The 2024 ITTF Macau World Cup continues, and among the national table tennis players who have played in the second round, only the women's singles teenager Kuo Man missed the promotion because of the disadvantage of small points. In an eye-catching men's singles strong dialogue, the national table tennis men's singles hope Lin Shidong unexpectedly defeated the French star Alex 4-0 in four straight games, and advanced to the men's singles round of 16 after two consecutive wins in the group stage. Teenager Lin Shidong performed strongly, while veteran Chen Xingtong won first and then drew in the match with Thailand's Olawan, but although he was forced to draw by his opponent, he won the first game and finally advanced to the top 16 of women's singles.
Lin Shidong, the youngest player in this World Cup, faced the French teenager Alex, who is on par with Lin Shidong in the world rankings, and his comprehensive strength is relatively close. Lin Shidong defeated Minoan 4-0 in the first game, while Alex only drew 2-2 with his opponent, and in order to advance to the knockout round, Alex had to beat Lin Shidong, and Lin Shidong only needed to draw Alex to advance. Lin Shidong has made rapid progress in the past year or so, and his world ranking once rose to seventh in the world, but in recent times, Lin Shidong's world ranking has begun to decline because he has not had too many outstanding results, and he has now fallen out of the top ten. Although Alex's comprehensive strength is not as strong as his younger brother Felix, it is not low compared to Lin Shidong, so the outcome of this game depends on the on-the-spot performance.
At the beginning of the game, both of them played the vitality that young players should have, both of them only focused on attacking, and after a short hold, Lin Shidong gradually pulled away the score, and at the end of the game, Lin Shidong held the lead and won the first game 11-7. In the second game, the competition between the two sides was still fierce, but Lin Shidong always had a certain advantage, Alex, who had no way out, failed to tie the score, and Lin Shidong won another game 11-8, leading 2-0. Because Alex was forced to draw by Minoin in the first game, Alex missed the promotion even if he won the next two games, but Lin Shidong, who advanced in advance, was not self-satisfied, he still played actively, although Alex played very tenaciously in the third game, but never able to pose a big enough threat to Lin Shidong, Lin Shidong quickly won two more games 11-8, 11-4, swept Lin Shidong with a big score of 4-0, and advanced to the top 16 of men's singles.
Compared with the strength of the teenager Lin Shidong, the national table tennis women's table tennis world champion Chen Xingtong played a little decent, defeating his opponent Liu Xinyin in the first game to let Chen Xingtong occupy the initiative to advance, and as long as he drew with Olawan in the second game, he could lock in a knockout place. In the first game, the two sides fell into a hard battle, the two have been biting the score, Chen Xingtong took the initiative on the field in the first half, Olawan made efforts to tie the score in the second half, Chen Xingtong withstood the pressure at the end of the game and narrowly won the first city 14-12, and in the second game, Chen Xingtong's state gradually picked up, and after playing a good start, he firmly took the initiative and took the next city 11-6, leading 2-0. After qualifying ahead of schedule, Chen Xingtong was slackened in his thinking, Olawan did not choose to give up because of the early exit, she wasted four game points in the third game and then pulled back a city 12-10, and in the fourth game, Olawan won 11-7 more and more, the two sides shook hands 2-2, and Chen Xingtong advanced to the women's singles round of 16 without danger.