With Fan Zhendong defeating Wang Chuqin in the men's singles final to win the championship, the 2023 Durban World Table Tennis Championships officially came to an end. In the end, the Chinese team successfully won the gold medals in 5 events of men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles, which also surpassed the Houston World Table Tennis Championships 2 years ago! Among them, Fan Zhendong won the men's singles championship, Wang Chuqin won the runner-up, and the two also teamed up to win the men's doubles championship. The women's singles championship and runner-up went to Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng, Chen Meng and Wang Yidi won the women's doubles gold medal, and Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha defended their titles in the mixed doubles event.
12 players played Only 1 person did not qualify for the medal
From the results point of view, Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin all won 2 golds, Chen Meng and Wang Yidi won 1 gold, Ma Long, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, Lin Shidong, etc. also had medals, but only Lin Gaoyuan failed to win medals. In this competition, the Chinese team sent 6 men and 6 women to play. Head coach Li Falcon made it clear in an interview before the game that the goal of the Chinese team is to win all the gold medals. From the list, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan participated in the men's singles competition, while the women's singles were jointly played by Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong. The men's doubles pair is Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan and Lin Shidong. The women's doubles are Chen Meng and Wang Yidi, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, and the mixed doubles event is played by Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, Lin Shidong and Qu Man.
Winning all three doubles titles Women's doubles was the most surprising
Mixed doubles is the first gold medal of this World Championships. Defending champions Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha defeated the Japanese pair Tomokazu Chang and Hina Hayata in the final to win two consecutive World Championships, and the two also established their world number one dominance. Another pair, Lin Shidong and Qu Man, won a bronze medal. In the men's doubles match, Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan and Lin Shidong met early in the quarterfinals, and in the end, Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin won.
In the men's doubles championship and runner-up match, Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin defeated South Korea's Zhang Yuzhen and Lim Jong-hoon 3-0 to win the men's doubles championship for the first time.
In the women's doubles event, world No. 1 Manyu and Sun Yingsha did not play well in the semifinals and were eliminated by the South Korean pair Tian Zhixi and Shin Yubin, and they stopped in the semifinals. In the final, another pair of national table tennis women's doubles Chen Meng and Wang Yidi withstood the pressure and defeated Tian Zhixi and Shen Yubin in straight sets, winning the women's doubles championship for the first time.
Two world firsts won the championship together
On the last matchday, the men's and women's singles finals began. In the first women's singles final, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng fought for 6 games, and in the end, Sun Yingsha won 4-2, winning the World Championship women's singles championship for the first time in her career, and Chen Meng regretted to win silver. The men's singles gold medal match was staged against world No. 1 Fan Zhendong and world No. 2 King Chuqin. Fan Zhendong is the defending champion and Wang Chuqin has reached the men's singles final of the World Championships for the first time, and the match between the two has attracted much attention. After the battle, Fan Zhendong defeated Wang Chuqin 4-2 and successfully won the men's singles championship of the World Championships!
(Luo Treasurer)