On March 15, 2022, the table tennis Grand Slam tournament continued, with six national table tennis singles players advancing, namely Fan Zhendong, the top seed of the men's singles, Ma Long, the no. 2 seed, Liang Jingkun, the no. 5 seed, Chen Meng, the no. 2 seed of the women's singles, Wang Manyu, the no. 4 seed, and Wang Yidi, the no. 5 seed.
Finally, Fan Zhendong's competition, he has outstanding results in this year, successively won the World Table Tennis Championships men's singles championship, olympic team gold medals, are new career highs, to the new season Fan Zhendong continued the good state before, both men's singles, men's doubles two events, the world ranking ranks at the top of the list, everyone is looking forward to it, Fan Zhendong and Ma Long will be in the final, to compete for the championship.
Focus on the South Korean young player Ahn Jae-hyun, 22-year-old ranked 45th in the world, the highlight of his career was the World Table Tennis Championships three years ago, defeated Jang Ben-ji and lost to Fark, and finally won the men's singles bronze medal, in recent years the results are relatively mediocre, in the eyes of many people he has limited potential, it is difficult to achieve better results, but this Grand Slam Ahn Jae-hyun's performance is very good, at least insist on the round of 16.
The characteristics of Korean players are to fight hard, the more critical moments, often can play beyond the normal, but the stability is too poor, for Ahn Jae-hyun, his veneer quality is not good, and Fan Zhendong hard fight is definitely swept, can only be through the serve and change the line to limit the opponent.
In the first set, An Zaixian tried to create some trouble for Fan Zhendong through the change of serve, but the effect was very unsatisfactory, because Fan Zhendong's experience in the competition was very rich, and he had coping strategies for different techniques and tactics, Fan Zhendong took a 4-1 lead, and then Fan Zhendong took the lead in an all-round way, continued to open up the point difference, and soon burst out 11-4 to take the lead, and qin Zhijian, the head coach of the national table tennis men's team, served as an off-field coach.
In the second set Fan Zhendong had a senseless mistake, An Jae Hyun also had a lucky ball, took the initiative to wave his hand, to take a 6-1 lead, both sides scored 4 points each, An Jae Hyun 10-5 set points, then equalized 11-6, in the third set An Jae Hyun fell behind 0-4 to 6 draws, Fan Zhendong suddenly dropped the line, Ahn Jae Hyun got the set point 10-7, Fan Zhendong chased back 2 points, Ahn Jae Hyun suspended, Fan Zhendong ate the serve, and Ahn Jae Hyun won 13-11.
Next, Fan Zhendong adjusted his personal rhythm, strengthened his offensive attack to avoid entanglement with his opponent, played 11-5 and returned to color, and fan Zhendong in the decider ended the game 11-7, and finally won 3-2 against An Zaixian, fighting hard for five sets to advance to the men's singles quarterfinals, waiting for Xu Xin.
The men's singles field produced two quarter-finals, the German straight player Qiu Dang eliminated Sweden's Carlberg 3-1, Japan's Yukiya Utada defeated South Korea's Lin Jong-hoon 3-1, and the men's doubles Chinese Taipei duo Zhuang Zhiyuan / Chen Jian'an won three consecutive sets 11-7, 11-7, 11-3, 3-0 to the South Korean combination Zhang Yuzhen / Lin Zhongxun, so that the South Korean team was completely destroyed in this tournament.