On April 18, in the first round of the 2024 Table Tennis Men's Singles World Cup knockout round, the dialogue between the two national table tennis rivals, Chinese Taipei team Lin Yunru faced the South Korean team Zhang Yuzhen, Lin Yunru led 2-0, and Zhang Yuzhen won four games in a row 4-2 reversal. In this way, Lin Yunru traveled in one round.
Zhang Yuzhen advanced to the quarterfinals and waited for the winner of Wang Chuqin and Hugo.
Zhang Yuzhen
Lin Yunru
Zhang Yuzhen 4 to 2 Lin Yunru
In the first game, it was inseparable, and in the end, it was 9-9 and then exploded, and Lin Yunru won 13-11. In the second game, Lin Yunru crushed the situation and won 11-5 and achieved a 2-0 advantage.
The third game became the turning point of the game, Zhang Yuzhen led 8-4, Lin Yunru chased it to 9-9, and fought again at the game point, Lin Yunru missed a game point, and Zhang Yuzhen narrowly won 14-12. After that, the three games were one-sided, Zhang Yuzhen defeated Lin Yunru 11-5, 11-6, 11-5, and finally 4-2.
Wang Chuqin
Zhang Yuzhen waited for Wang Chuqin
Zhang Yuzhen advanced to the quarterfinals of men's singles.
In the same quarter, in another game, the world No. 1 Wang Chuqin of national table tennis faced the Brazilian team Hugo. For Wang Chuqin, this sign is also very hard. Hugo defeated Fan Zhendong in the Incheon Championship.
As for Zhang Yuzhen, in the team competition of the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, he defeated Wang Chuqin.