The Singapore WTT Grand Slam field ushered in the final match day and the final match of the competition. The two sides of the clash are double-lap Grand Slam winner and current world number two veteran Ma Long, and Fan Zhendong, who is currently the world number one and the winner of the men's singles championship of the Xinke World Table Tennis Championships. In a competition that just ended before this, Chen Meng, the two main players of the national table tennis Olympic Games women's singles champion, defeated the women's singles champion of the Xinke World Table Tennis Championships by a score of 4-3, and teammate Wang Manyu lifted the first women's singles championship trophy in the Grand Slam Finals. At the same time as getting 2,000 points, there are also $100,000 in the account. Wang Manyu, on the other hand, received 1,400 ranking points and $60,000 in prize money.
The pinnacle duel between Ma Long and Fan Zhendong began to enter the official competition state at a little more than nine o'clock in the evening. In the first set of the two sides, the two men fought a 2-2 draw at the beginning, but then Malone made two offensive mistakes and direct mistakes in receiving the ball, and Fan Zhendong directly pulled the straight line after serving, and when forming a stalemate, he also took the lead in changing the line, pulling the score to 6-2. His backhand twisted straight, and the difference between the two sides was stretched to 8-3. Fan Zhendong in the resoluteness of the shot and the choice of landing point, obviously more accurate than Malone's handling, his backhand holding ability is also vividly reflected, and Malone is using his forehand attack to seek a breakthrough, with Malone's swing short return ball out of bounds, 11-6, Fan Zhendong easily won the first set. The big score between the two sides came to 1-0. In the first set of the two sides, Fan Zhendong obviously used the first way to enter the state and achieved a preemptive strike.
In the second set of the match, Malone took a 3-1 lead by playing the chase ball after the opening game was tied 1-1. But then his successive offensive mistakes, as well as Fan Zhendong's active attack success, Fan Zhendong not only caught up with the score but also achieved a 9-4 score reversal. At the end of the inning, Malone once again had a direct error in the attack to send points, and like the first set, the score of the two sides in this set was 11-6, and Malone lost another set. The score came to 2-0. We can clearly feel that Fan Zhendong is quite focused on the game, every time he starts, he seems to be fully prepared, and to some extent, the last round of Yukiya Utada and his score were very glued, which also allowed him to directly find the best state in this game.
In the third set of the match, the two sides began a 1-1 and 2-2 draw, and Malone tried another change in the serve end in the ensuing match, and his signature side cut score gave him a 5-3 lead. The two sides then formed a continuous standoff, each with consecutive scoring opportunities, but because Malone had a three-point lead in front, he also maintained this advantage to the end, and in the final attack of this set, he almost ran to Fan Zhendong's side of the table to score a forehand, thus pulling back a city with an 11-6 score, and the two sides scored 2-1.
In the fourth set of the game, Malone further accelerated at the end of the serve, and the serve was also the courage to take the lead, Fan Zhendong in the face of this change of Malone, a little error rate increased, Malone to take the opening 2-0 and 4-2 lead. However, the quality of Fan Zhendong's attack in the middle of the game was very high, and he continued to hold the line change, so that he not only caught up with the score but also surpassed to 8-7, Malone continuously resisted the attack in the middle of the road, and the forehand shot also allowed him to catch up with the score again, and the two sides fought to a 9-9 draw. At the end of the innings, although Fan Zhendong has the right to serve, his serve is introduced, Ma Long directly grabs another point on the side, and Fan Zhendong's second serve is also won by Ma Long to receive the opportunity to grab the straight line directly with the serve, and Ma Long also went to the next city at 11-9, and the big score between the two sides came to a 2-2 draw.
In the fifth set of the game, Fan Zhendong took advantage of the change in the serve to take a 2-0 lead, but then Malone also sought to take the initiative on the serve end, and the two sides quickly drew 3-3. Fan Zhendong took a 5-3 lead by consecutively grabbing Malone's backhand loopholes, and Malone also used the changes in the serve to create opportunities for himself to get started, and his offensive determination gave him an 8-6 lead. But then Fan Zhendong boldly changed the line, and the score between the two sides came to 7-8. Malone hurried to call a pause for himself. His chase ball left Fan Zhendong unable to find a suitable return line, and Malone took a 10-8 lead. A lucky side-edged goal scored another 11-8 for Malone to score another 11-8, and the two sides scored 3-2, and Malone instead came behind with a 0-2 deficit.
In the sixth set of the game, Ma Long, who won three cities in a row, became more and more courageous, his hooker serve let Xiao Fat lose 2 points in a row, Fan Zhendong's serve also let Ma Long directly serve to score, the two sides fought 3-0 at the beginning of the game, Ma Long took an absolute lead, Fan Zhendong quickly called a timeout for himself. Back from the timeout, Fan Zhendong's forehand straight-line attack scored, allowing him to get the first point of the game, but Fan Zhendong's consecutive mistakes in the backhand attack allowed Malone to further widen the point difference to 6-1. Fan Zhendong's firm forehand consecutive shots, as well as straight-line scores and slash hits in the middle of the match, let Xiao Fat chase the score back to 6-6. The two sides then drew 7 and 8 draws, Fan Zhendong played a high-quality single board from defense to attack, 11-8, Fan Zhendong won the sixth game. The two sides scored 3-3, another seven-set win.
The seventh inning began. Still Fan Zhendong was more determined and proactive, and the quality of the veneers given was also higher, and he quickly took a 4-1 lead and exchanged venues with a 5-3 lead. Malone's backhand defense made a series of senseless mistakes in the innings, and Fan Zhendong also took the opportunity to further widen the point difference to 7-3. Malone in the case of falling behind, want to take the initiative to side, but the effect is not ideal, the two sides also played from 8-4 to 9-6, Fan Zhendong's line change allowed him to get a 10-6 score lead, but also held the championship point, as Ma Long's pick played out of bounds, Fan Zhendong won the seventh set 11-7, thus winning the first Grand Slam men's singles championship with a score of 4-3, congratulating Fan Zhendong (seven innings: 11-6, 11-6, 6-11, 9-11, 8-11, 11-8 and 11-7). At the same time, let's say that Malone is good, you are still our favorite dragon team.