The 2024 ITTF Macau World Cup continues to compete in the knockout stage, and Wang Yidi, the world third in the national table tennis women's singles, was eliminated miserably, failing to usher in a good start to the knockout round for the national table tennis women's singles. In contrast, the performance of the national table tennis men's singles players was even better, with the first world champion Lin Gaoyuan and Grand Slam winner Ma Long knocking out European star Dakojoczyk 4-2. Felix advanced to the men's singles quarterfinals, Lin Gaoyuan will compete with the winner of the national table tennis world No. 2 Fan Zhendong and the teenager Lin Shidong for a men's singles semi-finals, which also means that the national table tennis has locked a men's singles semi-finals in this World Cup in advance, which is really gratifying, and Ma Long will compete with the winner between Kosuke Togami and Omar for the semi-finals, no matter who Ma Long plays against in the next round, the probability of winning is very high.
National table tennis world champion Lin Gaoyuan faced the European star Dakojoczyk, who was ranked in the top ten in the world in the world, and won the European men's singles championship many times, the comprehensive strength is quite strong, last year's championship It also defeated the national table tennis world No. 3 Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan is really not easy. Lin Gaoyuan first suppressed and then raised his head from the group stage, and was forced to draw 2-2 by Pucar in the first game of the group stage, but in the second game he swept Chinese Taipei world champion Zhuang Zhiyuan and advanced to the round of 16. Lin Gaoyuan is the most controversial among the main players of the national table tennis men's singles, he has repeatedly dropped the chain in key games to make him miss the Paris Olympics in advance, this World Cup Lin Gaoyuan urgently needs to prove himself in the game, Lin Gaoyuan, who is no longer young, has limited opportunities to prove himself in the national team in the future, this World Cup may be the last chance for Lin Gaoyuan to compete for the men's singles world championship in his career.
Lin Gaoyuan and Dakojoczyk are very fierce competition, at the beginning of the game Lin Gaoyuan quickly entered the state, in the first game Lin Gaoyuan started with a 7-1 scoring climax to take the lead 11-7, in the second game the first half of the game between the two sides was fiercely contested, Lin Gaoyuan relied on the second half of the excellent play to 11-8 and then the next city, the third game of the game between the two sides was difficult to solve, Lin Gaoyuan scored three points in a row when he was 8-9 behind to win 11-9, and the big score was 3-0 ahead of Dakojoczyk. Dakojoczyk then launched a crazy counterattack, and Lin Gaoyuan made the mistake of being soft on the lead, Dakojoczyk chased two games in a row 11-7, 11-4 to close the score to 2-3, the key sixth game Lin Gaoyuan began to fall behind, but he stubbornly chased the score to a 7-7 draw, at the end of the game Lin Gaoyuan scored consecutive points and finally won 11-8, the total score was 4-2 to eliminate Dakojoczyk, waiting for the winner between Lin Shidong and Fan Zhendong to challenge.
The 36-year-old veteran of national table tennis Ma Long faced the French 17-year-old Felix, Ma Long's age was 19 years older than his opponent, which means that Felix had not yet been born when Ma Long entered the national team, and the age difference between the two was very large. Felix has improved dramatically in recent years, soaring to sixth in the world rankings, and has a strong impact, with the two men winning their most recent meeting with Malone giving them a psychological advantage. In the first game, Malone had a better comprehensive performance to take the lead 11-7, and in the second game, Malone continued to occupy the initiative on the court, although Felix had the advantage of speed, but Malone still took the initiative on the court to take the initiative to take the next city 11-8, in the third game, Felix started behind and called a timeout to pull back a city after 11-7, and in the fourth game, Malone was not affected by the loss of the previous game and won 11-8, leading Felix 3-1, although Felix took advantage of Malone's physical decline in the fifth game to chase another game, but Malone seized the opportunity in the sixth game to win 11-8, and the total score was 4-2 to defeat the opponent, strongly advanced to the quarterfinals of men's singles.