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Top Chinese paddlers advance at WTT Champions Macao

MACAO, April 18 (Xinhua) — China’s star paddlers Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, Wang Manyu and Chen Meng received the spherical of 32 matches for males’s and ladies’s singles on the World Table Tennis (WTT) Champions Macao 2023 on Tuesday, the second day of the weeklong event.

In the lads’s singles, Ma Long defeated Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna 3-1 (11-8, 11-6, Sep 11, 11-8), however the a number of Olympic champion needed to struggle neck and neck within the third and fourth video games.

“It was a difficult match. His strength, performance and quality of attacks all put much pressure on me. Besides forehand balls, he also played backhand balls very well today,” Ma mentioned.

Second seed Wang Chuqin noticed off Andrej Gacina of Croatia 3-0 (11-5, 15-13, 11-4) regardless of having to battle by the second sport.

Third seed Tomokazu Harimoto of Japan got here out on high in a curler coaster five-game thriller in opposition to China’s 18-year-old Lin Shidong Sep 11, 11-1, 15-13, Sep 11, 11-5.

Sweden’s Anton Kallberg and Mattias Falck, Dimitrij Ovtcharov of Germany, and Lin Yun-Ju of Chinese Taipei additionally secured their tickets to the lads’s singles spherical of 16.

In the ladies’s singles, Romania’s Bernadette Szocs made the headlines once more with a surprising 3-1 (6-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-3) win over seventh seed Chen Xingtong of China, including one other Chinese star to her checklist of upsets after her astonishing 3-2 win over Chen Meng at WTT Champions Macao 2022.

World No. 2 Wang Manyu began her chase for a second WTT Champions title with a straight video games win over World No. 12 Sofia Polcanova of Austria 11-7, 11-8, 11-5.

“We have faced each other several times before, so we are quite familiar. Since she is tall, I had made full preparations for her attack pace and the ball curves,” Wang mentioned.

Olympic champion Chen Meng defeated her long-standing rival Doo Hoi Kem of Hong Kong, China, 11-7, 11-4, 13-11.

China’s Qian Tianyi, Yuan Jianan of France and South Korea’s Shin Yubin additionally made their approach into the ladies’s singles spherical of 16.

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