On April 17, 2024, Beijing time, the table tennis World Cup in Macao continued! In the just-concluded men's singles group stage, the world's No. 2 Fan Zhendong defeated Hong Kong's famous Huang Zhenting 3-1 and became the ninth person in the national table tennis to advance to the round of 16! At present, there are only two champions of the last Incheon Championship, Sun Yingsha and Liang Jingkun, who will appear later! The national table tennis Jinhua Kuoman defeated the South Korean star Tian Zhixi in a small score and became the only player out of the national table tennis!
Fan Zhendong has been disturbed by the outside world in recent times, the state has fluctuated, the world ranking was overtaken by Wang Chuqin and slipped to No. 2, the last stop of the Incheon Championship semi-finals lost to the Brazilian star Hugo out, the state has not yet recovered to the best state, as the Olympic Games are getting closer and closer, although the Olympic singles qualification has been locked, but the current state is still not reassuring! This Macau World Cup is an excellent opportunity to test himself again, I believe Fan Zhendong will not let go easily!
In this game, Fan Zhendong's state is still unstable, the first game is easily won 11-5, and in the second game, there was a mistake at the critical moment and Huang Zhenting pulled back a game 11-8! In the third game, Fan Zhendong withstood the pressure at the critical moment and won 11-9! In the fourth game, Fan Zhendong won another game with 11-7, and the total score was 3-1 to defeat the Hong Kong star and successfully advance to the round of 16!
The national table tennis has now achieved a record of 9 wins and 1 loss! Among them, the men's singles Ma Long swept Canada's Li Yuanzhang 4-0, winning both games in the group stage! Lin Gaoyuan 4-0 Taipei world champion Zhuang Zhiyuan, ranking first in the group stage with one win and one draw. Wang Chuqin 4-0 Kazakhstan's famous Glasmenko, 1 win and 1 draw in the group stage! Teenager Lin Shidong swept European future star Alex Lebrun 4-0, winning all 2 games in the group stage without losing a game! 5 national table tennis men's singles have successfully advanced to the round of 16!
National table tennis women's singles won 4 out of 5 matches! Wang Manyu swept India's first sister Batra 4-0, winning all 2 games in the group stage! Wang Yidi drew 2-2 with Shan Xiaona, 1 win and 1 draw won the first place in the group with a small score advantage. Chen Meng defeated India's Akula 3-1 and won both games in the group! Chen Xingtong drew 2-2 with Thailand's Olawan Palanam, narrowly winning and advancing to the round of 16 with a small score of one point! Kuo Man drew 2-2 with South Korea's Tian Zhixi, and unfortunately went out with a small point disadvantage! Became the first and possibly the last player to go out of the national table tennis!
In foreign associations, Japan's Tomokazu Zhang defeated Gross by virtue of a small score to advance to the round of 16, and Japan's first sister Hina Hayada beat Romania's Samara 2-0 and won all two games in the group to advance! In addition, Zhang Benmei and Miu Hirano both won both games to advance! South Korea, Tian Zhixi and Zhu Qianxi successfully advanced to the round of 16, and famous players Lim Jong-hoon and Ahn Jae-hyun were out! German star Qiu Dang also went out early, French star Yuan Jiannan was eliminated after losing to Miu Hirano, and Swedish star Moregard was in poor form recently, losing 1-3 to Asal and failing to advance!