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China topped in males's group for tenth straight time at desk tennis worlds

CHENGDU, China, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) — China made brief work of their German counterparts 3-0 within the males’s remaining right here on Sunday on the World Team Table Tennis Championships and lifted the Swaythling Cup for the tenth time in a row and a report 22 occasions total.

The final group having stopped China in a males’s group remaining at worlds was Sweden in 2000.

Sunday’s remaining was a repeat of the 2018 model and marked the sixth time that China and Germany met on the planet title contest, with China prevailing on every event.

Jorg Rosskopf’s squad didn’t triumph once more, as Olympic gold medalist Ma Long, who turns 34 years previous in 11 days, got here out the one Chinese having dropped a set, seeing off Germany’s prime paddler and newly-crowned European champion Qiu Dang 11-9, 11-6, Sep 11, 11-1.

Reigning world champion and world No. 1 Fan Zhendong opened the best-of-five video games remaining with a straight-set victory over Benedikt Duda, 11-8, 11-8, 11-9. Wang Chuqin, 22, got here up within the third sport and beat Kay Stumper 11-7, 11-8, 11-4 to wrap up the match.

On Saturday, the Chinese ladies’s group claimed its fifth straight world title after sweeping Japan 3-0. It was additionally a record-extending twenty second time for China to have lifted the Corbillon Cup in historical past.

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