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Lin Shidong overwhelms Kirill Gerassimenko, closes with 11-1 finale

Lin Shidong sealed a straight-games win over Kirill Gerassimenko at the WTT Singapore Smash, finishing the match with an emphatic 11-1 final game in WTT highlights.

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Lin Shidong overwhelms Kirill Gerassimenko, closes with 11-1 finale
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Lin Shidong overwhelmed Kirill Gerassimenko in a straight-games victory that World Table Tennis highlighted on YouTube, with the clip saying Lin sealed the match by "sealing it with an 11-1 in the final game" and the original report noting the finish came "amid explosive rallies" that underscored Lin's "commanding play."

The outcome is contested by a live-score entry on TableTennisScores, which lists a meeting between Gerassimenko and Lin under "WTT: WTT Star Contender Goa 2023." That page shows the per-set numbers in the order presented there as Gerassimenko 11, Lin 8 for set one; Gerassimenko 4, Lin 11 for set two; Gerassimenko 4, Lin 11 for set three; and Gerassimenko 5, Lin 11 for set four. Interpreted from Lin's perspective, those rows read as a 3–1 win for Lin with set scores 8–11, 11–4, 11–4, 11–5.

Aiscore's head-to-head summary corroborates a single meeting between the pair and records Lin as the winner. Aiscore states, "The Teams Lin Shidong and Kirill Gerassimenko played 1 Games up to today. Among them, Lin Shidong won 1 games ( 3 at Total Sets ...)" and notes the H2H statistics were updated on 2026/02/24 at 19:45, which aligns with a 3–1 match result rather than a fourth-set 11-1 scoreline.

The discrepancy centers on event identity and the final-game score: World Table Tennis highlights and the accompanying YouTube title present a Singapore Smash finish capped 11-1, while TableTennisScores places a 11-5 fourth game at a Goa 2023 fixture. Both cannot describe the same per-set numbers simultaneously. Possible explanations are that the WTT highlights refer to a Singapore Smash encounter with an 11-1 close, or TableTennisScores is recording a separate meeting at Goa 2023 or has a transcription error in its event label or final-game detail.

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Given World Table Tennis is the source of the highlights clip, the emphatic 11-1 finale is best attributed to WTT's posted video until the official match sheet is consulted. Official WTT match sheets and the WTT event results page will provide the authoritative per-set breakdown and confirm whether the 11-1 finish occurred at the Singapore Smash or whether TableTennisScores reflects a separate Goa 2023 entry.

For now, the concrete facts are: Lin Shidong beat Kirill Gerassimenko in straight games as shown in WTT highlights and the head-to-head between the two stands at 1–0 in Lin's favor per Aiscore (H2H updated 2026/02/24 19:45). Whether the final game was 11-1 or 11-5 rests with the official WTT match documentation; whichever the exact number, Lin closed the contest decisively and reinforced the commanding form noted in the World Table Tennis coverage.

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