On March 20, Beijing time, the WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament entered the final match day, the men's singles final was staged, the national table tennis civil war, Fan Zhendong played against Ma Long. The two sides have won and lost many battles in the past, and Fan Zhendong won the men's team championship by defeating Ma Long at the National Games, and played in the domestic training competition before the World Table Tennis Championships, and Fan Zhendong also defeated Ma Long.
In the first set of the game, Fan Zhendong made a mistake to start, but Xiao Fat did not panic, many backhand positions occupied the advantage of scoring, soon surpassed the score to 5-2, and then Fan Zhendong directly returned the ball to score, the ball speed was extremely fast, Xiao Fat continued to score, and finally the first set scored 11-6, Fan Zhendong won the first set, the big score was 1-0.
Entering the second set, there was a magical scene on the field, Ma Long suddenly collapsed after playing a 4-1 start, many serves were directly scored by Fan Zhendong, Ma Long appeared to react very slowly, Xiao Fat directly scored 9 points in one breath, to achieve a 10-4 lead, to win the set point, in the end, Fan Zhendong easily won the second set 11-6, the big score 2-0 lead.
Coming to the third set, Malone came up to pick the ball to score, Fan Zhendong quickly responded, high-quality forehand return ball score, the next round, Malone multi-shot stalemate in the case of a strong burst score, Fan Zhendong returned the ball error, Malone led 4-2. Then Fan Zhendong despite many high-quality attacks, but were all defended by Ma Long one by one, Ma Long scored consecutive points again, after playing 10-6, Ma Long scored a flying bat, played a very wonderful round, and finally won this round 11-6, Ma Long pulled back a city, and the big score came to 2-1!
In the fourth round of the tournament, Fan Zhendong came up to two consecutive return balls but the net, Malone led 2-0, the third round Malone returned the ball out of bounds, Fan Zhendong regained the advantage, fell into a glue, once played 8-8 draw, the next leg, the two sides backhand attack, Malone occupied the advantage to force Fan Zhendong to make a mistake, 9-8, and then Fan Zhendong immediately made Malone return ball mistake, 9-9, but at the critical moment Malone resisted the pressure, won the fourth set at 11-9, and the big score hit 2-2 draw!
In the fifth inning of the white-hot game, Ma Long came up to take a 2-0 lead, but the advantage did not last long, Fan Zhendong quickly counterattacked, the two sides were deadlocked to 6-6, Ma Long then exerted force at this time, two forehands returned the ball to score, Fan Zhendong immediately hit back, the score came to 8-7, into the timeout. The adjusted Malone did not keep his hand, 11-8, the big score came to 3-2, Malone led.
The sixth inning of the game was Malone's match point innings, Fan Zhendong came up for three consecutive returns but the net, Malone led 3-0, Fan Zhendong was forced to call a timeout to adjust, but Xiao Fat still failed to get back to his form, and it was a continuous return ball out of bounds mistake, Ma Long took the opportunity to beat the score to a 6-1 lead.
At this time, Fan Zhendong finally found his feelings, every time the return ball was very decisive, Ma Long was instantly overwhelmed, Xiao Fat scored 5 points in a row, the score came to 6-6, and fell into the glue again, Fan Zhendong hit back with a sharp angle of the forehand, directly scored, the score came to 8-8, Ma Long returned the ball error, 9-8, Fan Zhendong led. Fan Zhendong grabbed Ma Long's forehand position and scored directly, 10-8, Fan Zhendong won the set point, and finally, 11-8, Fan Zhendong won the set, and the big score came to 3-3.
Grab the seven battles, the two sides are multiple rounds of multi-shot stalemate, Fan Zhendong is better, the front and backhands are constantly switching, and Xiao Fat leads the start 4-1. The next round Fan Zhendong returned the ball out of bounds, and then the two sides sent each other a mistake because of the physical strength close to the bottom, the score came to 8-6, Fan Zhendong led, the next leg, Ma Long returned the ball but the net, 9-6, the second round, Ma Long returned the ball out of bounds, 11-6, Fan Zhendong match point, the final 11-7, Fan Zhendong won the last set, the big score 4-3 beat Ma Long to win the championship!
For Fan Zhendong, every defeat of Ma Long believes that it will bring confidence to Xiao Fat, and winning Ma Long is Fan Zhendong's long-term goal in national table tennis. Today, Fan Zhendong has done it again, and unlike the past few times, Fan Zhendong beat Ma Long in the men's singles final of the international competition this time, and the gold content of the victory is completely different. And Fan Zhendong's defeat of Ma Long is also equivalent to announcing the inheritance of national table tennis, the torch in the hands of the dragon team will be taken over by Fan Zhendong, and the future belongs to the era of xiao fat!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)