What is the record of playing table tennis on the first day of Bulgaria Open?

In the early morning of August 17, Beijing time, the 20 18 ITTF Bulgarian Open ended the competition for the first match day. In table tennis, Xu Xin and Ding Ning beat their opponents one after another and advanced to the next round. Malone, captain of the men's table tennis team, lost to British player Pitchford and was out in the first round.

Malone once had a confrontation with Pitchford in the men's team competition of Rio Olympic Games, when he reversed his opponent by 3:/kloc-0. Meet again this time, Malone played smoothly in the opening stage and led 2-0. Pitchford then seized the opportunity to pull two sets in a row, although Malone rewrote the score to 3: 2 with 1 1: 7.

However, in the next two games, Pitchford played more and more bravely, especially in the deciding game, and gained a 5-0 lead. In the end, Malone lost to his opponent 3-4, which was his second consecutive off-court defeat at the Japanese Open since he lost to Zhang Benzhihe in the semi-final in June.

In other national table tennis competitions, Xu Xin, the second seed of men's singles, fought on two fronts. In the men's singles competition, he beat Slovakia by 4:/kloc-0:. In the first round of men's doubles, Xu Xin and Ma Long beat the Korean team Bai/Jin Dayu 3-0. In addition, China's Matt defeated Japanese Yoshimura Maharu 4-2.

There were no accidents in the women's table tennis field. After Ding Ning won the national table tennis derby with Ray, she will face another teammate Wen Jia in the second round, who eliminated Romanian star Samara 4-/kloc-0-0 in the first round. China's Liu Gaoyang defeated Japanese famous Kato You Mei 4-3 in the first round. China team Liu Xi easily defeated Japanese women's table tennis team Hayata Hina 4:/kloc-0.