On March 20, Beijing time, the WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament will enter the last matchday of competition, the remaining two final matches, is the final battle of men's and women's singles, and both matches are national table tennis civil war, the women's singles is Chen Meng against Wang Manyu, and the men's singles is Fan Zhendong against Ma Long. The final singles champion of this tournament can get 2000 points, the runner-up is 1400 points, the prize money is also different, I believe that every player will do their best. The event will still be broadcast live by CCTV Sports.
Specific to the match, the women's singles side, Chen Meng against Wang Manyu can be said to have suffered the first nemesis, the two sides have met for 3 consecutive times in the past, Chen Meng has lost, including a sweep, at the National Games, Wang Manyu won the Women's Singles Championship of the National Games by defeating Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha successively.
At the World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Manyu defeated Chen Meng again in the semi-finals and finally won the women's singles championship. In this Singapore Grand Slam tournament, Wang Manyu defeated Sun Yingsha 4-3 in the semi-final to reach the final, and his personal state remained very good and the momentum was strong, for this reason, Chen Meng's final with Wang Manyu this time will still be very difficult, and it is not difficult to win.
On the men's singles final side, as the captain of the team, Ma Long once again played against Fan Zhendong, which is the highest level of competition in the active world table tennis singles, one is the absolute strongest person in the history of the first person in the state is still at the peak, and the other is the active world ranking No. 1, the player who has won the world championship for many consecutive times, the showdown between Ma Long and Fan Zhendong is destined to usher in a lot of attention.
In the past three encounters between the two sides, Fan Zhendong won 2 victories, among them, Fan Zhendong defeated Ma Long in the final of the National Games men's team to directly help Guangdong team win the championship, playing in the national table tennis team selection competition before the World Table Tennis Championships, Fan Zhendong defeated Ma Long again, relying on this victory Xiao Fat confidence increased greatly, and won the championship in the men's singles and World Cup finals of the World Table Tennis Championships, further laying the status of the first men's singles in active service.
Therefore, this time Ma Long against Fan Zhendong can be said to be seeking "revenge war". On the personal strength alone, Ma Long and Fan Zhendong have the possibility of who wins and who loses, and are in a five-to-five situation. Only from the perspective of the development of national table tennis, as a junior Fan Zhendong must strive to win in every game against Ma Long, which is a complete inheritance of the national table tennis men's singles, the era that belongs to Ma Long will eventually pass, and Xiao Fat will one day need to really take over the banner of the national table tennis men's team.
It is worth mentioning that the last time Ma Long and Fan Zhendong met in a key event of the international competition, it was still the end of Ma Long's victory, and in the men's singles final of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, Ma Long defeated Fan Zhendong to win the men's singles championship, becoming the first and only player in the history of the Olympic Games to win the men's singles championship consecutively. Who can overthrow Malone's dominance? Fan Zhendong is trying to be the answer to this!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)