News on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, Beijing time. Macau Table Tennis World Cup, the third match day today: Fan Zhendong meets Huang Zhenting. According to the score of the previous game, Xiaopang won the first game and was already qualified. Congratulations to Fan Zhendong.
Fan Zhendong's Group 2 opponents are Hong Kong's Wong Chun-ting and Germany's Duda. In the first game, Fan Zhendong swept Duda 4-0, with a score of 11-1, 11-9, 14-12, 11-9 in four games. In the second match, Duda defeated Huang Zhenting 3-1, and the score was 11-7, 11-7, 9-11, 11-8 in four games.
Previously, the Chengdu Mixed Team World Cup at the end of 2023 had a unique format. Xiaopang easily defeated Huang Zhenting 2-0 at that time, with a score of 11-7, 11-4.
In today's game, in the first game, Fan Zhendong won easily. 11-5! At this time, Chubby has already qualified, and the next three games are irrelevant. But Fan Zhendong still takes it seriously. In the second game, the two sides started from 3-3, and made many mistakes in this game 4-4, 5-5, 7-7 in a row, especially in the service round, and did not grasp both balls. However, the strength of Xiaopang's forehand and backhand was too strong, and he forced the score to become 8-8!
In the third game, the two fought to 5-5, and in the backhand holding stage, Huang Zhenting took the lead in changing, because he was already out, and the Hong Kong, China player also unloaded his burden and played as he pleased, which also created some trouble for Fan Zhendong. Fan Zhendong paid attention to the connection, increased rotation, changed the landing point, and the two held each other to 6-6. As soon as the camera turned, Huang Zhenting's off-court coach was Liu Guodong. When Fan Zhendong led 10-7, Huang Zhenting saved 2 match points, but then Xiaopang scored on the serve, 11-7, and the big score was 2-1!
In the fourth game, Chubby was also trying to warm up with such a game. The knockout rounds are more important, after all, Fan Zhendong is the winner of four championships in the past five World Cup competitions. When Xiaopang was 3-0 in this game, Huang Zhenting called a timeout. After the pause, when Xiaopang was leading 6-5, he dialed a thousand pounds in four or two, a straight line, and directly hit Huang Zhenting's "empty part", which was neat!
11-7, in the end, Fan Zhendong defeated Huang Zhenting 3-1!