On April 18, Beijing time, the knockout round of the 2024 Table Tennis Macau World Cup is in full swing. In the just-concluded men's singles 1/8 finals, Ma Long, the main force of national table tennis, played against Lebrun, and Ma Long played well, defeating French star Felix Lebrun 4-2 and successfully advancing to the quarterfinals. In this way, in the men's singles quarterfinals, the national table tennis has accounted for 2 seats.
Malone has never lost since he played Felix, which also gives Malone a psychological advantage. For the veteran Ma Long, it is best to solve it in four games, after all, physical fitness is a test for him.
As soon as Ma Long came up, he continued to play bravely in the group stage, staring at Felix's serve, starting directly with a forehand, controlling the rhythm and landing point of the first three boards, and Felix did not have much way to win the first two games 11-7/11-8
In the third game, Malone continued to perform strongly at the beginning, leading 6-4 into the middle game, but then Malone made more unnecessary mistakes, Felix used the quality of the backhand snowboard to chase points in a row, and overtook the score, 8-6 lead into the key points, 11-7 to pull back a game.
In the fourth game, after Felix tasted the sweetness, he tried to fight with Ma Long, but Ma Long did not give the other party a chance, and Felix stole Ma Long's backhand long ball many times and was directly sideways to score by Ma Long, and Ma Long won another game 11-8.
In the fifth game, Felix, who fought against the water, fought fiercely, and also changed the position of the serve, and sent a short forehand to Ma Long, which achieved good results, Ma Long was basically in the chase from the beginning, when Ma Long chased to 7 draws, Ma Long made a mistake, half of the stage did not pull, Felix 10-7 got the game point, 11-8 and then pulled back a game.
In the sixth game, Malone played very actively, leading 5-2 at the beginning, Felix was penalized for serving back and throwing back, Felix, who was 3-5 behind, was not affected, strengthened the rotation of the ball, and chased the score to 6 draws, and Malone used his own service and grabbing tactics to pull away again to 8-6. Felix tied the score again by landing through the Malone defence. Malone took advantage of the change in serve spin to score two points in a row to get the match point 10-8, and Felix returned the ball to wipe the side and Malone won the sixth game 11-8. In this way, Malone defeated Felix 4-2 and became the second player to enter the quarterfinals.
In the earlier match between the two national table tennis players, Wang Yidi defeated Zhang Benmeihe 1-4, and Lin Gaoyuan defeated the European champion Darko 4-2, because with Ma Long's promotion, the men's eight-strong table tennis has accounted for two seats.