On April 18, Beijing time, the 1/8 finals of the 2024 Macao World Cup were in full swing, and the national table tennis players won 3 wins and 2 losses in the 5 matches played during the day, Lin Gaoyuan, Ma Long, and Chen Meng got tickets to the quarterfinals, and Liang Jingkun and Wang Yidi were eliminated and stopped in the top 16.
Men's Singles
Lin Gaoyuan 4-2 Darko Joczyk [11-7, 11-8, 11-9, 7-11, 4-11, 11-8]
Malone 4-2 Felix Lebrun [11-7, 11-8, 7-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-8]
Liang Jingkun 3-4 Anton Carlberg [11-3, 8-11, 5-11, 6-11, 11-8, 11-9, 6-11]
Facing the challenge of Slovenia's Darko Joczyk, Lin Gaoyuan fought fiercely for 45 minutes. Lin Gaoyuan did not encounter too many challenges in the first two games, but in the third game, he fell behind 6-9 at one point, and at the critical moment, Lin Gaoyuan scored 5 points in a row to achieve the next city. In the fourth game, Lin Gaoyuan lost 5 points in a row when he was leading 7-6 and was pulled back by the opponent. In the fifth game, Lin Gaoyuan still couldn't find his touch, and fell behind 0-4 at the beginning, and Joczyk pulled another game 11-4. In the sixth game, when the two sides were entangled to 8 draws, Lin Gaoyuan suddenly scored 3 points in a row to lock the victory 11-8.
The veteran Malone encountered the French teenager F-Lebrun, and there was no suspense in the first game, and Malone led all the way to the top 11-7. In the second game, Malone hit a 6-0 scoring climax when he was 4-7 down and went to the next game at 11-8. In the third game, F-Lebrun fell behind 2-6 and let go of the fight to win 11-7. In the fourth game, Ma Long stabilized the situation after falling behind 1-3 and blasted a 5-0 attack wave, and finally won another game 11-8. In the fifth game, when Malone was leading 7-6, he suddenly lost 4 points in a row and lost the game 8-11. In the sixth game, the two sides fought fiercely to 8 draws, and Malone showed his big heart and scored 3 points in a row to end the battle 11-8, and the game took nearly 52 minutes.
Liang Jingkun, who has been in the limelight recently, has suffered a blow and lost the most undeserved match, which will have a big impact on his battle for an Olympic quota. Competing with Sweden's Carlberg, Liang Jingkun played normally in the first game and won 11-3, but then under the opponent's crazy fight, Liang Jingkun lost his touch and lost three games in a row 8-11, 5-11, 6-11. Although Liang Jingkun scored 4 points at the end of the fifth game to stop the bleeding 11-8 in time, and scored 2 points in a row after the sixth game was entangled to 9 draws, and won another game, but in the third game, Liang Jingkun failed to fight back after falling behind 0-3 at the beginning, Carlberg locked the victory 11-6 and reversed the test, Liang Jingkun missed the top 8, and the game took 1 hour.
Women's Singles
Wang Yidi 1-4 Zhang Benmei and [10-12, 11-6, 8-11, 6-11, 14-16]
Chen Meng 4-0 Sutasini Savitabut [12-10, 11-4, 11-5, 11-4].
The first to appear in the national table tennis women's singles is Wang Yidi, and the opponent is Miwa Zhangmoto, a Japanese genius girl who is not yet 16 years old. In the first game, the two sides were entangled from 1 draw to 10 draws, and at the critical moment, Wang Yidi lost 2 points in a row and lost a game first. In the second game, Wang Yidi took a 4-1 lead at the beginning and pulled back a game 11-6, but in the third and fourth games, Wang Yidi made consecutive mistakes after 5 draws, and finally lost two games to push himself into a desperate situation. In the fifth game, the two sides fought fiercely from 8 to 14 draws, at which time Wang Yidi dropped the chain and lost 2 points in a row, and finally lost the game with a total score of 1-4 and missed the quarterfinals. The defeat in this game made Wang Yidi lose 3,000 points, and the Paris Olympics can be said to have completely missed her, and the game took nearly 55 minutes. Judging from the strength shown by Zhang Benmeihe in this game, for the national table tennis women's team, the wolf is really coming.
Chen Meng's opponent in the 1/8 finals is Thailand's Sutasini, the opponent's strength is limited, the game has no suspense, although Chen Meng only won 12-10 in the first game, but the last three games did not encounter too many challenges and won three more games 11-4, 11-5, 11-4, so as to easily get the ticket to the quarterfinals with a total score of 4-0, and the battle took only 29 minutes to declare the end.
The schedule of the national table tennis players in the evening is as follows:
18:00, Wang Manyu VS Bernadette Szokos
18:50，樊振东VS林诗栋
19:40,000.
20:30, Wang Chuqin VS Hugo Caladrano