WTT Macau Championship was the first to generate the first singles semi-final ticket. The No. 7 seed of Taipei, Chinese, , Lin Yunru, , reversed France's Alex Lebron 3-2 (8-11/11-9/4-11/12-10/11-8), narrowly defeated the three European masters through the decisive game for the third consecutive game, and stood out from the 2/4 zone. Although he did not participate in the World Table Tennis Team Championship in Chengdu, Lin Yunru still showed the style of the top four in the Tokyo Olympics. As a strong enemy of the national table tennis team in recent years, his threat is no less than that of , Bentoshi, and .
21-year-old Lin Yunju is a talented player who emerged from the Chinese Taipei men's team during the Tokyo Olympic cycle. His appearance immediately added the gold point of the Chinese Taipei men's team to win the gold medal in the 2019 World Cup. He won the third place in the men's singles at the Tokyo Olympics. He joined hands with Zheng Yijing and to win the bronze medal and reached the semi-finals in the men's singles competition. He lost the decisive game against Fan Zhendong and , and then lost to Germany's Ocharov. Lin Yunru hired Olympic champion Wei Qingguang as his coach this year, but did not participate in the World Table Tennis Championships in Chengdu and came directly to Macau to participate in the championship. In the first round, Lin Yunru defeated the German veteran world champion Boer , who was twice as old as him 3-2, and then defeated Croatian giant Pukar 3-2 in the second round and broke into the men's singles quarterfinals.
France's Alex Le Brun is 2 years younger than Lin Yunru and is less than 19 years old this year. However, he is already the hottest star in the European table tennis world this year and one of the candidates for the European table tennis world to challenge the Chinese table tennis world in the future. Alex also has a younger brother, Felix. The two play completely differently. The older brother has a horizontal board and the younger brother has a straight board. The two helped France reach the semi-finals not long ago, but lost to the German team 2-3 in the quarter-finals and almost hit the podium. Both Lebron brothers wear glasses and look gentle and elegant, but the court style is tough, and the pull-up circles of the Zhongyuan Platform are of high quality and powerful strength. In the first two rounds, Alex defeated two Asian opponents from South Korea's Zhang Yuzhen and Liang Jingkun from China.
In the first game, Alex's ball had the upper hand in power. Lin Yunru was thin and used to leveraging the power to hit the ball. The power of the pull was originally his weakness. With Lin Yunru's serve miss, Alex took the lead 11-8. In the second game, Lin Yunju began to mobilize his opponents through the landing point and the pace, and quickly gained a 5-1 advantage. Alex's mid-range and long-distance team tied 8-8, but Lin Yunju scored 2 points in a row to win the game point and tied 11-9. In the third game, Lin Yunju was completely suppressed by Alex's violent attack and scored only 4 points to lose. Lin Yunru, who fought back in the fourth game, started with 7-1. Alex beat Lin Yunru a high ball that he could not catch for a long time in the middle and long stage. Then he started to chase to 8-8. Lin Yunru successfully scored the game point again, but Alex saved the game and chased it to 10-10, but Lin Yunru was unmoved and equalized 12-10. In the decisive game, Lin Yunju replaced the side 5-3, but Alex overtook 6-5. As Alex made more mistakes at the end of the game, Lin Yunju won the battle 11-8 and advanced to the semi-finals.
2 20-year-old young players have become the strong rivals of the Chinese table tennis team in the future, especially Alex. European players have a very long sports lifespan. He may continue to play in the next 15 years. There are too few players of the same age in the Chinese table tennis team. At present, the men's table tennis team still relies on veterans Ma Long and Fan Zhendong to support the overall situation.
