On February 24th, 2023, Beijing time, the first table tennis straight race ended successfully. Sun Yingsha and Malone won the women's singles championship and the men's singles championship respectively, and directly advanced to the Durban World Table Tennis Championships. The 34-year-old Malone beat Fan Zhendong 3-0, still showing a good competitive state as a veteran. Malone has been working full-time from the group stage to the second stage of the championship battle. All the group matches were won, and Yuan Lizeng was reversed in the case of falling behind 0-2. Malone's control ability is still very strong.
In the second stage, Malone continued to be strong, beating Liang Jingkun and Fan Zhendong in succession to be crowned the men's singles champion, and once again got the opportunity to participate in the individual World Table Tennis Championships. In the face of Fan Zhendong in his prime, Malone won 3-0. This score is really unexpected. After the game, head coach Li Sun and head coach Wang Hao revealed some details behind Malone's winning the championship, which was even more surprising and admirable.
Malone's Early Experience
Ma Long, 1988 10, 10 was born in Anshan City, Liaoning Province on October 20th. 1993 Malone's father began to learn to play table tennis at the age of five because table tennis not only can "exercise" but also "is not easy to get hurt". 65438-0999 Malone entered Liaoning Sports School and studied under the 34th World Table Tennis Championship champion Wang Jun.
Malone, 200 1, 13 years old, once faced the situation of being eliminated by the provincial team. However, when the coach of Beijing Xicheng Sports School went to Liaoning to choose seedlings, the coach Guan Huaan took a fancy to Malone and took him from Liaoning to Beijing to continue studying table tennis.