The final at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston at the World Table Tennis Championships was written with four beautiful finals, which reserved thrills and new names on the list of world champions.
In the men’s singles, 25-year-old Chinese Fan Zhedong, who was also the first favorite of the games, reached the top of the world. In the final with the amazing young Swede Trouls Meregard, he prevailed with a 4-0 set.
23-year-old Chinese Wang Manyu won the gold medal in the women’s singles. In the final, she defeated her compatriot, Sun Yingsa, with 4-2 sets, with whom they had previously won the trophy in the women’s doubles.
In another country the gold medal went only to the men’s doubles, where the surprise was completed by the Swedes Matthias Falk / Christian Carlson. They climbed to the top step of the podium and gave Europe its first world title in 18.5 years.
The men’s singles final attracted a lot of interest from all the friends of the sport. The 19-year-old Meregard did this, firstly because he went ahead unexpectedly with six difficult victories, even though he was ranked 77th in the world and out of the 32 seeded athletes of the competition, and secondly because he would now count his boy with the top representative of China, Van Zedong. In the decisive match, however, the number 1 of the games performed exceptionally and added the world title to his rich collection.
At the age of 25 and after the lost final of 2017, Van Zedong got what he absolutely deserved with his progress and became the 12th Chinese to lift the weighty trophy in the simple. Overall, it was the 21st gold in the race for China.
Worth admiring, of course, and Meregard with his amazing course. His future is bright. After Matthias Falk in 2019, Sweden were lucky to have a representative again in the final of the singles, Meregard was the seventh in the history of the country and followed in the footsteps of his coach, Stellan Bengtson, who had celebrated the 1971 world title in Japan. . The third place was taken by the German Timo Bol and the Chinese Liang Jikun.
The women’s simple was a Chinese affair from beginning to end, as, in fact, all four medals went to the country. Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsa were a new couple in the final of the match. They gave a great “show” in front of thousands of fans, gave suspense and spectacle. Wang lost the first set in overtime and recorded the final 4-2, prevailing in the sixth set in overtime (11-13, 11-7, 6-11, 11-6, 11-8, 17-15).
Wang became the 16th world champion of ordinary women from China, while the country generally celebrated its 24th first place in the competition.
Another very characteristic element of her στε dynasty is that from 1995 until today the finalists in the women’s singles final are always from China! Third place went to Chen Meng and Wang Ying.
In the men’s doubles, Matthias Falk and Christian Carlson completed the triumph and Europe celebrated a gold medal again for the first time since May 2003 in Paris. Defeating in the final, the Koreans Lim Yong Hoon / Yang Wujin with 3-1 sets climbed to the highest step of the podium. In the fourth set, they lost 8-10 and turned it around with four points in a row to reach a real achievement (11-8, 15-13, 11-13, 12-10).
Falk and Carlson gave Sweden its sixth world title in the men’s doubles. They brought a gold medal to the country for the first time in 24 years and the first of Jan-Ove Waldner in the singles and a trophy in the doubles after thirty years.
Lim and Yang had great success, regardless of the defeat in the final, in fact the silver medal is the best place for Korea in the race after eight bronze medals. The bronze medal in Houston was won by the Chinese Lin Gaoyuan / Liang Jikun and the Japanese by Sunshuke Togami / Yukiya Uda.
In the women’s doubles, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsa were finally crowned world champions for the second time in a row. In the final, in fact, they defeated the Japanese Mima Ito and China Hayata again, as they had done in Budapest in 2019! The Chinese prevailed in the three sets with 11-9, 11-7 and 11-8 and continued a huge tradition.
The bronze medal was also won by the Chinese Chen Meng / Qian Tiang and the Luxembourg Sara De Nute / Ni Xia Lian.
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