Yesterday, the Men's Table Tennis World Cup has entered a critical moment. During the knockout period, the remaining 16 players will compete for the remaining 8 places. The Men's Table Tennis World Cup is very important to both Ma Long and Fan Zhendong. Ma Long will hit his 25th World Cup champion in this competition, and Fan Zhendong will hit the first three consecutive championships in the history of men's table tennis. Now the two are not in the same competition area. If all goes well, the two sides will face off in the finals. In this case, men's table tennis in this World Cup will take the championship and runner-up.
Ma Long, as a resident guest of the World Cup, also received an official invitation in this Men's Table Tennis World Cup. However, this year's World Cup, Malone's injury has been greatly relieved, and his knee injury has also improved. As a result, Malone has a greater chance of winning in this World Cup. Although Malone’s physical fitness is not as good as before because of his age, he not only won the World Cup championship in 2012 and 2015, but also won the World Table Tennis Championships in 2017 and 2019. This shows that Malone’s condition is still very good. Have the strength to win the championship.
, as the first appearance of this World Cup, Malone’s first opponent, Dako, is very strong. He passed through the qualifying round and entered the knockout round. Both his physical condition and the performance on the court are very good, so everyone is very worried about Malone’s first match. Lost, but Malone's performance was as stable as ever. Although Dakko could still entangle with Malone to a 5 tie at the start, Malone soon left Dakko behind and finally won the first game 11-7.
However, after the start of the second game, Dakko started a counterattack. Although the game was very stale and Malone's offense was also very intensive, Dakko eventually won the second game 14-12. After the start of the third game, you can see that Malone adjusted his offensive strategy, and finally Malone won 11-9. In the fourth game, Malone started very strongly. He directly played 7-1. Seeing that the victory was in sight, Daktronics started a counterattack and directly caught up to 9 draws. In the end Dakko won the fourth game 13-11. , And now the two sides drew 2-2.
In the fifth game, there was no simple and effective way for Malone to play against Dakko. The two sides were always the same, and the score remained stalemate until it was tied to 11, but Malone seized the opportunity at the end and scored 2 points. In the end, he won the game 13-11. In the last game, Malone performed more securely and directly scored 9-1. In the end, Malone won the game with a score of 4-2 in six games and directly advanced to the quarterfinals!
