurate and effective shots to score 2 precious points like “Golden 10”, closed the set with a score of 13-11 and won 4-1 in the end.

Although Vietnamese table tennis did not fulfill the target of winning 2 gold medals at the 31st SEA Games, Duc Tuan’s men’s singles champion is considered to have “removed” all previous failures in 6 competitions.