Beijing time on January 20, 2022 news, WTT Macau Championship continued, the evening a number of focus battles began, after Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin defeated Xu Yingbin and Liu Weishan 3-1 to reach the quarterfinals, the men's and women's singles 1/8 finals continued, Sun Yingsha won 13-11, 11-4 and 11-6, a big score 3-0 victory over Hebei team compatriot He Zhuojia to reach the top 8, and then the men's singles 1/8 final, Ma Long and Liang Jingkun began to fight.
Since Malone announced his withdrawal from the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, it feels like he has not seen a Malone game for a long time, although there is no shortage of champions in the national table tennis super grand slam, he is still very eager for the championship, the first WTT event men's singles champion is Malone, this time, Malone must also start towards the men's singles. Of course, Liang Jingkun has the title of national table tennis sweeping monk, what does it mean? It is Liang Jingkun who is strong when he meets strong! Malone also had to be careful.
In the first game, Liang Jingkun and Ma Long directly entered the multi-board stalemate, the two sides won and lost each other, and finally chose to fight for the quality of the first three boards, Ma Long slightly won, after 3-3 draw, Liang Jingkun made consecutive mistakes, and Ma Long scored 4 consecutive points to take the lead. Liang Jingkun once looked embarrassed, and finally chased points in a short fight. Although Malone was ahead in the middle of the game, in the back innings, Liang Jingkun chased the score to 9 draws consecutively, and Malone took the set point and served to grab the attack, 11-9 first.
In the second set of the game, Ma Long took a 3-1 lead, calculated Liang Jingkun's return line, all he could do was to continue to form a stalemate with Ma Long, otherwise it was easy to be controlled by Ma Long, and the most important thing was to reduce his own unnecessary mistakes! Malone extended his lead to a 7-1 lead, but a chance ball was missed, and Liang Jingkun began to chase points.
Liang Jingkun chased the score to 5-7, Malone thought for a long time and decided to preemptively change the line sideways for the forehand, but did not interrupt Liang Jingkun's momentum of chasing points, and it was 9-10, And Malone called a timeout to arrange the serve. Back in the game, Liang Jingkun attacked from Malone's forehand and scored to 10 draws. Ma Longyi is bold, and in the case of 10 flats, he also chose to steal the long! 13-11, after losing 2 set points, Malone still played back, leading 2-0 on aggregate. When there is a senseless mistake, look at Liang Jingkun's helpless expression.
In the third game, the big score was behind, Liang Jingkun could only let go of a fight, and Ma Long opened a big fight! But the more anxious the mentality, the easier it is to fall into the rhythm of Malone, who started 5-0 to take the lead, and the point difference is further widening. Liang Jingkun didn't seem to have any good way to do it, and eventually collapsed! Malone ended the match 11-6, beating Liang Jingkun 3-0 to reach the quarter-finals. It seems that Liang Jingkun's tactics of using new hair and hair extensions did not work!