The 2020 Men's Table Tennis World Cup enters its second match day. Fan Zhendong, the defending champion and national table tennis player, encountered Chinese Taipei veteran and world champion Zhuang Zhiyuan in the first show of this World Cup. Fan Zhendong defeated 4-0 in four straight games. Zhuang Zhiyuan entered the quarterfinals. Japan's Zhang Bentomo also won four consecutive games and won the first game to enter the quarterfinals.
23-year-old Fan Zhendong ranked first in the world and won the World Cup three times in 2016, 2018, and 2019; Zhuang Zhiyuan is 39 years old and currently ranked 30th in the world, and won the men's doubles championship in the World Table Tennis Championships. In the group stage, Zhuang Zhiyuan scored one win and one loss to enter the top 16 in the group second. In the first game, Fan Zhendong established a 6-1 lead and won the first game 11-5. In the second game, Fan Zhendong started with 3-1. Zhuang Zhiyuan was behind 2-4 and took a 5-4 lead. After that, the score between the two sides remained stalemate to 9 and Fan Zhendong scored 11-9 with a serve. Win another round.
Fan Zhendong led the opening 5-2 in the third game, and Zhuang Zhiyuan caught up to 6 points, but Fan Zhendong still won the third game 11-8, leading 3-0. In the fourth game, Zhuang Zhiyuan started with a 3-1 lead. When Fan Zhendong chased the score to 4-5, Zhuang Zhiyuan called for a timeout. After the timeout, Fan Zhendong scored three points in a row, took the lead 7-5, got the match point 10-6, won the fourth game 11-6, beat Zhuang Zhiyuan 4-0 with a big score, and entered the top 8.
Another national table tennis player, Ma Long, was challenged by 22-year-old Slovenian Jochik in the previous 1/8 finals. After 6 hard games, Ma Long won 11-7, 12-14, 11. -9, 11-13, 13-11, 11-3, a big score 4-2 victory over Jochik to enter the top 8. After the game, Ma Long also came to the stands for the first time, sitting next to Liu Guoliang of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, listening to Liu Guoliang to help him analyze the gains and losses in the game. In tonight's quarter-finals, Malone will play against German star Ochalov. Ochalov beat England's Pitchford in seven games to enter the quarterfinals.
in the 3/4 zone competition, last year's runner-up, Japan's Zhang Benzhi and won four consecutive games, 11-3, 11-7, 12-10, 11-8, defeating Austrian veteran Gardos to enter the quarterfinals. Zhang Benzhi and his opponent in the quarter-finals are the men's singles runner-up of Sweden's M Falk in the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships. The latter won by 2 points in the deciding game after seven games, 8-11, 11-7, 14-12. , 10-12, 11-6, 11-13, 17-15, a big score 4-3 thrilling victory over Huang Zhenting of Hong Kong, China to advance.
