On April 19, 2024, Beijing time, the 2024 Table Tennis World Cup in Macau ushered in the fifth day of competition. This is the return of the World Cup after three years due to the epidemic, and the national table tennis team is the team with the most championships in the event, with the men's World Cup winning 26 times and the women's World Cup winning 23 times. Among the active players, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long and Chen Meng have won the World Cup, and Chen Meng and Fan Zhendong are the defending champions of women's singles and men's singles respectively.
This year's national table tennis sent 12 players to participate, including men's singles players Fan Zhendong, Lin Shidong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan and Wang Chuqin, and women's singles players Kui Manhe, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, Chen Meng and Wang Yidi. The competition is divided into group stage and knockout stage, among the 12 players, only Kuaiman was eliminated in the group round-robin, and 11 people successfully advanced to the knockout stage. In the 1/8 match on the last match day, the national table tennis achieved a record of 7 wins and 4 losses, as follows.
- Men's Singles: Lin Gaoyuan 4:2 Darko Joczyk, Ma Long 4:2 Felix Lebrun, Lin Shidong 3:4 Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun 3:4 Anton Carlberg, Wang Chuqin 4:2 Hugo Calderano;
- A: Sun Yingsha 4:1 Chen Xingtong, Sutasini Savitabut 0:4, Bernadette Szokos 1:4 Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi 1:4 Zhang Benmeihe.
1/4 matches will be played on this match day, and the specific matchup draw table is as follows:
- Men's Singles: Wang Chuqin vs Zhang Yuzhen, Ma Long vs Hayasuke Togami, Tomokazu Zhang Ben vs Carlberg, Fan Zhendong vs Lin Gaoyuan;
- A: Sun Yingsha vs Zheng Yijing, A-La vs Miu Hirano, Wang Manyu vs Hina Hayata, Zhang Benmei and Diaz.
This competition is the only one of the few points races before the Paris Olympics, and as the competition progresses, the quota for participation has been basically cleared. In the men's team, with Liang Jingkun losing to Carlberg, he basically missed the Paris Olympics, Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong and Ma Long have a high probability of qualifying. In terms of the women's team, Wang Yidi defeated Zhang Benmeihe, and its Paris Olympics were definitely missing, and Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Chen Meng had a high probability of qualifying. Here's a look at the matchday report.
Marlon 4: 2 Hayasuke Togami
Ma Long is ranked 4th in the world, and Hayasuke Togami of Japan is ranked 25th. Ma Long is the first "super slam" male player in the history of table tennis to win the Olympics, World Championships, World Cup and other competitions, and has won five Olympic gold medals, and if he wins the team gold medal at this Paris Olympics, he will set a new Olympic record.
In the first game of the game, Hayasuke Togami was full of firepower, Ma Long seemed a little slow to heat up, falling behind 3:6 at the beginning, and then Hayasuke Togami continued to lead, and finally won the first game 11:5 and got off to a good start. In the second game, Ma Long fought back strongly, taking a 6:3 lead at the beginning, and then firmly controlled the game, and finally pulled back a game at 11:5. In the third game, Hayasuke Togami made a dream start of 6:1 at the beginning, and then although Ma Long stubbornly chased the score, he unfortunately lost 7:11 in the end. In the fourth game, Malone took a 5:3 lead after the start, and finally pulled back a game with 11:7, and the big score was 2:2. In the fifth game, Ma Long took the lead of 4:1, and then firmly controlled the game, and finally won the game 11:3, leading 3:2. In the sixth game, Ma Long took advantage of the victory to chase after him, and finally won the game with a quick victory of 11:3, and advanced with a big score of 4:2.