On the evening of April 17, Beijing time, the third round of the group stage of the WTT Macau World Cup was over, and only one of the 8 members of the national table tennis team missed the top 16 of the World Cup, and the other 7 people all advanced. In the morning and afternoon games, women's singles Wang Yidi and Chen Meng advanced to the top 16, men's singles Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan advanced to the top 16, and in the evening game, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, Sun Yingsha, Lin Shidong, Fan Zhendong, and Liang Jingkun played one after another, and finally advanced to the top 16 together.
In the afternoon to evening game, Wang Manyu took the lead, her opponent was the Indian star Batra, and finally Wang Manyu swept Batra 4-0, with a score of 11-6, 11-4, 11-9, 11-4 in four games, Wang Manyu successfully advanced to the round of 16 with the top result of the group.
The second player was Lin Shidong, his opponent was French star Alex Lebrun, and in the end, Lin Shidong also swept his opponent with a score of 4-0 to advance to the round of 16, with the scores of 11-7, 11-8, 11-8, 11-4 in four games.
At 18:20, Chen Xingtong played, her opponent was Olawan, and finally the two fought 2-2, with a score of 14-12, 11-6, 10-12, 7-11 in four games, Chen Xingtong was lucky to win the first place in the group with a 42-41 advantage and advanced to the round of 16, avoiding the crisis of deducting 3000 bonus points, and Chen Xingtong qualified from the G6 group!
At 8 o'clock in the evening, Fan Zhendong played, after winning 4-0 in the first round, Fan Zhendong lost 1 point in this round, he defeated Huang Zhenting 3-1, and the scores in the four games were 11-5, 8-11, 11-9, 11-7, although he lost 1 point, Fan Zhendong still easily entered the round of 16 and advanced towards the 4th consecutive championship.
After the Fan Zhendong match, the women's singles player Sun Yingsha played, his opponent was Chen Siyu, there was no suspense in the game, Sun Yingsha defeated her opponent 4-0, and the score was 11-7, 11-7, 11-9, 11-9 in four games. Sun Yingsha won 2 consecutive wins in the group stage, with a total score of 8-0 and easily advanced to the round of 16.
The last one to play was Liang Jingkun, Liang Jingkun won the first game 11-6, and won the second game 11-2, and finally Liang Jingkun defeated the opponent without suspense and also entered the World Cup round of 16.
As a result, in the singles competition of this WTT Macao World Cup, a total of 12 national table tennis players played, and only one person was out in the end, she was the women's singles player Kuo Man, she and South Korea's Tian Zhixi played 2-2, and finally missed the round of 16 because of the difference of 3 points in the group stage, and she became the first and only national table tennis player who was eliminated in the group stage.