On March 15, the first WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament has reached its fifth regular match day, and on the afternoon of March 15, a high-profile men's singles match was played, between 34-year-old veteran Ma Long and his fellow beijing team, wang Chuqin, who was born in 2000.
Malone is a veteran that everyone is very familiar with, in last year's Tokyo Olympic Games, Malone successfully defended the Olympic men's singles champion, becoming the first table tennis player in Olympic history to defend the men's singles champion.
Although Ma Long has since withdrawn from the men's singles competition of the National Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, Ma Long still maintains a very good competitive state, and Ma Long still maintains his love for table tennis, saying that as long as he has love, it will always be the year of playing!
Wang Chuqin, an outstanding young athlete who has emerged in the past two years of Chinese men's table tennis, won the men's doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships with Ma Long three years ago, and also won the mixed doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships with Sun Yingsha last year, and is also regarded as a popular candidate for the Paris Olympic Games two years later.
Ma Long and Wang Chuqin are also from the Beijing team, and the two know each other's roots. And this game is also regarded as a showdown between the new and old kings.
In the first set, Malone started very aggressively and quickly entered the game, taking a 5-1 lead at the start.
Wang Chuqin played more actively in the case of backwardness, chasing points continuously in the case of 5-8 behind, once chasing the score to 10 draws, at the critical moment, Ma Long was more decisive in the first hand, scoring two points in a row, and took the lead in winning the first set with a score of 12-10!
In the second set, Wang Chuqin was not affected by the loss of the first set, and he fought more actively, and Ma Long was not willing to show weakness, and the two scored many draws.
After 5 draws, Wang Chuqin launched a fierce attack, and Ma Long made too many mistakes, Wang Chuqin became more and more courageous, scoring 5 points in a row, winning the set point 10-5 and pulling back a set with an 11-6 score!
In the third set of the game, Wang Chuqin still firmly controlled the situation on the field, and did not fall behind in the confrontation with Ma Long, and soon the score came to 7-3, and Wang Chuqin led.
Ma Long did not give up and tenaciously chased points continuously, but the mistake at the key moment still made Wang Chuqin win another round with a score of 11-8, and the big score was 2-1, and Wang Chuqin achieved a counterattack!
In the fourth set of the game, Malone has no way back, in this inning, Malone took the initiative to attack at the beginning of the game, and achieved a 4-1 lead, Wang Chuqin was a little anxious at this time, and there was also a mistake in the attack, 11-5, Malone dragged the game into the decider!
In the decider, Malone's physical strength was not affected at all, Wang Chuqin's mentality seemed to have a little problem, continuous mistakes, Malone quickly seized the opportunity, 9-3, Malone led.
At this time, Wang Chuqin was also helpless, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, it seemed that in front of the big brother, he was still a little immature.
10-3, Malone gets the match point!
Wang Chuqin did not give up, began to give up, saved three match points in a row, but there was too much behind in front, in the end, Ma Long still ended the battle with a score of 11-6, thus reversing with a large score of 3-2 and defeating his disciple Wang Chuqin!
In this game, Wang Chuqin played very well in the first three sets of matches, and dared to take the initiative in the confrontation with Ma Long.
However, after being pulled back by Ma Long, Wang Chuqin appeared conservative thinking, which also led to Wang Chuqin's no longer decisive shots, and there were many mistakes! In the end, it was reversed by Malone.
And veteran Malone also proved his strength with this victory. Whether Ma Long is leading or lagging behind in the game, he still adheres to his own skills and tactics, so the spirit of never giving up is indeed worth learning from young athletes!