CHENGDU, China, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) — China superior as group winners into each the boys’s and ladies’s spherical of 16 because the group stage entered the ultimate stretch on the 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships right here on Tuesday.
The Chinese males’s crew, vying for his or her tenth consecutive world title in Chengdu, ran out snug winners over Thailand 3-0, even though China had assured to go high regardless of the results of their final Group 1 match.
World No. 1 male paddler Fan Zhendong beat Sarayut Tangcharoen in straight units, 11-9, 11-8, 11-6. His teammates Lin Gaoyuan and Liang Jingkun each claimed 3-1 victories in opposition to Phakpoom Sanguansin and Pattaratorn Passara respectively.
“My opponent played an excellent game, and it’s not as easy as the scoreboard might have suggested,” Fan stated.
According to a draw made afterward Tuesday, China will take India within the spherical of 16 after the latter misplaced its final Group 2 match 3-0 to France and superior as among the best third-placed groups.
“There are more challenges and tougher rivals waiting ahead, and my teammate and I will make fully detailed preparations for every possibility,” added the 25-year-old high paddler.
Their girls’s counterparts additionally prevailed within the final spherical of group matches, taking straightforward work of Malaysia 3-0 to high Group 1 and having been drawn to play Group 2’s third-placed Hungary of their first knockout showpiece.
Reigning Olympic runners-up Japan, bronze medalists Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Germany and Chinese Taipei, in addition to the match’s opening-day headliner Ni Xialian and her Luxembourg crew, all made it to the ladies’s crew final 16.
Also on Tuesday, fifth-ranked Hugo Calderano proved himself one of many scorching favorites in males’s main gamers, beating Slovakia’s defensive ace Wang Yang 3-0 and main Brazil to triumph 3-0 in a winner-takes-it-all match.
Brazil adopted group leaders Portugal’s tempo to advance and can face Group 3 winners Japan within the battles for a males’s crew quarterfinal spot.
In different males’s final 16 encounters, South Korea will play in opposition to Poland, France meets England, Germany faces Croatia and Hong Kong, China takes Egypt.