At the Table Tennis World Cup held in Macau, China, the national table tennis men's team performed strongly in the group stage, and all six players locked the top spot to advance, but in the first round of the knockout round, Liang Jingkun, the men's singles champion of the Incheon Championship, broke out and lost to Carlberg, while Lin Shidong lost to Fan Zhendong in the derby, while Wang Chuqin, Ma Long and Lin Gaoyuan played a triumphant song in the foreign war, the penultimate match day of the main match, World Cup 1/ The 4 finals kicked off, the first to appear is the hexagonal warrior Ma Long, he will compete with the Japanese star Hayasuke Togami for a place in the semifinals, the two have faced each other 2 times in the past, the Dragons have maintained a winning record, the most recent meeting was at the Pyeongchang Asian Championships last season, when Ma Long swept Hayasuke Togami cleanly, which is why fans are optimistic about the prospects of the Dragons before the game! Hayasuke Togami performed well in this game, taking a big lead twice, but the steady Dragons still won 4-2 to advance to the men's singles semifinals!
Game 1:
After the start of the first game, Hayasuke Togami entered the state very quickly, and was very well prepared for Ma Long's long ball, and was very decisive in receiving the serve, and played momentum at the beginning, and quickly established a 4-1 lead, but the experienced Dragon team, not in a hurry, still played very patiently, in the multi-shot holding stage, with a forehand assault straight line, gradually chased the score to 4-6, but unfortunately Ma Long's next backhand connection continued to make mistakes, so that Hayasuke Togami opened the score again, and took the lead 11-5.
Game 2:
Ma Long, who lost in the backhand in the first game, chose where to fall in the second game, and got up from where, and used his backhand to twist and pull with the opponent as soon as he came up, and scored 2 points in the opening stage, after Hayasuke Togami overtook the score to 3-2 by fighting, the Dragons twisted the long ball in the middle with their backhand, restrained Hayasuke Togami, and directly blasted out 5-0 to regain the initiative, and equalized the score with 11-5 as desired.
Game 3:
Hayasuke Togami, who was educated by Ma Long's backhand in the first game, began to give the Dragons more forehand long balls in the third game, and the sudden change of tactics also allowed him to establish a 6-1 lead in the middle game, although Ma Long stubbornly chased the difference to only 1 point, but Hayasuke Togami relied on the change of serve to take a big lead again with 11-7.
Game 4:
In the fourth game, Hayasuke Togami continuously twisted Ma Long's forehand diagonal and scored 2 points in a row to take the lead, but after the Dragons strengthened their forehand defense, they directly responded with a wave of scoring climaxes, overtaking the score to 7-3, and finally 11-7 again let the two sides return to the same running line.
Game 5:
In the crucial fifth game, Malone continued his hot state, relying on his killer semi-stage attack as soon as he came up, establishing a 4-1 lead, although Hayasuke Togami also wanted to stop the decline, but Malone did not give him any chance and won the key game 11-3.
Game 6:
In his match point game, Ma Long blasted out a wave of 7-0 as soon as he came up, directly stunned Hayasuke Togami, and also lost the suspense of this game, and the more brave the Dragon team also locked the victory with 11-3.
After winning this Sino-Japanese duel, Ma Long broke into the men's singles semifinals of the World Cup, and in the next semi-finals, Ma Long's opponent will be the winner between Wang Chuqin and South Korean star Zhang Yuzhen.