As usual, apologies for the poor translation. but here is an article which give a little glimpse on what happened during the match, enjoy....
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Information Daily – Wang Wei
Losing due to stamina, Chen Hong: “should’ve stayed calm”
Arguing over line call disturbed the 1st seed’s mental strength, although he lead 10:0 on the first set, his game crumbled and eventually lost the match. Lost one rally, lost all.
The focus on yesterday’s match was the 3rd round match between 1st seed Chen Hong and golden boy Peter Gade, this is the match everybody was waiting for. However, none of the audience expected the 1st seed to lose 0:2 to Gade, creating the biggest upset in the tournament.
Lacking in Stamina before the match
Before 5pm yesterday, Chen Hong arrived at Tian He stadium to prepare for his match, Gade arrived not long after him. Both were preparing in the basement court, Gade was hitting with his coach while Chen was stretching on the side.
While Gade was focused, Chen felt a bit off focused. The reporters around him knew to not disturb Chen, Chen was staring at Gade. In their previous head-to-head record, Chen lose to Gade more often. However, Gade has been injured for the past 2 years, Chen meanwhile was climbing up the ranking ladder. As a result they haven’t played against each other often, Chen felt a bit uneasy.
From 10:0 lead to losing 16:17
At 6.20pm, their match started, the entire Tian He stadium are watching this one match. Chen was leading 10:0 in the first but he let Gade climb back and eventually beat Chen with 17:16. After that, Chen lost his spirit and lost the 2nd set easily too. The whole match lasted less than 30mins.
Chen lost is due to his lack in mental strength. Chen was leading 14:6 in the first set while Gade hit a what appeared to him an outside shot. Chen shouted “OUT”. However, the line judge indicted that it is in. Chen argued with the umpire who judged it as “IN”. After that, Gade fought back 2 points, 14:8, 14:9, 14:11, Gade took advantage of the situation and quickly caught up with Chen!
At this point, Chen is out of ideas. Until Gade caught up to set 14:14, Chen suddenly woke up and gained two points to 16:16. however, Chen gave the set away with an out-of-bound shot, 16:17. Gade miraculously fought back with a 10 point deficit. After that, Chen completely lost his fighting spirit.
The audience did not believe the 1st seed could be so vulnerable, so they cheered for Chen. Unfortunately, cheering is no use now, Chen never led the game from 2:2 onwards. 2:6, 4:6, 4:7, 4:8, 4:11, and eventually lost at 4:15, the empty Chen was completely destroyed by Gade.
The lucky Gade didn’t expect to beat Chen in 2 games, he raised his arm up in the air after the victory. The audience applauded Gade selflessly while Chen sat hopeless on the floor. After watching this key match, Li Yongbo went up to Chen to console him, the disappointed Chen didn’t pay much attention to him and left the arena.
Chen : I didn’t stay composed
Seeing the 1st seed losing is a big upset, around 30 reporter surrounded Chen at the entrance, they saw the hopeless face of Chen. When ask why he lost the match after a 10 point lead, Chen said, “the 1st half of the 1st game was played normally. I was clearly executing the game plan. But at 14:6, the mistake from the lineman caused me to be nervous and I failed to adjust to it.”
Chen blamed himself for losing the match, “I was affected by the questionable call, I didn’t control myself mentally. I didn’t stay calm for the 2nd game, and thus my shots were affected and went all off.” Chen thinks there is another reason, “I have not been training normally, my thinking was having problems, as a result I made a lot of mistakes during the encounter.”