On April 23, Beijing time, the 2024 ITTF Macau Men's and Women's World Cup came to a successful conclusion, and the Chinese team won the men's and women's singles championships. In the women's singles final, the world's No. 1 "Little Devil" Sun Yingsha won three games in a row and reversed teammate Wang Manyu 4-3 to win the championship. In the men's singles final, "Grand Slam" Ma Long won four consecutive games against teammate Lin Gaoyuan to win the championship.
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 women's table tennis sent Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Chen Xingtong, Kuo Man and other 6 players, and the Chinese men's table tennis sent Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun, and Lin Shidong to participate.
For the Japanese team, Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Miwa Zhangmoto and siblings, as well as Hina Hayata, Miu Hirano, Hayasuke Togami, Teruma Matsushima and other players played.
Of the 12 players of the Chinese team, except for the teenager Kuo Man, who did not advance to the knockout round in the women's singles competition, Sun Yingsha and Ma Long and other players successfully advanced to the top 16 of the men's and women's singles.
World Champion Chen Xingtong struggled in the round-robin group stage when she drew 2-2 with Thailand's Olawan Palanam. In this game, Chen Xingtong had a strong start of 2-0, but after that, he was beaten by his opponent twice in a row and missed a good game, with the scores of 14-12, 11-6, 10-12, 7-11 in four games.
Relatively small, Chen Xingtong led Olawan Paranam by 42-41 points to advance to the round of 16. But in the women's singles 1/8 finals, she met the world's No. 1 "Little Devil" Sun Yingsha, and missed the semifinals 1-4.
It is worth mentioning that in this competition, Zhang Benzhihe, Zhang Benmei and his brothers and sisters played well and all reached the top 4.
However, the Zhang brothers and sisters lost 0-4 to Lin Gaoyuan and 2-4 to Wang Manyu in the semifinals. In the final final, Lin Gaoyuan won the match point 3-0 in the match with Ma Long, but unfortunately lost four games in a row in the subsequent game and missed the championship 3-4. Wang Manyu lost three games in a row to Sun Yingsha and missed the championship when she won the match point 3-1.