(Tokyo Olympics) Chinese men's table tennis won the Olympic men's team gold medal for four consecutive championships
China News Service, Tokyo, August 6 (Reporter Yue Chuan) As the "final" event of the Tokyo Olympics table tennis competition, the men's team finals ended on the evening of the 6th at the Yoyogi Stadium in Tokyo.
Facing the German men's team that defeated the host Japanese team, the Chinese men's table tennis team defeated the opponent 3-0 to win the championship, achieving four consecutive championships in the event.
After sweeping the South Korean team in the semifinals, the Chinese team met their old rivals Germany in the finals.
The latter upset the Japanese men's team, the host with Mizutani Hayabusa and Zhang Bentomo, in the semifinals 3:2.
In the first doubles duel, Malone/Xu Xin played against German star Boll/Francisca. The tacit Chinese combination hardly gave the opponent too many scoring opportunities. The match also showed a one-sided situation. The two quickly went 11:7,11: 3. 11:9 winning three games in a row and scored the first point for the Chinese team.
In the second game, the first singles of the two teams of China and Germany, Fan Zhendong and Ocharov, started a duel.
Ocharov, who did not have too much psychological burden, entered the state very quickly. He gave full play to the advantages of COSCO Taiwan's strong stalemate ability and created a lot of threats to Fan Zhendong.
Fortunately, Fan Zhendong stabilized his position after falling behind twice, and took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's increased turnover in receiving and serving in the decisive game. Through serving changes and fierce forehand attacks, he successfully reversed 3:2 and expanded the lead for the Chinese team. .
In the third game, Grand Slam player Malone played against German veteran Boll. Malone had the upper hand with 16 wins and 4 losses in the previous 20 matches.
In this campaign, he will fight his 40-year-old opponent again. Malone has continued his previous good condition. Except for a slight setback in the third game, losing three consecutive match points and losing one game, he basically controlled the game situation for the rest of the time. The 3:1 victory over Boll, the total score of the Chinese team was 3:0 to seal the victory.
After the game, Xu Xin said that today the team truly achieved the pre-match deployment of "reducing the burden and loading lightly".
Fan Zhendong said that Ocharov's desire to fight made him somewhat unexpected, and also caused him a lot of trouble in the game.
But when he fell behind, his willpower became stronger, believing that he could win.
Malone, who scored two points for the Chinese team, said that the moment of winning the championship was indeed a bit excited, but it quickly settled down.
In his opinion, the two gold medals in the Tokyo Olympics are "just a life experience, but by no means all."
He said that he hopes that he can steadily complete the next professional career.
In the three or four finals that ended earlier, the Japanese team defeated the South Korean team 3-1 and won the third place in the men's table tennis team at the Olympic Games.
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