Fan Zhendong lost a game! South Korea's three main forces made a surprising move, and the national table tennis won eight consecutive victories of nine consecutive victories
On December 10, the table tennis mixed team World Cup started the last day of competition, the previously undefeated national table tennis and South Korean teams directly faced each other in the final round, and finally the national table tennis team defeated the South Korean team with a score of 8-1 and won the first mixed team World Cup championship with a complete victory.
In this competition, the national table tennis team is the No. 1 seed, and the South Korean team is the No. 4 seed. In the group stage, the national table tennis team won all three games, the South Korean team won all four games, and both teams advanced to the second stage of the quarterfinals with the first place in the group. In the second stage of the competition, the national table tennis team defeated the Slovak team 8-1, the Chinese Taipei team 8-1, the French team 8-1, the German team 8-1, and the Japanese team 8-5, and the South Korean team defeated the French team 8-0, the Slovak team 8-0, the Chinese Taipei team 8-2, the Japanese team 8-4, and the German team 8-6. The first three sets of national table tennis continued the lineup of the previous game, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha played in mixed doubles, Wang Manyu and Fan Zhendong played in singles. The South Korean team changed the lineup again, Ahn Jae-hyun partnered Shin Yubin in the mixed doubles, Kim Na-young continued to play in the women's singles, Lee Sang-so played in the men's singles, and Shin Yubin, Jang Yuzhen, and Lim Jong-hoon, who performed well in the previous games, were all rested in this match.
In the last match against Japan, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha lost 1-2 to Hayasuke Togami/Miwa Zhangmoto, and they played again in this game, facing the new Korean pair, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha won three games in a row 11-8, 11-8, 11-5, 3-0 over Ahn Jae-hyun/Shin Yubin, and the national table tennis team led the South Korean team 3-0.
Wang Manyu played in the women's singles competition continuously, and when facing Jin Naying, Wang Manyu lost three straight games 11-2, 11-5, 11-7, scoring three more points for the national table tennis and helping the national table tennis take a 6-0 lead.
In the third set, Men's Singles Fan Zhendong faced Lee Sang-so. In the last game against Japan, Fan Zhendong lost 1-2 to Tomokazu Zhangmoto, and in the last round, the coaching staff continued to send Fan Zhendong to play, not long ago WTT Frankfurt Championship Men's Singles 1/8 finals, Fan Zhendong lost 1-3 to Lee Sang-so. This time they met again, Fan Zhendong defeated Lee Sang-so 11-7, 10-12, 11-4, 2-1, and the national table tennis team defeated the South Korean team 8-1, winning nine consecutive victories from the group stage and winning the championship.
In other matches, France beat Slovakia 8-4, Japan beat Germany 8-4, Hayasuke Togami/Miwa Haramoto lost 1-2 to Meissner/Manen, Miu Hirano beat Winter 3-0, Tomokazu Haramoto beat Walser 2-1, Miyu Kihara/Miwa Haramoto beat Winter/Manwon 2-1, and Japan finished third in the second stage with a record of 5 wins and 2 losses.