Table tennis Macau World Cup: The top 8 of men's singles were born, G4 and Japan 2, Wang Chuqin narrowly won
On April 18, Beijing time, the men's singles quarterfinals of the table tennis Macau World Cup were all born, and the four main national table tennis players Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, and Lin Gaoyuan were promoted, Liang Jingkun lost to Sweden's Carlberg in a hard battle, and 19-year-old Lin Shidong wasted match points and lost to teammate Fan Zhendong in the case of a big lead.
In terms of foreign associations, in addition to Carlberg, who defeated Liang Jingkun, the rest of the athletes who advanced are the two core main players of the Japanese team - Tomokazu Zhangmoto and Hayasuke Togami, and South Korean player Zhang Yuzhen is the upset and eliminated the higher-ranked Chinese Taipei star Lin Yunru.
Upper Half District
The top seed Wang Chuqin's opponent in the round of 16 is the Brazilian star Hugo, who only defeated Fan Zhendong in the WTT Incheon Championship not long ago, and has won Lin Gaoyuan, Bol, Zhang Benzhihe and others in the past, with strong strength, Wang Chuqin faced a test, but he came up with a bad start, 9-11 first lost a city.
In the second game, Wang Chuqin still played very hard, and finally won 11-9, followed by 7-11 losses in the third game, and 11-4 in the fourth game. In the fifth game, Wang Chuqin fought viciously to win 11-8, and then in the sixth game, he withstood the pressure and locked the victory 13-11, thus reversing Hugo with a big score of 4-2 and advancing to the men's singles quarterfinals without danger.
The 35-year-old Grand Slam veteran Ma Long met 17-year-old French hopeful Felix Lebrun in the top half, who is currently the highest-ranked men's singles player in the foreign association, but has never won the main national table tennis team, although this competition is fierce, but in the end it was won by Ma Long 4-2 (11-7, 11-8, 7-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-8), and missed the promotion.
Not long ago, the South Korean star Zhang Yuzhen, who defeated Wang Chuqin at the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, once again exerted his might, falling behind 0-2 and reversing Chinese Taipei's famous Lin Yunru 4-2, and the opponent in the next round is Wang Chuqin, and the national table tennis needs to be prepared for it! As for the Japanese national champion Hayasuke Togami, he defeated Egypt's Omar 4-2, and will next challenge Ma Long.
Lower Half Ward
In the second half of the national table tennis Fan Zhendong and Lin Shidong, a thrilling duel was launched - although Lin Shidong only ushered in his 19th birthday on April 18, Fan Zhendong had lost him twice before, and Fan Zhendong was once 1-3 behind and was taken to the match point by a big score, but finally 4-3 successfully reversed (7-11, 9-11, 12-10, 6-11, 11-9, 13-11, 15-13).
Lin Gaoyuan met Slovenia's Darko, who won 4-2 (11-7, 11-8, 11-9, 7-11, 4-11, 11-8) after six games, and then will face Fan Zhendong, while Liang Jingkun, who has been in good form lately, failed to continue his good form this time, losing 3-4 to Sweden's Carlberg (11-3, 8-11, 5-11, 6-11, 11-8, 11-9, 6-11).
Japan's Tomokazu Haramoto was ruled out of the group stage and later found out that he had miscalculated the points before he "recovered" the knockout round, and he met Portugal's Freitas in the round of 16, this time with a 2-0 lead and a 4-2 victory, where he will face Carlberg next.
Judging from the recent series of competitions, the pressure of the national table tennis men's singles is very high, and it has lost many times in less than four months in 2024, and no one has been spared from the five main forces, which shows that the competition in this project is indeed fierce, and the next World Cup and the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam and the Paris Olympics are facing a severe test, and the Chinese team should be careful!