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WTT Championship: Ma Long beats Zhuang Zhiyuan and Wang Yidi reverses Polkanova
Xinhua News Agency, Frankfurt, October 31 (Reporter Liu Yang) October 31 was the last match day of the first round of the 2023 World Table Tennis League (WTT) Frankfurt Championship. Olympic champion Ma Long defeated Chinese Taipei veteran Zhuang Zhiyuan 3:1; Wang Yidi After losing one game first, she won three consecutive games and defeated Austrian player Polkanova.
“Super Grand Slam” winner Ma Long, currently ranked third in the world, and 42-year-old veteran Zhuang Zhiyuan have not played against each other for 7 years. Malone successfully won the first two games of this game 11:4 and 11:4. In the third game, he received a yellow card when he was behind 7:9. The referee believed that he was delaying time, and Malone lost 8:11. Zhuang Zhiyuan led 3:0 at the beginning of the fourth game, and Malone then scored 5 points in a row. The two fought from 6 draws to 11 draws. In the end, Malone sealed the victory with 13:11, eliminating his opponent with a total score of 3:1 and advancing to the top 16.
Malone said after the game: “Although Zhuang Zhiyuan is a veteran, he has maintained a good condition on the court. He has been like this for many years and has a strong desire to win. I played relatively smoothly in the first two games today, but I made a mistake after the middle of the third game. The number of shots increased, and some balls that could form the initiative were not hit, which made the scene a little uncomfortable. The score in the fourth game was always entangled, and I am glad that I finally grasped the match point.”
“The yellow card in the third game had some impact on me. The referee has been urging both of us since the first game. I think the overall rhythm today is quite fast. I didn’t delay on purpose, but the referee thought I delayed. This is the game.” Malone explain.
In the encounter between Wang Yidi and the 2022 European Table Tennis Championships women’s singles and women’s doubles double champion Polkanova, the first game did not go smoothly. She fell behind by 5 points at most, and finally lost the first game at 8:11. Then Wang Yidi won three games in a row and eliminated his opponent. In the third game, his opponent only scored 3 points.
Wang Yidi’s opponent in the next round is Indian player Batra. When the two met at the Hangzhou Asian Games not long ago, Wang Yidi won 4:2, which was not an easy process.
The top 16 will be played on November 1st. In the men’s singles, Liang Jingkun faced South Korea’s Lim Jong-hun, Fan Zhendong faced South Korea’s Lee Sang-soo, and Wang Chuqin faced England’s Pitchford. In the women’s singles, Chen Meng will face this year’s European Games women’s singles champion, Romanian star Szokos, and Sun Yingsha will play against the 19-year-old Indian-French star Pavard for the first time.
2023-11-01 07:25:00
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