On the evening of January 19, Beijing time, the first competition between The Olympic champions began - Ma Long, a veteran of the men's team who has not participated in the competition for months, returned to the field and cooperated with qian Tianyi, a post-00s teenager, to play in the mixed doubles, and their opponent is the World Table Tennis Championships champion combination cooperated by Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin.
The battle has not yet started, many fans have expected the result, that is, Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha won, after all, they are far better than the temporary matching of Ma Long / Qian Tianyi, whether it is the length of cooperation or the results, the result is also worthy of the expectations of the 3-0 sweep of the opponent to advance, Ma Long also became the first Olympic champion athlete to lose in this competition.
Some regrets, but not surprising: the Dragons tried their best!
Friends who pay attention to Ma Long know that the veteran has gradually faded out of the field since the end of last year's Olympic Games, first giving up participating in the men's singles event of the National Games, and then completely giving up the competition for the Houston World Table Tennis Championships with Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen.
However, before 2022 arrived, Ma Long officially announced that he would participate in the WTT Macau Competition, and signed up for the men's singles and mixed doubles events in one go. But in general, everyone is still mainly concerned about his singles performance, mixed doubles words are mainly based on the old and the new, especially the draw came up with last year's World Table Tennis Championships champion combination, if you want to win, it is very difficult.
Sure enough, after the game began, the cooperation between Ma Long/Qian Tianyi was obviously inferior to that of Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, and soon lost the first set 8-11. The second set was completely Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha's unilateral critical hit on the opponent, and he took an 8-1 lead from the beginning, did not give the master brother much opportunity to counterattack, and soon 11-5 to the next city, Ma Long/Qian Tianyi was forced into a desperate situation.
In the third set, Malone once played a high-level ball, which made the audience and friends very happy. However, the short-term excitement could not hide the lack of strength between him and Qian Tianyi, and in the end, the two lost the whole game 9-11, thus ending the mixed doubles tour of the Macau tournament and being eliminated in the first round.
How to say it, although Ma Long lost the game, but the mixed doubles was not his strength, and recently there has been no training and competition for a long time, coupled with the level of partner Qian Tianyi compared with Sun Yingsha, there is a significant gap, the two have not cooperated before, so the loss is normal, if the victory over Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha is called outrageous.
Relatively speaking, Malone's men's singles performance is the focus of everyone's attention, so can the winner who holds 7 singles World Series gold medals and 2 national games men's singles champions become the new king on the field again? Let's sit back and wait for his duel with Liang Jingkun to start!