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Defending champions China won a final rematch over South Koreaatthe Asian Games in Doha on Sunday to claim their seventhAsianGames mens table tennis team title.
It is also the fourth straight Asiad team gold for theall-timeleaders of mens table tennis, as they trounced arch-rivalsSouthKorea in their fourth consecutive final encounter in anAsiad.
Showing an unstoppable momentum, Wang Hao, Ma Lin and ChenQicrushed the South Koreans 3-0, while only the second gamefromquadruple World Cup winner Ma was drawn to full sets.
Leading most of the first set against Oh Sang Eun, Ma,followingWang Haos 12-10, 11-4, 11-4 win over Olympic champion RyuSeungMin, was unexpectedly pulled into chaos when the Koreanveteranplayed some placement shots to win it 11-8.
Ma, an Olympic doubles champion, managed to find hisstyle,winning the following sets 11-6, 11-6, before he was beaten11-5 inthe fourth set and forced into the deciding one.
The decider went all the way to the 26-year-old Ma, who, withhistrademark forehand topspin, won nearly all the rallies,allowingthe tall Oh only three points.
Chen Qi won the third game over defensive player Joo SaeHyuk11-6, 11-2, 9-11, 11-9.
Earlier Sunday afternoon, the Chinese women took back theAsianGames gold medal which they lost four years ago in Busan,SouthKorea, beating Asiad final newcomer Singapore instraightgames.
Ace paddler Wang Nan led a strong run by the Chinese triotooutclass their opponents 3-0.
She overcame an early setback to beat Sun Bei Bei 9-11,11-7,11-8, 11-8, before Guo Yan and Guo Yue won over Li Jia Wei andTanPaey Fern 3-1 and 3-0 respectively.
The victory erased the bad memories of Wang and her team attheBusan Asiad in 2002 when the seemingly unbeatable Chinesewomensuffered an incredible and humiliating 3-1 final defeat toDPRKorea.
Vocabulary:
arch-rivals：主要对手
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