On the evening of December 10, the national table tennis team defeated the South Korean team 8:1 in the first ITTF Mixed Team World Cup and won the championship unexpectedly. This is Fan Zhendong's 17th world championship, and this honor allows him to surpass Wang Liqin and Zhang Jike, two superstars, and rise 2 places in the national table tennis men's gold king rankings.
Like Ma Long, Fan Zhendong is also a table tennis prodigy, and his first world title was in the team event at the 2014 World Table Tennis Championships, just three or four months after his 17th birthday. In the following years, Fan Zhendong took one step at a time, and successively won the World Cup team competition, the World Cup singles competition, and the World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles. At the Tokyo Olympics two years ago, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long and Xu Xin jointly won the men's team championship, and their table tennis career reached a new height.
Entering the Paris Olympic cycle, Fan Zhendong has become the most active role in the men's table tennis world, during which he almost monopolized the top spot in the singles world rankings, winning the men's singles championship at the 2021 and 2023 World Championships. Since the Paris Olympic cycle, Fan Zhendong has won 5 gold medals in the World Championships and the World Cup, and the number of victories in the world's three major competitions has quietly risen to 17.
Winning 17 world championships means that Fan Zhendong has surpassed Wang Liqin and Zhang Jike, two superstar players, both of whom have 16 world championships.
Wang Liqin is not a Grand Slam winner, but he is recognized as the male No. 1 in the first 10 years of the new century, during which he won the Bryde Cup three times, ranked No. 1 in the world for a long time, and set a new ......record for the number of international Open titlesZhang Jike is synonymous with the miracle of world table tennis, and the record he set 11 years ago for the shortest Grand Slam has not been surpassed so far. can surpass Wang Liqin and Zhang Jike in the important indicator of the number of world championships won, highlighting the brilliance of "Little Fat" sports career.
Fan Zhendong won 17 world championships, and the number of individual gold medals ranked first in Chinese men's table tennisAt present, there are only 2 people with more than 20 golds, Ma Long and Xu Xin, Ma Lin and Wang Hao are both 18 golds, and "Little Fat" is only one step away from Ma Wang's second general!
In 2024, the International Table Tennis World Championships team competition, the Paris Olympics, the World Cup mixed team competition, and the World Cup singles competition, which has been suspended for three years, will also resume. At present, the 26-year-old Fan Zhendong is in the first stage of his sports career, and it is not difficult for him to break through 20 gold medals in his national career, and his goal should be higher - to hit the Grand Slam. At present, Fan Zhendong is only one step away from the Grand Slam: Olympic singles champion, can he achieve this glory?