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Two-time Olympic champion Ma Long did not qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics table tennis men's singles.

On May 7, 2024, the China Table Tennis Association announced the list of mixed doubles and men's singles entries for the Paris Olympic table tennis events on its official website. The mixed doubles will be played by Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, and the men's singles will be played by Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong. According to the table tennis competition rules of the Paris Olympic Games, three athletes, Sun Yingsha, Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong, automatically qualified for the men's and women's team competition.

It is worth mentioning that Ma Long, the two-time men's singles champion at the Rio Olympics and Tokyo Olympics, missed the singles competition, and his dream of three consecutive Olympic championships could not be realized.