On July 31, Beijing time, the top 16 of the men's singles table tennis at the Paris Olympics were all born. Japan both passed the level, Zhang Benzhi and narrowly won the victory kneeling and waving his fist in celebration, and Lin Yunru, the Lebrun brothers, Hugo and other famous generals also passed smoothly, some people are happy and some are worried, please see below for the detailed battle situation.
Upper half
The top seed with the highest ranking in the top half of the men's singles is national table tennis player Wang Chuqin, who was in average form in the first round, and was a little bit wrong when facing Wang Yang, a Slovakia chipper whose results were far inferior to him, and won 4 games in a row to achieve a reversal after falling behind 0-1, and then his main racket was broken after winning the mixed doubles championship, and he had no choice but to change the spare racket, and then met Moregard, the men's singles runner-up at the World Table Tennis Championships in Sweden.
may have been affected by the change of racket, Wang Chuqin began to make mistakes soon after he came up in this game, and many of the balls that had the opportunity to score in the past failed to win, and soon lost 10-12, 7-11 and lost two games in a row, and then won 11-5, 11-7 to tie, but then collapsed with 9-11 and 6-11, and was eliminated with a big score of 2-4, becoming the first athlete to lose in national table tennis.
Moregard's next opponent will be Chinese Taipei's Gao Chengrui, who eliminated Romania's Ionescu 4-1 to advance. Also knocked out in the quarter-finals was Germany's Qiu Dang, who was beaten 4-3 by Kazakhstan's Grasmenko, who will next face Egypt's Asal (4-0 win over Ecuador's Minow).
The competition in the men's singles 2/4 zone is also very fierce, Brazil's Hugo and Japan's national champion Hayasuke Togami both won 4-2, eliminating Spain's Robles and Slovenia's Kozur respectively, Korea's Jang Woo-jin 4-1 against Denmark's Grote and facing Hayasuke Togami, and only France's Alex · Lebrun beat Croatia's Puka 4-0 and will face Hugo next.
Lower half
The athlete in the lower half of the national table tennis is the last runner-up Fan Zhendong, who won the first round relatively easily, swept Ukraine's Zamudenko 4-0, and then competed with the powerful Hong Kong star Huang Zhenting, as a result, Fan Zhendong won 4-1 (11-5, 11-5, 9-11, 11-6, 11-3) and continued to carry the banner of national table tennis men's singles alone.
Fan Zhendong's next opponent will be United States star Kanak, who had previously been banned for up to a year and only recently returned to the competition, but not only qualified for the Olympics, but also won three consecutive matches from the preliminary round to advance, knocking out Greece's chipping star Gionis 4-2 in the round of 16, and will next challenge the main team of national tennis.
Japan's Tomokazu Harimoto encountered a major danger, facing Iran's dark horse Alamyan (who won the main national table tennis team Wang Liqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun) who has been upset many times in international competitions before winning in 6 games, and he was also excited after the win, kneeling and waving his fists in celebration, and he will next face Denmark's Linde (4-3 narrowly defeated Poland's Redzimski).
Chinese Taipei's Lin Yunru swept Croatia's Garcini 4-0 before facing Slovenia's three-time European Championship winner Darko (4-2 win over United Kingdom's Pitchford); France's Felix · Lebrun eliminated Sweden's Carlberg 4-2 and Germany's world champion Ocharov defeated Brazil's Aich 4-1.