The Macau Table Tennis Singles World Cup is underway, and this year's competition will compete for the top 4 seats in men's and women's singles.
Men's Singles:
Ma Long 4-2 Uemi Hayaura
After the Tokyo Olympics, Ma Long, the former "hexagonal warrior", was labeled as "unstable", and he has lost many foreign wars in the past two years, and his state has fluctuated greatly.
This time against the Japanese star Hayabusa Togami, in the case of a big score of 1-2 behind, Ma Long refused to reverse, won three games in a row, and defeated Hayasuke Togami 4-2 with a big score and successfully advanced to the top 4.
Tomokazu Zhang 4-2 Anton Carlberg
In the last round, Carlberg just eliminated the Chinese player Liang Jingkun, and the momentum is flourishing, and Zhang Benzhihe and Carlberg have played a total of 7 times, Carlberg is ahead of Zhang Benzhihe with 4 wins, the strength of the two is relatively close, and Carlberg has better momentum.
After the start of the game, the two started a crazy tug-of-war, and the scores of each game were almost the same, and finally Zhang Benzhihe withstood the pressure and defeated Carlberg 4-2 to advance to the semifinals.
It's a pity that Carlberg cleared the way for Zhang Benzhihe, if Liang Jingkun was not eliminated, I am afraid that Zhang Benzhihe would not be so easily promoted.
Lin Gaoyuan 4-2 Fan Zhendong
Lin Gaoyuan, who stumbled all the way, defeated Fan Zhendong 4-2 to enter the top 4, during this time Fan Zhendong's state is really incomprehensible, Singapore Grand Slam lost to Chinese teenager Lin Shidong, Incheon Championship lost foreign wars, and now the Macau World Cup lost to Lin Gaoyuan, can such Fan Zhendong really play in the Paris Olympics?
Although the two played very closely, there is no right or wrong in competitive sports, only winning and losing, Fan Zhendong stopped in the semifinals, which also made the men's singles quota for the Paris Olympics confusing!
Women's Singles:
Chen Meng 4-0 Miu Hirano
Chen Meng's state in this World Cup can be called "brave", from the start to the top 4, almost all of them were swept 4-0, and he regained the form he was in at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
In the semifinals against Miyu Hirano, Chen Meng also showed no mercy to his subordinates, and played a super high level of line change and holding, and finally ended early with a big score of 4-0, and the face of Japanese coach Miyu Hirano was black!
Wang Manyu 4-1 Hina Hayata
If the worst Japanese player in 2024 is selected, it must be Japan's first sister Hina Hayata, this year's World Championships Hina Hayada first eliminated her Japanese teammates, and then let the Chinese players eliminate, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu lost all over again.
Wang Manyu and Hina Hayada This game is very interesting, the two are similar in shape and play relatively close, but Wang Manyu has no choice but to be better and send Hina Hayada home 4-1, and Wang Manyu advanced to the top 4.
Zhang Benmei and Adriana Diaz 4-1
In the match against Japan's Diaz, Zhang Benmeihe scored 11-3, 11-7, 11-2, 11-8.
This time, the Zhang brothers and sisters are definitely the chosen ones, from the beginning of the competition to the present, they have not met Chinese players, and both of them have entered the top 4 and become the only Japanese seedling!