On the afternoon of April 19, Beijing time, the table tennis Macau World Cup continued, and Ma Long, the national table tennis Grand Slam and two-time World Cup men's singles champion, appeared again to face the Japanese national champion Hayasuke Togami.
At present, Japan's men's singles is close to annihilation, only Tomokazu Zhang broke into the semi-finals alone, and Ma Long is the second athlete to get a ticket to the semi-finals, and the competition is very fierce!
Highlights of the game
Hayasuke Togami, who was born in 2001, is the famous "King of the Civil War" in Japanese men's table tennis, and not long after his debut, he won the three major Olympic forces in Japan at that time, Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Mizutani Hayabusa, and Niwa Takashi, and later won the men's singles championship of the national championships twice, but the results in the foreign war were not ideal, and he had never broken through the main force of national table tennis before.
Ma Long is a legendary athlete who everyone is very familiar with, the player who has won the most world championship titles in the history of table tennis, and his skills are far above Hayasuke Togami, but after all, he is a 35-year-old veteran, and the years are not forgiving, and he must not underestimate any juniors.
The process of the game
After the start of the game, the two came up and began to boldly use long balls to contain each other, without too much testing, and entered the state very quickly, but because of this, everyone was also ready to play long balls, so they were not so easy to be attacked by the other party, but in the fast-paced hold, the veteran obviously suffered, and Malone immediately lost a game with 5-11 regrets.
In the second game, Malone encountered a certain impact in the first half, but soon used his strong first three board control and forehand arc ball strength to complete a counterattack, and then pulled back a city 11-5, gradually finding the feeling of the game.
In the third game, Malone still couldn't keep up with Hayasuke Togami's rhythm, and once chased only 2 points, but was interrupted by the opponent's timeout, and then lost points in a row and lost 7-11 again.
In the fourth game, Malone started behind again, and in the face of Hayasuke Togami's crazy attack, Malone slowed down Hayasuke Togami's rhythm by adding a spin and rubbing the ball, and at the same time cooperated with the straight ball to contain Hayasuke Togami's sideways attack, and soon achieved a reversal, and then successfully won 11-6, and the big score was tied 2-2, and the two sides returned to the same running line.
In the fifth game, Ma Long's state continued to rise, and he began to yell on the court to cheer for himself, and he also opened and closed more on the offensive line, and soon defeated Hayasuke Togami in all links, and then easily passed the test with 11-3, and the big score was 3-2 to achieve a reversal, successfully forcing Hayasuke Togami into a desperate situation, and winning one more game can lock the victory.
In the sixth game, Hayasuke Togami fought against the water but was unable to return to the sky, Ma Long continued to maintain his advantage, leading 9-1 when he came up, and finally ended the battle easily 11-3, thus reversing and eliminating Hayasuke Togami, advancing to the men's singles semifinals, and continuing to impact the third personal crown, which is worth looking forward to!