Falck is now ranked at the 16th place in the world and is now also among the 16 remaining in the pre-match single bet. He did an absolutely flawless effort in the third round against Tiago Apolonia. The Portuguese player didn’t have a chance against the hearts of swedes artillery.
Falck dominated the game through and won in four straight sets with 11-6, 11-4, 11-5, 11-8.
“I have a great hit on the ball, I managed to put the pressure on him and making good decisions all the time,” says Falck to the TT.
over his coach, the old world champion Jörgen Persson, who creates a safety on the bench.
” We have found a good cooperation. Jörgen is smart, tactical, quiet, and he has experience of similar situations previously.
Now waiting for sydkoreanen Lee Sangsu, ranked sixth and third in the last world CUP, in åttondelen.
“We met in the team competition at the OLYMPICS in Rio in 2016, and then I won with 12-10 in the skiljeset,” says Mattias Falck.
Falck to the quarterfinals in the doubles together with Kristian Karlsson, after the 4-1 in the set against Woojin Wang/Ganghyeon, Park, south Korea. 27-year-olds work as a team and have previously taken bronze in the european CHAMPIONSHIPS. Competition in the world CUP, however, is a completely different.
In Thursday’s quarter-finals waiting for Ovidiu Ionescu and Alvaro Robles from Romania and Spain respectively. Ionescu and Robles is in singles ranking of 39 and 51 in the world, a bit behind the swedes, who are 16 and 32.
If Karlsson/Falck wins the quarter-final is the medal secured, because it cannot be played any bronsmatcher in the world CUP. It is the first time in 22 years that a Swedish couple reached the quarter-finals of the world CUP.
