In the men's Table Tennis World Cup held on the afternoon of December 1, fan Zhendong reversed his victory over Zhang benzhihe 4:2 and won the championship for the third time. At the award ceremony, Liu Guoliang, chairman of China Table Tennis Association, kindly patted fan Zhendong on the cheek and praised him: 'it's great! I hope it will be the same next year! "
In the 2019 Chengdu men's Table Tennis World Cup final, which ended on the 1st, fan Zhendong beat Japan's Zhang benzhihe 4-2 to win the world cup for the third time. Fan Zhendong said that he felt different from the previous two times.
"I'm glad that the chairman has such expectations and expectations for me." Fan Zhendong said, "only by focusing on the present can we get better results." I certainly hope so. "
'it's still like this next year'. The 'next year' in Liu Guoliang's words is naturally 2020, which is about to be the most important Tokyo Olympic Games. It is not difficult to guess that Liu Guoliang's implication is to hope that fan Zhendong can beat Zhang benzhihe, who is almost Japan's No. 1 men's singles, and climb the highest podium as today.
Fan Zhendong
Fan Zhendong, born in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province in 1997, is a Chinese male table tennis player and a male member of the Chinese national table tennis team. In 2008, 11-year-old fan Zhendong was selected by the Bayi team. In February 2012, he entered the Chinese national table tennis team; In December, he won the champion of men's singles, mixed doubles, men's team and the runner up of men's doubles in the World Youth Table Tennis Championships.
In April 2018, he won the 2018 Asian Table Tennis Cup Men's singles champion. On October 21, he beat Bohr 4-1 and won the 2018 Paris World Cup Men's singles championship. On December 12, he won the 2018 ITTF best male athlete.
On June 16, 2019, the men's doubles champion of the ITTF Japan open. On October 13, the men's singles champion of the German table tennis open.