Match 8 | Ma Long vs Truls Moregardh | Day 2 | Waldner Cup 2024 (Full Match Highlights)

World here, Truls Morgaard, in a must-win situation. Love all. Hey! It's a good start into the freehand. Yeah, yeah. Few have had a victory. Carril studying. Oh, what a flip! What a flip! Short to the forehand side. It's a long way to go, but he manages somehow to play this ball completely out of reach. Ma Long, doing what he knew. Pressure. Truls had a good opportunity. This forehand is still arguably the greatest forehand we've seen. What a combination. Soft drop, rise over the table I've seen in a while in a forehand flip. Eight, nine. I'm out. Hit his freehand. Hey! What a combination. Winning shot. Again, watch this one more time. Beautiful long push, and Ma Long plays it right on the wide of the line. A delicate spin. And it's enough to secure game number one, not a game dropped in his history against Truls Morgaard. Game two, Ma Long to serve. Love one. Oh, the counter is forehand, and it's a swervy, flattish hit. Flattish hit. Not to be confused with other combinations of words. Yeah, it's good. Ma Long to serve. For Sweden's Truls Morgaard. A little fortune here. Most flattering of the ones I know. Soft drop, just for the record. Side and under, perfect three. The racket for full speed, and then it's the flat hit back for the win. Soft drop. Nate's up. Oh, it comes. Tough not to love the guy. Oh, the edge of the table here. Four, nine. What an unusual combination of brushing back Truls and a little dance points. What Truls did was pressure right to the camera. Truls points. He just beat Ma Long for his first time, one game. It's not over. Heavy side, watch this, right around that net. One. There's the second. And with nothing on it, you don't have to go over the net. Not in table tennis. Truls Morgaard to serve. Truls could play a ball that comes back over the net, but in a moment like this, wants to keep Ma Long behind the table. Ooh, creative players have made their mark. Time out. And a time on Truls' side. Oh, almost. A little break for Ma Long comes dangerously close. You know you can make this shot. So clever, shallow, short, and spinny. Forehand drive. Truls claps for that, says bravo. How did you unlock the handcuffs? 36. From an intimate crowd. Truls continues. To position. Morgaard down by three. Nice parallel. 36. Push carries the frustration. The championship points to not only 36 years old, but against Team World at the Cup, Team Asia, with four championship points. Truls serving, 7-10. Ma Long with two serves, two championship points left. No doubt about it, Truls Morgaard. And a credit to Truls Morgaard for being able to laugh and smile. He says, I've got a bold, unafraid Truls who's looking for the attack. I'm going to tempt him, and I am going to leave him with nothing. Oh, that pose. You've got to love it. Ma Long, oh, doesn't it make you melt? The dimples, the smiles, the friendship.