The spectators left Shougang Park with a surprising feeling. Table tennis world fifth Truls Möregårdh had nothing to set against 33rd-ranked Japanese Yukiya Uda, lost with 1–3 and was eliminated in the tournament in Beijing already in the eighth final.
The Swede pondered on something else.
In the 23-year-old's thoughts, the feeling in the knee that he operated on five years ago was spinning.
Not that it made so much in this match, he was anyway all too good. But it's a slightly scary feeling I've had in my knee, he says to SVT.
”Pain”
The Swede says that he has had the feeling before.
Sometimes it hurts more than other times, and I have not felt it for a while now. But it's a weird knee I have actually, and you can ask every doctor in Sweden about it, I think. It's hard to put into words what's wrong with my knee, he says.
It's a stabbing pain that hurts a lot sometimes, and which is not so nice to play with.
Möregårdh tells SVT that he is not interested in another knee operation.
That far I do not want to go. But of course, I usually know what it looks like in the knee, and I know what all doctors usually say, and that is that I should take it easy. Because there are a few things that are not quite right, as it should be in a "real" knee.
Eliminated in Beijing
In the eighth final, Truls Möregårdh got a perfect start and led with 8–3 in the first set. Then it went quickly downhill. The left-handed Japanese accelerated past the Swede with a lightning-fast return game and a merciless forehand – and took himself to the quarterfinal.
For the Swedish star, the tournament in China ended. A result that means he misses out on both ranking points and a larger part of the prize money.
Even Kristian Karlsson was eliminated in the eighth final. The Swede lost to the Chinese Lin Shidong with 1–3.
