On May 13, Beijing time, the 2024 WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam came to a successful conclusion, with the Chinese team winning all 5 championships and the Japanese team losing 0 championships. Among them, in the men's singles final, the world's No. 1 "big head" Wang Chuqin defeated Germany's Francesca 4-2 to win the championship. In this competition, Wang Chuqin won 3 championships alone, and in the mixed doubles semifinals, his partner Sun Yingsha swept Japan's Tomokazu Zhangmoto/Hina Hayada 3-0 The combination was the most powerful.
The 2024 WTT Saudi Grand Slam is a very high-profile event. 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, and Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, and Ma Long are undoubtedly the favorites to win the championship. In the Japanese men's table tennis side, players from Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Hayasuke Togami, and Daito Shinozuka were sent to participate.
In this competition, the men's singles field can be described as an upset. Starting from the men's singles 1/16 finals, the big upsets have come one after another. First of all, Lin Gaoyuan, who had just swept the "bitter master" Tomokazu Zhang 4-0 and reached the men's singles final of the Macau World Cup, was eliminated in a match against Denmark's Jonatan Grote, and his opponent won four games with the score of 11-8, 11-7, 12-14, 13-11.
In the next men's singles 1/16 final, Liang Jingkun, who had won the Singapore Grand Slam not long ago, was also eliminated by Iran's Noshad Alamiyan 2-3. Immediately afterwards, Ma Long, the Macau World Cup champion, was also eliminated.
This is not over, Fan Zhendong, the men's singles champion of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, was also eliminated. After the four world champions mentioned above have been upset in a row. The world's No. 1 "big head" Wang Chuqin continued his hot form this season in the men's singles 1/16 finals.
Wang Chuqin swept his opponent 3-0 against Romania's Ovidou Ionescu, 11-5, 11-3, 11-6 in three games. In the semifinals, Wang Chuqin faced his teammate Lin Shidong, who also performed well, and he narrowly won 4-3 to advance to the final. In the championship match, against the German star Francesca, he won 4-2 to win the championship.