On April 16, Beijing time, at the 2024 Macau ITTF Men's and Women's World Cup, the last appearance of national table tennis was the teenager Kuo Man, who faced Hong Jianfang in the first round of the group stage. Kuo Man played well, the first three games were quickly resolved, and the fourth game completed a big reversal, sweeping Hong Jianfang 4-0. The 12 players of the national table tennis team achieved 10 wins and 2 draws in the first round of the game, and their performance was very good.
In this competition, 12 national table tennis players participated, and the first match day was all seeded players, with 9 wins and 2 draws, and Lin Gaoyuan and Wang Chuqin were forced to draw by their opponents with a 2-0 lead. On the second match day, only Kuo Man played in the national table tennis, she was in the 13th group, the seeded player in this group is Tian Zhixi, who swept Hong Jianfang 4-0 on the first match day, Kuo Man will strive not to lose points, and then compete with Tian Zhixi for the first place in the group.
Kuo Man quickly entered the game, always maintained a lead of 2 or 3 points in the first half of the first game, Hong Jianfang, as a veteran, played a little similar to Ni Xialian, but there were more unnecessary mistakes, Kuo Man seized the opportunity, scored continuously at the end of the game, and won a game 11-5. In the second game, Kuo Man started 5-1, Hong Jianfang once chased it to 4-5, Kuo Man then scored in a row, and directly got the game point at 10-4, Hong Jianfang saved two game points, and Kuo Man won another game 11-6.
In the third game, Kuaiman established an early lead, continued to expand the lead, and won another game 11-3. In the fourth game, Kuo Man fell behind 0-3 at the beginning, Qiu Yi called a timeout, Kuo Man made too many mistakes, suddenly lost his touch, and fell behind 0-6. Subsequently, Kuo Man continued to chase points, Hong Jianfang called a timeout when he was leading 9-5, Kuo Man did not give up, scored in a row, and won the fourth game with an 11-9 reversal, and swept Hong Jianfang 4-0.
So far, all 12 players of the national table tennis have played the first round of games, with a total of 10 wins and 2 draws, all 6 players in the women's team have won, and Wang Chuqin and Lin Gaoyuan of the men's team have eaten a draw. However, there is a new change in Wang Chuqin's first group, Ahn Jae-hyun, who previously drew with Wang Chuqin, failed to seize the opportunity and was forced to draw 2-2 by Kirill Glasmenko, which is definitely good news for Wang Chuqin, as long as he does not lose to Kirill Glasmenko in the final round, Wang Chuqin will advance to the knockout round.
In addition, in the Women's Singles Group 7 match, Sutasini Savitabut, who had previously drawn with Mimato Ito, also missed the opportunity to draw 2-2 with Wang Amy. As long as she defeats Amy Wang in the last round, Ito will be able to advance to the top 16 of the women's singles!