Fan Zhendong is also a point back.
Last year's WTT Macau Championship, Fan Zhendong failed to make the trip for some reasons; this year, Fan Zhendong with the National Games champion, the World Table Tennis Champion, the World Cup Finals champion, the world's first class honor in one, finally came to Macao, did not expect to lose to Xu Yingbin in the quarter-finals, early exit from the championship competition, it is estimated that no one could have imagined such a result before the start of the match; even in the men's singles final, when Wang Chuqin and Lin Gaoyuan were fighting fiercely, the cameraman also gave Fan Zhendong several meaningful close-up shots in the audience Because of the competitions in the past year or so, the men's singles final, Fan Zhendong is on the stage.
For Fan Zhendong, who just celebrated his 25th birthday, the real "threat" came from within the team.
Wang Chuqin, the men's singles champion of this event, has made no secret of his desire to win, and has also proved with strength that he also has the strength to win the championship. Although he did not win against Fan Zhendong in the international arena, the score of each confrontation between the two sides was quite glue.
There are also Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun, Xu Xin, and Ma Long, all of whom are equal opponents of Fan Zhendong.
Including Xu Yingbin, Yuan Licen, Lin Shidong, Xiang Peng and other post-00s young generations, are thriving and have also formed a certain degree of challenge.
If you say that in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, the national table tennis men's team echelon seems to be a bit green and yellow, and the "hexagonal warrior" Ma Long has to continue to carry the meaning of the big flag, when Fan Zhendong was still a challenger; in the current Paris Olympic cycle, the three generations of national table tennis old and young people are full of talents, and Fan Zhendong, who played in the year of playing, will inevitably face multiple challenges in the team.
The loss to Xu Yingbin in this game was a bit of a surprise, but fortunately it was not a foreign war. Fan Zhendong, who stands in the position of the leader of the new generation of national table tennis, cannot give the players of the foreign association a little hope of victory over him, and this psychological suppression may play an absolute role in the key moments of the key competition; just like the Tokyo Olympic semi-finals, Ma Long narrowly defeated Ocharov 4:3, and Fan Zhendong narrowly defeated Lin Yunru 4:3, relying on the "I will definitely win you" confidence.
Now is the best era of the national table tennis men's team, and it is also the stage when Fan Zhendong challenges the greatest pressure!