(Tokyo Olympics) National Ping Pong "Start Over", Men's and Women's Singles Four Will Pass All

  China News Agency, Tokyo, July 27. After the accidental loss of gold in the mixed doubles, the Chinese table tennis team "started from scratch" on the 27th.

On the same day, the four players Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, who played in the men's and women's singles, all passed.

  Chinese men's table tennis captain and Grand Slam player Ma Long ushered in the "one-day double match". After defeating Indian player Achangta 4:1, he faced French star Simon Gautz in the evening.

Although his opponents used fighting tactics in this campaign, Malone relied on his rich experience and demonstrated the overall ability of offensive and defensive integration, defeating his opponent 4:1 to advance to the men's singles quarterfinals.

He will face Egypt's Assal in the quarterfinals.

  After the men's singles top seed, Chinese player Fan Zhendong swept France's Le Besson 4-0, he then faced Portugal's Freitas in the eighth-finals.

With his strength advantage, Fan Zhendong defeated his opponent 4:1 and advanced to the men's singles quarterfinals.

He will face South Korean star Jeong Young-sik in the quarter-finals.

  As the strongest opponent of Chinese men's table tennis, Japanese player Zhang Benzhihe lost to the Slovenian "dark horse" Yordzic with a 3:4 score and stopped in the round of 16 and exposed the biggest upset since the start of the game.

On the same day, another Japanese player Niwa Takaki lost to the German star Ocharov 1:4. So far, all the Japanese men's singles players have been eliminated.

  Malone said after the game that after two games of training, he has gradually adapted to the rhythm of the Tokyo Olympics.

For the next schedule, he hopes to better mobilize his state and prepare each opponent before the game.

  Fan Zhendong said that the game process was not as easy as the score, but fortunately, after timely adjustments, he gradually found the best condition. He hopes to continue the current momentum.

  In the women's singles field, China's top women's singles player Chen Meng defeated Canadian player Zhang Mo 4:1 to advance to the women's singles quarterfinals.

In the quarter-finals, she will face Hong Kong star Du Kaixuan, who defeated Dutch player Illland 4:1.

  Another Chinese player, Sun Yingsha, swept Chinese Taipei player Chen Siyu 4-0.

She will face German veteran Han Ying in the quarter-finals, who defeated Singapore veteran Feng Tianwei 4:1.

  In other games, Mima Ito, who just helped the Japanese team win the first Olympic table tennis gold medal, defeated Thai player Savi Tabut 4: 0, while South Korean star Tian Zhixi defeated Austrian veteran Liu Jia 4:1.

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