In the WTT Grand Slam arena, after Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha defeated opponents Pitcheford and teammate Kuman respectively to advance to the men's and women's singles round of 16, in the position of the first stage, we ushered in a head-on confrontation between double-lap Grand Slam winner Malone and African brother Aruna. Although this player is difficult to form an absolute competitive situation with Malone in terms of world rankings and overall strength, Aruna's style of play is relatively free and flowing, or his playing style is a bit of a messy punch to kill the teacher's style, so for Malone, winning is an inevitable, but the process still needs to make sufficient preparations, and to fight for his control of the game and various changes in the process of the game, in order to strive to win the final victory in the most economical way.
The first game of the game can be said to be completely within the control of Malone, and Malone entered the state very quickly. He took a 3-0 lead at the beginning of the game and continued to pull the gap to 6-1 in the middle of the set, whether it was the continuity of the first three boards, or the combination of drop points and line changes, as well as the rush to attack, Malone continued to prove his comprehensive ability as a hexagonal warrior, with a direct rush to score with a midfielder's pursuit of the ball, Malone easily won the first set 11-4. However, the second game of the game was somewhat unexpected by the fans. Also as we said earlier, Aruna's playing style itself is not a fixed style, free and flowing is easy for Marlon to find a point of contention with the other side on the field, in this chaotic battle, Aruna instead caused a lot of offensive threat to Malone, and at the beginning of the game to take the lead, and has been this big score lead until the end, 11-5, Aruna with his freestyle style and returned Malone a big score single game win, The two men formed a big 1-1 draw in the set, and the third set of the game naturally became very crucial for Malone and Aruna.
At the beginning of the third set, Malone saw the characteristics of Aruna's style, deliberately adjusted his offensive rhythm, and at the same time tried to end the battle in the first three boards at the end of the serve, and sure enough, he took a 5-2 opening lead in the third set. However, Aruna then drew 5-5 between the two sides due to Malone's own offensive mistakes. Malone scored in the changing line of the backhand backhand, as well as the direct score of the serve, coupled with the backhand attack caused Aruna to return the ball to the net, once again taking an 8-5 lead. Although Aruna also had a beautiful back-pull straight, Malone scored directly in his own serve round, and after the two sides played a tiebreaker to form a stalemate, they pulled back straight again, 11-6, malone went down again, thus taking a 2-1 lead on the big score.
In the fourth set of the game, Aruna still played very tenaciously in the case of a big score behind, and his style of play did make Malone often unable to fully enter his own rhythm when returning the ball, sometimes his return ball was also a little prejudged, the preparation for the next board could not be fully kept up, the score of the two people was also a stalemate, the two sides from 5-5 to 6-6, 7-7 draw, Malone in the case of 9-7 lead, but also Aruna's rebound score and chase ball score once again equalized the score, In the case of the two sides playing 9-9, Malone took the initiative to call a timeout for himself, although the game was very screwed up, and it seemed that the scene did not fully distance, but Malone still scored the last key points at the last key moment, so as to go down to the next city 11-9, and eliminated Aruna with a total score of 3-1 (11-4, 5-11, 11-6, 11-9) to advance to the men's singles round of 16. In the next round, Ma Long will once again accept Wang Chuqin's challenge. Since in the last Macau match, Ma Long lost to Wang Chuqin and missed the final men's singles quarterfinals, so this time is an opportunity for both sides. I look forward to Ma Long and Wang Chuqin can bring us more exciting duels.