Malone said at the press conference after the game: “This is very characteristic for cross-association groups, and reaching the final shows that they are in good condition, and we have made the most difficult preparations before the game.”
On April 27, Malong (left)/Wang Chuqin was at the award ceremony. On that day, in the men’s doubles final of the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships held in Budapest, Hungary, the Chinese player Malone/Wang Chuqin defeated the multinational group Jonescu (Romania)/Luo bouleuse (Spain) 4-1, won the championship. Xinhua News Agency reporter Luo Yang shot
Xinhua News Agency, Budapest, April 27 (Reporter Zhang Zhang Su Bin) in the man pair final of the World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest on the 27th, the Chinese team Ma Long/Wang Chuqin 4:1 win the second gold medal in the World Table Tennis Championships for the Chinese team in the cross-Association combination of Romanian player josescu and Spanish player Luo bouleuse.
In This World Table Tennis Championships, except for the quarter-finals, the combination of grand slam winner Ma Long and “after 00” Wang Chuqin hardly encountered too much trouble, and the semi-finals were also 4:0 easily beat another pair of Chinese combinations Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan. Both Jonescu and Luo bouleuse ranked low in singles, but their doubles combination has certain strength. They once defeated Malong/Xu Xin in the China Open last year.
At the beginning of the game that day, the Chinese team played smoothly, and the first game won by 11:3 almost without any resistance. In the second game, Jonescu and Luo bouleuse, who were on the final stage of the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time, gradually found the state. After the start of 2:0, they fought with the Chinese team all the way, and the two sides took the lead alternately until the 8th level, romania and Spain won three points in a row, equalizing the big score.
In the third game, Ma Long/Wang Chuqin started well, but after the score was pulled to 7:3, he was chased to 7:6 by his opponent. The Chinese combination requested to suspend it, after the suspension came back, he got three points to get the game point, and finally won at 11:7. In the fourth game, the Chinese team took the lead all the way. At 5:2, the other party requested to suspend, but it did not change the unfavorable situation. Malong/Wang Chuqin quickly won by 11:3. The fifth game was exactly the same as the fourth game. Ma Long/Wang Chuqin won the 11:5 battle and won another gold medal for the Chinese team.
Malone said at the press conference after the game: “This is very characteristic for cross-association groups, and reaching the final shows that they are in good condition, we made the most difficult preparations before the game.”
This is the second time that Ma Long won the World Table Tennis Championship man pair after winning the championship with Xu Xin in the Rotterdam World Table Tennis Championships in 2011. He said that he did not expect that the combination of him and Wang Chuqin could win the championship before the match, but they gradually found the state through the match, and their trust became stronger and stronger, and they were very happy to win the championship in the end.
18-year-old general Wang Chuqin said, “I have learned a lot from the ‘Dragon Team’, and as an old player, his fighting spirit infected me, sending positive energy to me is very helpful to me. Technically, working with him makes me feel at ease, because I know that even if the quality of a certain cricket is not high, he can help me make up for it.”
Spanish player Luo bouleuse said that there were really not many opportunities to compete with the Chinese team, and they had been controlling the rhythm of the game from beginning to end. He said: “Winning the runner-up of the World Table Tennis Championships has created the history of Spanish table tennis. Congratulations to Malone/Wang Chuqin for winning the championship.”