WTT Singapore Grand Slam came to an end, in the highly anticipated finale, men's singles final, Malone regrettably lost 3-4 to Fan Zhendong, losing the championship. Malone had a chance to reverse this game, although he was already 0-2 behind from the top of the score, but he did not give up, winning 3 consecutive sets to achieve a 3-2 comeback. Unfortunately, in the crucial sixth set, Malone did not seize the opportunity and was dragged into the decider by Fan Zhendong. After that, Malone, whose physical strength declined, regrettably lost the game and did not have the opportunity to make a big comeback.
On March 21, After Ma Long rested on social media, he said: "It's another wonderful game, congratulations to Xiao Fat for winning the final championship, your performance is worthy of the championship, I am also satisfied with my performance this time, although some regrets, but also tried my best, this is also the biggest charm brought by competitive sports, not at the last moment is not sure who is the champion, the next field to see the Chinese team to cheer"
Ma Long praised Fan Zhendong, which is also the first time ma long has spoken after the end of the game, after all, after the end of the game, only the winner is eligible to speak, as the captain of the national table tennis team, Ma Long is sorry to lose the championship. It is worth mentioning that after the end of yesterday's game, Fan Zhendong's first sentence was to hope that everyone would give applause to two people, and Fan Zhendong also paid tribute to Ma Long, saying that indeed every time he played with Ma Long, it was like learning and paying tribute to his predecessors.
Ma Long and Fan Zhendong are indeed heroic sympathetic to each other, the two also represent the inheritance of national table tennis, they won the gold medal of the Olympic men's team together, and then Fan Zhendong was full of confidence and opened his own brilliant moment, whether it was the extremely difficult National Games or the World Table Tennis Championships, Fan Zhendong won the men's singles championship. This time coming to Singapore to participate in the first Grand Slam, Fan Zhendong once again won the men's singles championship, firmly ranking first in the world, and also opened his own era from the hands of Ma Long.
At the same time, Fan Zhendong also started his own men's doubles journey, after Fan Zhendong and Ku Man had cooperated in mixed doubles, and lost to the Xinwen simulcast combination and won the runner-up. This time with Wang Chuqin, in the first Grand Slam won the mixed doubles championship, and the outside world is recognized that the partner of Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong is very likely to replace Ma Long and Xu Xin, the two veterans, and become the strongest men's doubles combination in the next group of Chinese table tennis team.
Therefore, the next step is also looking forward to the performance of veteran Ma Long and new Wang Fan Zhendong, who are representatives of the Chinese table tennis team and strive to achieve better results.