At the age of 35, "old age" can still beat Fan Zhendong, where does Ma Long win? The ability to control the game is still the number one in the active service
The men's singles competition of the 2023 Table Tennis Asian Championships came to an end, and 35-year-old Ma Long defeated Fan Zhendong 3:2 to win the Asian Championship men's singles championship. At such an "advanced age", to be able to win the strongest confrontation on the surface again, the Dragons performance is simply incredible. After winning the men's singles championship at the Asian Championships, Ma Long also had 500+2000 points in the account, maintaining this state, Ma Long on the Paris singles may not be a luxury.
Often playing new and changing, Malone is a super combat weapon, controlling the game, and is still the first active player.
If you compete in hard strength, then Fan Zhendong is undoubtedly the first in the world, but in terms of game control, adaptability, and tactical execution ability, no real person among the active players can stand out. The age of 35 is no longer at his peak, so how did Ma Long defeat the world's number one Fan Zhendong? From the technical side, there are mainly three aspects: first, crazy sideways and release forehand fire! If you play against the left half and fight against the backhand, Ma Long is undoubtedly in the downside. It is precisely to understand this truth, Ma Long has been crazy to use the forehand sideways from the beginning of the game, and the lethality of the forehand comes out, and Ma Long is likely to hand over the game 0:3 in front of Fan Zhendong.
Ma Long's sideways backhand with one or two boards, he took the initiative to actively turn sideways, and after serving, he directly snatched the sideways forehand, so many sideways forehand attacks, so that Fan Zhendong has been under the wild light bombardment, and the dragons have played their most powerful weapons to the fullest. Second, we must be tough and never soft. Not every ball has the opportunity to use the forehand sideways, the backhand is inevitable, this strongest duel Ma Long's bravest place is that he dares to fight with Fan Zhendong backhand, I am not as strong as you, but I work speed and landing points. Use speed pressure and landing point suppression to prevent you from playing the highest quality backhand. Third, the first three boards are too fine.
Deng Yaping said that table tennis is not stronger than anyone, every time I launch an attack, where my ball goes, where the next board attacks, it is to be calculated. For top players, this calculation is not counting one board, two boards, not three boards, five boards, but there are more than a dozen sets of serve and attack routines. At that time, Deng Yaping lost to Zhili Xiaoshan, and Deng Yaping herself said that my more than 20 sets of serve and attack routines were exhausted, and I still couldn't kill her. In terms of ball counting, the very experienced Ma Long defeated Fan Zhendong. Fortunately, all the competitions in all events of the Asian Championship are 5 sets and 3 wins, which is beneficial for the 35-year-old Malone. If it is said that in a 7-game 4-win system, Fan Zhendong plays the quality of the backhand veneer behind him, and the two sides fight fiercely for seven games, the Dragons do not have an advantage in physical fitness.
The Asian Championship men's singles won the championship, 2,500 points were credited, and Ma Long was competing for total points in Paris, not much behind Wang Chuqin
No one expected that in the end, it was the 35-year-old Malone who would eventually win the men's singles title at the Asian Championships. This victory also brought great benefits to the Dragons. At present, in Paris points, Fan Zhendong ranks first with 9630 points, Wang Chuqin ranks second with 5220 points, Ma Long ranks third with 4855 points, and Liang Jingkun ranks fourth with 3175 points. In this way, the gap between Ma Long and Wang Chuqin is only 365 points, which is easy to surpass.
The Asian Championship men's singles won the championship, and the Dragons also opened the points gap with Liang Jingkun. From the current main players in the team, except for Fan Zhendong, Ma Long is still the most stable. Wang Chuqin played a round of men's singles at the Championships, and if he played another round in the next year before the Paris Olympics, then Ma Long would be second in the team and play in Paris singles. There are two gains in singles at the Asian Championships: one is Wang Manyu, who returns from the king, and the other is Ma Long, who is not old.
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