On April 18, in the knockout round of the 2024 Table Tennis Men's Singles World Cup, Ma Long, the national table tennis team, defeated the famous straight board player and French team Felix Lebrun 4-2 and advanced to the quarterfinals.
In this way, the national table tennis has locked three places in the top eight.
In the first game, Malone started to establish an advantage and won 11-7 with a lead. In the second game, Lebrun led 7-4, and Malone scored 10-7 game points in a row, won 11-8, and took a 2-0 lead.
In the third game, Malone led 6-2, and Lebrun responded with a reversal of 11-7 to recover a game. In the fourth game, Malone led 9-4 at the end of the game, Lebrun chased the points, Malone paused and came back 10-6 game points, won 11-8, and led 3-1.
In the fifth game, the key point at the end of the game, Lebrun won 10-7 game points, 11-8. In the sixth game, after 8-8, Ma Long scored 11-8 in a row, thus winning the game 4-2!
In another game that ended earlier, Lin Gaoyuan 4-2 Slovenian team Darko, Lin Gaoyuan won three games in a row, Darko chased two games in a row, and Lin Gaoyuan seized the opportunity to win the game in the sixth game.
In this area, Fan Zhendong and Lin Shidong faced off in the first round, the national table tennis locked a place in the quarterfinals, the winner of the two played against Lin Gaoyuan, and the national table tennis locked a place in the top four in advance.