Chinese Ma Lin turned from survivor to aggressor as he won a dramatically tense fight against Sweden's Jan-Ove Waldner at the 2001 ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals here on Thursday.

　　Though Waldner, the Sydney Olympic silver medalist, led most ofthe time but narrowly lost 3-4 to Ma with 11-5, 6-11, 11-8, 6-11,6-11, 11-5, 10-12.

　　When Waldner was one step close to finish the seven-set game at 10-5, it was Ma who overturned the situation, coming back to upset the Swede 12-10.

　　"My style is to rally from behind and laugh at the end. I had never lost faith in myself no matter how hard the game it was today." Ma, 8th on the Pro Tour ranking, said after the game.

　　"It was nothing about technical matters when I was 5-10 behind in the decisive set. It was confidence that helped me to go through the difficulties," he said.

　　Waldner admitted that lack of confidence and too many unforced errors cost his chance to reach the next round.

　　"I had a poor record against Ma in our previous encounters. I made some mistakes by myself. To be honest, I was close to my best form while Ma was not in 100 percent good form," the Swede veteransaid.

　　Belgium's top-ranked men's player Jean-Michel Saive knocked out local favorite Liu Guozheng 4-1 (11-7, 8-11, 11-9, 14-12, 14-12)

　　The 32-year-old Belgian said: "I knew that I must take the first set and I did it. I won a close game."

　　"I should say I was lucky today that I took the chance at the decisive moment at the last two sets," the nine-time world No.1 player said.

　　Wang Liqin, China's defending champion of both singles and doubles, ousted teammate Ma Wenge 4-1 while Chinese Taipei's Chiang Pung-Lueng stormed past South Korea "Fighter" Kim Taek Soo 4-0.

　　In the women's action, South Korea's Ryu Ji Hye romped Viktoria Pavlovich of Belarus 4-0 and China's Sydney Olympic double gold medalist Wang Nan defeated Kim Hyon Hui of DPR Korea 4-2.