"I'm in shock"
Swede reaches the final with “miracle racket”
Truls Möregardh remains the sensation of the Olympic table tennis tournament. On Friday, the man with the hexagonal racket reached the final thanks to a 4:2 victory over the Brazilian Hugo Calderano - the first Swede to do so since Jan-Ove Waldner in 2000.
His opponent there is the second seeded Chinese player Fan Zhendong. The number one seed, his compatriot Wang Chuqin, had already been eliminated by Möregardh in the second round.
"I'm still in shock"
"I'm still in shock," said Möregardh after his triumph. For the first time since 2008, there are no two Chinese players in the Olympic singles final. The 22-year-old, ranked 19th in Paris, plays for the Saarbrücken club and also stands out thanks to his hexagonal racket. The very rarely used Cybershape racket has been optimized to maximize the hitting surface.
In his home country, the newspaper "Aftonbladet" has been raving about the new national hero with the wonder bat for days. "Here's the big super banger of the Olympic Games!" was the newspaper's latest headline.
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