The 2024 ITTF Saudi Arabia Grand Slam continues to compete in the second round of men's and women's singles, and the national table tennis got off to a bad start on this match day, with world No. 4 Liang Jingkun losing to Iran's Alamiyan and stopping in the second round of men's singles. However, the next national table tennis men's singles world No. 1 Wang Chuqin was in full form, facing a strong opponent like the world runner-up Ionescu, Wang Chuqin won three games in a row and swept the opponent with a total score of 3-0, taking the lead in the third round of men's singles. In another men's singles second round match at the same time, Chinese Taipei world champion Zhuang Zhiyuan played very tenaciously, he chased two games in a row to equalize the score after falling behind 0-2, but unfortunately Zhuang Zhiyuan was weak in the deciding game and finally failed to achieve a big reversal and was eliminated.
Wang Chuqin, the national table tennis world champion and the top seed of the tournament, faced Romanian star Ionescu in the second round, who once won the men's doubles runner-up at the World Table Tennis Championships. Wang Chuqin failed to win his first career singles world championship in the men's singles semifinals at the last World Cup in Macau, and if he can win consecutive Grand Slam men's singles titles, Wang Chuqin can be regarded as proving that his world No. 1 title is not for nothing. Judging from the current situation, Wang Chuqin's participation in the men's singles competition of the Paris Olympics is already a sure thing, and if he can win consecutive championships in the competition, it will be of great help to Wang Chuqin to improve his self-confidence. In the first round of the game, he swept his opponent in three straight games, and in the contest with Ionescu, Wang Chuqin's comprehensive strength was superior, and it was not very difficult to win.
At the beginning of the game, Wang Chuqin quickly entered the state, the first game of the game between the two sides was quite fierce, Wang Chuqin maintained a two-point lead, he scored four points in a row when he was 6-4 to get the game point 10-4, after Ionescu saved the game point, Wang Chuqin scored and took the lead 11-5. In the second game, Wang Chuqin was full of firepower, and Ionescu was helpless in the face of Wang Chuqin's attack, Wang Chuqin scored nine points in a row to lead 9-0, although then Ionescu returned to courage but it was too late, Wang Chuqin won another game with an 11-3 disparity score, and the big score was 2-0 ahead of Ionescu. In the third game, the first half of the game between the two sides was fiercely contested, the two fought from 1 draw, 2 draws, 3 draws to 5 draws, Wang Chuqin scored four points in a row to open the score and took a 9-5 lead, and finally Wang Chuqin won 11-6, and the total score was 3-0 to sweep the men's doubles runner-up Ionescu at the World Table Tennis Championships, and advanced to the top 16 of men's singles.
In the first round of the game, Chinese Taipei veteran Zhuang Zhiyuan knocked out the world's top ten Lin Yunru in three straight games and advanced to the second round, and Zhuang Zhiyuan's opponent in this round was South Korean teenager Zhao Dacheng. In the first game, the two sides fought fiercely, Zhuang Zhiyuan was passive throughout the whole game, and although he tried his best, he still lost 9-11 and lost the first game. In the second game, Zhuang Zhiyuan was still passive, although he was experienced but his heart was more than enough, and the teenager Zhao Dacheng became more and more brave to the next city 11-8, leading 2-0. Zhuang Zhiyuan, who was behind by a large score, then launched a crazy counterattack, although the third game was behind at the beginning, he quickly adjusted his state, and overtook the score after a wave of scoring climax in the middle game and pulled back a game 11-7, and in the fourth game, Zhuang Zhiyuan took advantage of the victory to chase, using the opponent's impatient mentality to score continuously and chase another game 11-5, and the two sides fought to a 2-2 draw. In the deciding game, Zhuang Zhiyuan made a late effort, Zhao Dacheng won 11-7, defeated the World Table Tennis Championships doubles champion Zhuang Zhiyuan with a total score of 3-2, and advanced to the top 16 of men's singles.