If the humor of the national team members is ranked, Fan Zhendong will definitely be among the top few. Before the start of the team competition of the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, South Korea, a CCTV reporter asked Fan Zhendong in an interview how you evaluate Ma Long now, Fan Zhendong smiled slightly, "I now doubt that Ma Long will retire with me, he is indeed a bit limitless, but the energy bar is too full." ”
It is indeed the case, Ma Long alone took away a Grand Slam from Fan Zhendong, and it can be said that Fan Zhendong became the strongest Grand Slam runner-up in history because of Ma Long.
The following is a ranking of the winning rate of the top domestic players against Ma Long, and Fan Zhendong is actually ranked fourth:
1. Wang Chuqin 5-4, the only athlete with a win rate of more than 50%.
2, Wang Hao 26-28, winning rate 48.3%
3. Available for 10 wins and 21 losses, with a win rate of 32%
No. 4 is Fan Zhendong, who has played against Ma Long a total of 20 times in the tournament, Fan Zhendong has won only 6 times and lost 14 times. And these 14 times there are all the large, medium and small competitions such as the National Games, the Asian Cup, the Olympic Games, the World Table Tennis Championships, the World Cup, etc., and they are all in the finals, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the legend of Ma Long's double circle Grand Slam has half of Fan Zhendong's credit.
But it is also strange to say, Wang Hao is known as a master of dragon training, although Ma Long is very strong, the winning rate is higher than Wang Hao, but Ma Long has never been able to beat Wang Hao in the competition, and even several times in the World Table Tennis Championships semi-finals by Wang Hao blocked, when Ma Long was beaten by Wang Hao and even decided to retire if the 2015 Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships did not win the championship. But Fan Zhendong, as Wang Hao's personal disciple, has a very similar style of play, and his actions are even more similar, but he can't beat Ma Long all the time, which is really fateful.
Fortunately, many of Fan Zhendong's wins were after the Tokyo Olympics, and Fan Zhendong is already the absolute leader of national table tennis.
Looking forward to the team competition of the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, South Korea, he also feels that this time is very different, he originally decided to start the World Table Tennis Championships in 2020, but later postponed it from the Tokyo Olympics cycle to the Paris cycle due to the epidemic, which is very important, both for the team and for him.
In the end, he expressed his expectations, because he unexpectedly lost to Japan's Tomokazu Zhang at the last Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships, which is the third time he has led the team to the World Table Tennis Championships team competition as the absolute main force of national table tennis since 2018. He's going to be ready to win the crucial games for the team.
This also indicates that Fan Zhendong may still be a single member of the team competition of this World Table Tennis Championships.