Since the top eight in the team competition can go straight to the Paris Olympics, this World Table Tennis Championships is full of highlights, and all countries have sent the strongest players to compete. In the morning game, the Chinese women's team almost overturned, and finally relied on Wang Manyu's excellent performance to defeat the Indian team, which made the coaching staff break out in a cold sweat, which also reminded the Chinese delegation. In the first round of the men's team that started tonight, in the face of the weak Belgian team, the Chinese team still sent all the main forces, and the top three players in the world played one after another, but the Chinese team did not give the opponent a chance and won the opponent 3:0 cleanly. Let's take a look at the game.
Fan Zhendong 3-0 Cedric (11-5, 11-6, 11-6)
In the first game, the world's No. 1 Fan Zhendong tried to stabilize the word, and the continuous ball basically settled the battle in the first three boards, and soon led the opponent 6-1, and won the game 11-5 in less than 10 minutes. In the second game, although Cedric's luck was relatively good, and he was lucky to score consecutive wiping the net, Fan Zhendong relied on his strength to win the second game 11-6. In the third game, Fan Zhendong still started 2-0, starting from the third ball, Cedric was mainly defensive in the first three boards, and only after entering the tug-of-war did he slowly turn from defense to offense, this obvious change made Fan Zhendong a little uncomfortable, and the scores of the two sides also rose alternately. From 4-4, Fan Zhendong began to exert his strength, scoring consecutive points to easily defeat the opponent 11-6, and the Chinese team temporarily led 1-0.
Wang Chuqin 3-0 Adrick (11-8, 13-11, 11-4)
As Belgium's most potential hopeful, Adric's performance in this game was quite good, and the confrontation with Wang Chuqin was also quite exciting. After the start of the first game, the two sides played from 2-2 to 7-7, and after adapting to the opponent, Wang Chuqin got a key point to get the game point. With Adric's last ball long out of bounds, Wang Chuqin struggled to win the first game.
As soon as the second game came up, Adrick ate 2 serves in a row, which also made Wang Chuqin play more and more confidently. After 8-2, due to problems with the electronic scorer, the game was interrupted for nearly 5 minutes, which also made Wang Chuqin relax a little and lose 4 points in a row. Seeing this situation, Director Wang Hao also urgently called a timeout and asked Wang Chuqin to adjust his state. After the pause, Wang Chuqin's performance was still unstable, and he was chased by the opponent to 9 draws, and the two sides also showed their skills when it came to the key points. In the end, Lady Luck still stood on Wang Chuqin's side, one wiped the net, and the other received the ball out of bounds, and defeated the opponent 13-11 with difficulty, leading the opponent with a score of 2-0.
After Wang Chuqin started the game 3-0 in the third game, the Belgian team immediately called a timeout, and Adric was ready to make a last fight. This time Wang Chuqin did not give the opponent a chance, in the face of the opponent's tennis, Wang Chuqin continued to receive the opponent's pull ball, and a reverse pull score on the far platform won a long applause from the audience. After the game was 9-3, the electronic scorer actually failed habitually, but fortunately, Wang Chuqin had already learned from the past, and this time it did not affect his state, winning 11-4 against the opponent and helping the Chinese team lead the opponent 2-0.
Malone 3-Allegro (11-4, 11-7, 10-12
As Belgium's highest-ranked player, Allegro finished third in the singles and it seems that they have a clear purpose and do not want to spend too much time and energy with a strong Chinese team. In the first game, Ma Long played very relaxed, starting with 8-4, and then scored 3 points in a row to win the first game 11-4. Winning the first game easily also proved his role as a veteran.
In terms of small details, Allegro is indeed much stronger than his first two teammates. In the second game, Allegro used his backhand advantage to give Malone a dismount and temporarily lead Malone 5-3. But after all, Malone has rich experience in the World Series, and used continuous grabbing to deal with the opponent's backhand attack, and Malone scored 6 points in a row to overtake the opponent 9-5. In the subsequent game, Malone did not give the opponent a chance and won 11-7. Big score: Malone leads Allegro 2-0.
This was followed by the third game, which was also a crucial game for Belgium, and if Allegro lost, Belgium would also lose the game. As everyone expected, Allegro played very aggressively and took the initiative to attack. Allegro had the upper hand in several mid-to-far platform matches, and soon Allegro led 7-3. Then Malone slowly chased back the score, and chased 3 points in a row to equalize the score when he was 7-10 behind. But in the last ball, Allegro relied on a lucky net to get 1 point and make the score 1-2.
Although he unfortunately lost a game, Ma Long's strength is higher than that of his opponent after all. At the beginning of the fourth game, Malone obviously suppressed the opponent in momentum, Allegro dropped points in a row, and even after only falling behind 2-4, the Belgian team still called a timeout. The effect of the pause was still obvious, and Ma Long did not open the score until after 7-5, Ma Long scored consecutive points and won 11-7 in one go, scoring the third point for the Chinese team.