He is the number one contributor to the 11th consecutive championship of the World Table Tennis Championships, and he also set another high, which is also 11, which belongs to him alone
When the Chinese men's table tennis team defeated the French team 3:0 and achieved the miracle of the 11th consecutive championship of the men's team at the World Table Tennis Championships, Xiaopang completed a personal miracle at the same time. Winning the men's team championship at the Busan World Table Tennis Championships is Fan Zhendong's 11th consecutive year on the top three world championships since his debut.
Like Ma Long, Fan Zhendong is also a table tennis prodigy who made his debut early, and the 2014 World Table Tennis Championships team event was his first world championship event, when he just celebrated his 17th birthday. Becoming a world champion at a young age is a height that many athletes can hope for, but Fan Zhendong's goal is not only that, and in the following 10 seasons, he has completed an incredible miracle in men's table tennis: world championships every year. It is worth mentioning that the team championship of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships is the 18th world championship won by Fan Zhendong in his sports career, and the number of gold medals won is second only to Ma Long among the active table tennis nationals.
It is necessary to remind that the world championship has been won every year in the sports career, and for more than 10 years, this is the height that Ma Long, Wang Nan, Ding Ning, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen and other table tennis kings must also look up to.
Ma Long, who has won the world championship 29 times, is very good, but he did not have a world championship in 2020 because the only men's table tennis championship produced that year fell to Fan Zhendong. Xu Xin has won the world championship for 11 consecutive years, but when he retired, he failed to win the championship every year, missing 2020 in the middle. In fact, Fan Zhendong is not the only one who won the world championship every year after his debut and before his retirement, but Wang Hao is also Wang Hao, but he has won the championship for 10 consecutive years, and he has not broken the 10-year mark.
In the past 11 years, Fan Zhendong has won all team, singles and men's doubles championships in all three major competitions except for the Olympic men's singles championship, and is only one step away from a Grand Slam or even a Grand Slam. At the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, Fan Zhendong showed his king's demeanor, winning all 8 sets of games before and after, especially in the semifinals of China and South Korea, under the unfavorable situation of Wang Chuqin and Ma Long's successive defeats, Xiaopang turned the tide, and cleared the biggest obstacle on the road to 11 consecutive championships for the national table tennis, and deserved to be the top seed in the men's singles world.
On the night of February 25, Fan Zhendong achieved two magical "11", five months later in the Paris Olympics, can he create new brilliance?