At the end of the men's singles final of WTT Singapore Grand Slam, Fan Zhendong of national table tennis teamed up with Ma Long to stage a wonderful match, and finally Fan Zhendong won the championship after seven sets of hard fighting, defeating Ma Long 4-3. At this point, the competition is all over, the national table tennis has won all five championships, and Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin have become the double champions.
In the previous men's singles semifinals, the top seed Fan Zhendong defeated Japan's Yukiya Umada 4-2, and the second seed Ma Long defeated teammate Liang Jingkun 4-0, and the two will meet in the final. In today's final, in the first set, Fan Zhendong made a 6-2 start and won the first set 11-6. In the second set, the two sides began to draw 3, and then Fan Zhendong scored 5 consecutive points to open the score 8-3 and win another set 11-6, leading 2-0. In the third set, Malone started with a 4-2 lead and held the lead until the end, pulling back the set 11-6. In the fourth set, Malone made a 4-1 start, Fan Zhendong chased the score to 7 draws when he was 4-7 behind, and Malone still won another set at 11-9 to make the big score 2-2.
In the crucial fifth set, the two sides began to compete fiercely, Fan Zhendong led 6-4 in the middle of the game, and then Malone scored 4 consecutive points to win the score 8-4, and won the set 11-8, with a big score of 3-2. In the sixth set, Malone scored three consecutive points in the opening to lead 3-0, at which point Fan Zhendong called a timeout for himself. After the timeout, Malone scored another point to take a 4-0 lead, and after Fan Zhendong scored a point, Malone continued to score points to extend the lead 6-1. Letting go, Fan Zhendong chased the score to 6 draws, and after 8 draws, he scored three consecutive points to win the sixth set 11-8, pulling the big score into a 3-3 draw, and the game entered the decider. In the decider, Fan Zhendong started 4-1, continued to lead 8-4 in the middle, and finally defeated Ma Long 11-7 to win the men's singles championship and also win the men's singles qualification for the Hangzhou Asian Games.
With Fan Zhendong winning the men's singles championship, the national table tennis won five championships in the first WTT Grand Slam tournament, defending the dominant position of the national table tennis. Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha won the mixed doubles championship, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu won the women's doubles championship, Wang Chuqin/Fan Zhendong won the men's doubles championship, and Chen Meng won the women's singles championship. After the end of this tournament, the main players of the national table tennis team will move to Doha, Qatar, to participate in the Doha leg of the WTT Star Challenge, which starts on March 25.