On the evening of November 5th, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Frankfurt Championship came to an end, and in the last battle of the much-anticipated men's singles final, the national table tennis Grand Slam veteran Ma Long appeared on the stage and faced off against the Chinese Taipei player Lin Yunru, who won Zhang Benzhihe and Wang Chuqin in a row.
Less than a day before the start of this final, the eight non-main players of national table tennis were all wiped out in the WTT Slovenia feeder tournament, and seven of them lost the foreign war; Now that the four main forces of national table tennis have been wiped out at the higher-level WTT German Championships, and all of them have lost to athletes from foreign associations, the situation is really not good, come on! See below for a detailed breakdown of the battle.
The performance of the national table tennis men's team in this championship was very unsatisfactory, Liang Jingkun and Fan Zhendong only stopped in the top 16, losing two 1-3 in a row to South Korean players Lin Zhongxun and Lee Sang-su, and Wang Chuqin also lost to Lin Yunru 2-4 in the semifinals, and even only scored 2 points in the last game, which was very miserable, and it can be said that there is no momentum at all.
In this way, the responsibility of winning the national table tennis men's singles championship finally fell to the 35-year-old Ma Long, but his pressure is actually not small, because he has lost to Lin Yunru many times in the past, even this year, the two are also tied with one win and one loss, so no one has the certainty of winning the final, so they can only do their best to fight each other.
After the start of the first game, two tacticians who are rare in today's table tennis world began to very subtle near-stage control and attack, Lin Yunru took the lead at the beginning but was then reversed, Ma Long gradually grasped the initiative on the court, scored consecutive points and got multiple game points, and finally won the first place with an 11-7 reversal, showing the strength of the Grand Slam.
In the second game, Lin Yunru took the lead, but was soon chased to only 1 point, and his off-court coach Wei Guan Qingguang hurriedly called a timeout to adjust - the coaches of the athletes on both sides in this competition are former national table tennis Olympic champions, so this ball is not only a game between Ma Long and Lin Yunru, but also a confrontation between Wang Hao, the coach of the national table tennis men's team, and the old-timers.
After returning to the game, Lin Yunru continued to maintain the advantage, and returned Ma Long with an 11-7 score, and the two sides returned to the same running line, but the further the game was pushed, the more unfavorable it must be for the veteran Ma Long, so he still had to find a way to make a quick decision, so he strengthened the quality of the attack in the third game, but it was reversed 11-13 in the case of continuous lead, and the big score was reversed 1-2, and the situation was not good.
In the fourth game, Lin Yunru's state was still very good, and many of the returns were beyond Ma Long's prediction, but the veteran still stubbornly bit the score, and then the two kept chasing me, and the result was that the young man took the lead in getting the game point, and Ma Long still lost 10-12 after a hard fight, and was forced into a desperate situation by the other party, and the battle would be ended if he lost another game.
In the fifth game, Ma Long fought with his back to the water, but the result was still relatively passive, and Coach Wang Hao hurriedly called a timeout to adjust, but it was already a little late at this time. After returning to the court, Lin Yunru became more and more courageous, and he could pull back strongly in COSCO, this ball was difficult to play, and in the end, Ma Long lost by 2 points, 10-12, lost 4 games in a row and was reversed, and missed the men's singles championship, but it was a pity!
As mentioned earlier, the national table tennis men's singles recently suffered a total annihilation in two consecutive competitions, only one of the twelve athletes was saved from losing the foreign war because of the defeat to his teammates, and the four main players in the team, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, and Liang Jingkun, all collapsed, and it is really necessary to reflect on and summarize: I look forward to everyone's performance in the next game to be more brilliant, come on!