On April 21, Beijing time, it was reported that the 2024 ITTF Macau Men's and Women's World Cup will start the championship match, and CCTV5 will broadcast the live broadcast of the game. In the men's singles final, the "Grand Slam" Ma Long played against teammate Lin Gaoyuan. In the semifinals, Lin Gaoyuan played at his peak, and he swept Japan's Tomokazu Haramoto 4-0.
The 2024 ITTF World Cup Macau is a very important training event before the Paris Olympics, and all players attach great importance to it. In this competition, the Chinese men's table tennis sent Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun, and Lin Shidong to participate.
Among them, Fan Zhendong, the four-time World Cup champion, Wang Chuqin, the world's No. 1 "big head", and Ma Long, the "Grand Slam", are the favorites to win the championship, but no one is optimistic about Lin Gaoyuan. However, he used his excellent performance to defeat Fan Zhendong and Zhang Benzhihe in a row to advance to the men's singles final.
Among them, the semi-finals against Tomokazu Zhang played particularly excitingly. Earlier in the World Cup men's singles quarterfinals, Japan's Tomokazu Zhangmoto faced Sweden's Anton Carlberg, who narrowly defeated "Big Fat" Liang Jingkun 4-3 in the last round.
In this game with Carlberg, Tomokazu Zhang lost one game at 9-11 at the beginning, equalized the score at 11-7, and then lost another game with the same 9-11, falling behind 1-2. In the next game, Tomokazu Zhang stepped up his offensive and achieved very good results.
From the fourth game to the sixth game, Zhang Benzhihe won three games in a row, and eliminated Carlberg with a total score of 4-2, and advanced to the men's singles semifinals, with the scores of six games in this game: 9-11, 11-7, 9-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-4.
In the semifinals, Zhang Benzhihe faced Lin Gaoyuan, who eliminated the four-time World Cup champion Fan Zhendong. In the past, Tomokazu Zhang defeated Lin Gaoyuan in the finals of several important competitions, and he also became Lin Gaoyuan's bitter master. This time, Lin Gaoyuan faced Zhang Benzhihe again, like a different person, played very resolutely, and finally swept 4-0 to advance to the finals, congratulations to Lin Gaoyuan!