Top seed Ma long crashes out of WTT Champions in Budapest

BUDAPEST, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Top seed Ma Long crashed out of the World Table Tennis (WTT) Champions held here on Wednesday and failed to advance into the quarterfinals.

Ma Long lost 3-2 to Germany's Patrick Franziska, while fellow Chinese players all notched up victories as second seed Liang Jingkun swept Sweden's Kristian Karlsson 3-0 and Lin Gaoyuan also swept German veteran Timo Bol 3-0.

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