The 2025 Macau World Cup Table Tennis Tournament ignited the fire on the 14th, and Chinese Taipei teenager Feng Yixin defeated Danish player Anders Lind 3:1 to win the first victory in the group stage and win the World Cup on his debut.
Chinese Taipei teenager Feng Yixin
The 22-year-old Feng Yixin is currently ranked 60th in the world, and this time due to the retirement of South Korean star Cho Dae-sung due to injury, he was temporarily re-entered into the competition, and this time he was in Group 8 with the world's No. 6 French star F. Lebrun and Denmark's Linde, and today he made his World Cup debut against Linde, who is ranked 33rd in the world, and the two also met for the first time in their careers.
Feng Yixin had contacts with Linde at the beginning of the game, scored 3 points in a row after a 6:6 draw, and successfully took the next city 11:8, Feng Yixin was caught by the referee in the second game A serve block, plus the opponent's good balls continued, including showing a change of hands to return the ball, which also allowed Feng Yixin to concede 6:11.
Feng Yixin regrouped in the 3rd game, forced out a lot of mistakes by Linde, started with a 7:0 offensive, grabbed the next game with 11:3, and the two continued to fight fiercely in the 4th game, Linde was caught hiding the ball once and challenged Feng Yixin to hide the ball when he was leading 8:6, but in the end the challenge failed, so this point must be counted to Feng Yixin, Linde protested for a long time, and his emotions were also affected after returning to the court, and he was more excited when he dropped the score, Feng Yixin was not affected by the opponent, played steadily, and finally won 11:9.
The World Cup men's and women's singles each 48 players, divided into 16 groups, each group of 3 people for the group round-robin, the group stage must play 4 rounds, the first place in the group to advance to the round of 16, the top 16 that is to adopt 7 games and 4 wins.