This game between Ma Long and Wang Chuqin, let us see that Wang Chuqin and Ma Long still have some gaps, Wang Chuqin is gradually narrowing the gap with Ma Long in terms of strength, but in terms of mentality, Ma Long is the ceiling, and Wang Chuqin is still wandering in the middle, every time there is too much psychological baggage in the decider, resulting in a lot of techniques and tactics not being played out, it can be seen that Ma Long is more active in the decider, and Wang Chuqin has lost the aura of the previous few innings. In the end, he did not qualify.
Malone 3:2 Wang Chuqin (12-10 6-11 8-11 11-5 11-6)
The first game, like this kind of game that can not be relaxed, who enters the state quickly, can grasp the opportunity, the two are too familiar, even Ma Long wants to control Wang Chuqin, it is not so easy, Ma Long's tactic is to try to mobilize Wang Chuqin's forehand angle, so that Wang Chuqin more to protect the platform. Then under the advantage of two points, Wang Chuqin was put more pressure. And Malone himself is doing a good job of quick connection, which is a very important point. After all, Wang Chuqin's speed and veneer quality also belong to the top level.
Wang Chuqin's game is more in cooperation with Ma Long, there is not much active offensive tactics, because Ma Long restricts Wang Chuqin's vigorous attack, And Ma Long's ball is somewhat fluttering, so that Wang Chuqin has no point to take the initiative to exert his strength when returning the ball. In this way, Wang Chuqin's advantage will gradually decrease. Malone, on the other hand, posed a threat to Wang Chuqin.
In the second set, Wang Chuqin increased his efforts in terms of serving and grabbing, at least to get a score in his own serve to be able to consider at least one point in the Malone service, but it is really difficult to get the innings from Malone, Wang Chuqin still has to strengthen his offensive initiative.
In the case of a 6-4 lead, Wang Chuqin's active attack got a point from Ma Long's hand, and the score gap quickly opened, which is the tactical play that Wang Chuqin needs to implement, taking the initiative to attack, even if he loses to Ma Long, there is no regret, this game is won, or thanks to Wang Chuqin's active attack. Malone's pace was indeed slower.
In the third game, Wang Chuqin continued to strengthen the attack, using his speed and strength to cause an impact on Ma Long, and the state was getting better and better, Ma Long encountered certain difficulties in this game, or he still needed to control Wang Chuqin through rhythm changes, and could not let him blindly attack. This will become more and more difficult.
7-3, the score gap is getting bigger and bigger, Ma Long should not eat the serve, coupled with Wang Chuqin's strength to attack, Ma Long's tactics at this time have a certain change, no longer and Wang Chuqin hard. There are also more and more balls in the table. Malone chased the score to 8-10 through the serve, and the change of the first three boards, and Wang Chuqin called a timeout. Hoping to win this game, Wang Chuqin came back from a suspension to lead 2-1.
In the fourth set, Ma Long came up to take the lead, but Ma Long still hoped to suppress Wang Chuqin with the rhythm of speed, which was the rhythm that Wang Chuqin liked, and if Ma Long continued to play like this, it must be an impact on his physical strength, and Malone had to play the tactic of controlling the rhythm, limiting Wang Chuqin and slowing down the rhythm. On the serve, Malone is still not very strict, and there are several such serves that are unnecessarily wrong. Ma Long also heard a beautiful Chinese phrase spoken by Ma Long on the field.
Although Malone won this game, his mentality was still a little impatient, and he still wanted to rush to win the game, resulting in many balls not being counted very tightly, and for Malone, this kind of mistake should not be made.
In the decider, it can be said that Ma Long gradually woke up, Wang Chuqin's loose serve action, will be seen by Ma Long, and then it is a rush, Ma Long also shouted, Wang Chuqin entered the rhythm of Ma Long at this time, just like the hairy crab, Ma Long has tied Wang ChuQin, 6-2, Ma Long is also rapidly expanding the score.
Wang Chuqin's mentality in the last set was somewhat broken, and it can be seen from his serve and serve that the quality is much lower than that of the previous innings, and his psychological thoughts have increased. This is the key factor that Wang Chuqin needs to improve in the face of Ma Long. Losing to Ma Long is not shameful, but Wang Chuqin still can't avoid having too many thoughts. In the case of 3-10 behind, Wang Chuqin's mentality also gradually relaxed, but it was too late, and after two points, Malone decisively called a timeout, and finally won 11-6.