Malone's comeback was "a round trip", and he played the mixed doubles for the first time after 2009

On the 19th, the 2022 International Table Tennis "Opening Year Drama" - WTT (World Table Tennis Professional League) Macau Championships was launched at the Macau Ta shek Stadium. Ma Long, the returning captain of the national table tennis team, made his debut in the mixed doubles international arena since the 2009 Asian Championships, and suffered a "round trip" 0-3.

The competition lasted for five days and consisted of three events: men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles, each with 16 signatures. The Chinese team sent all the key players to participate, veterans Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen "re-emerged", and the new Olympic champions Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha were also in the lineup.

Among them, Malone double-line combat, participating in the singles and mixed doubles events. Malone's last mixed doubles competition at an international event was in November 2009, when he won four gold medals, including mixed doubles with Li Xiaoxia. This time back to the mixed doubles arena, the partner of the "Dragon Team" was replaced by the "post-00" new Qian Tianyi. The latter, who won the Singles Title, Mixed Doubles and Women's Doubles Runner-up at the World Youth Championships, was named to the Women's Doubles squad at the World Table Tennis Championships last November, but defeated Ito Mimachi /Hina Hayata in the semi-finals with Chen Meng.

On the evening of the 19th, Ma Long/Qian Tianyi ushered in the first match of the championship. Facing former Youth Olympic and Asian Games champions and Xinke single world champion Wang Chuqin /Sun Yingsha, the two began to compete fiercely with each other, and then gradually fell behind in the second half of the set, 8-11. The two lost 5-11 in the second set. In the third set, Malone/Qian Tianyi scored three consecutive points to tie the game when they led 5-2. Although Malone requested a timely timely timely timer, he was unable to save the situation, losing another set at 9-11, thus stopping the first round.

On the evening of the 20th, Ma Long will also play in the men's singles competition as the No. 2 seed, and start the first round of competition with the No. 5 seed Liang Jingkun.