On December 21, 2021, the good news came from the table tennis world, and another event was officially confirmed, that is, the WTT China Macau Tournament from January 19 to 23 next year (full name is "WTT Macau Championship 2021 China Star"), and what is even more surprising is that the national table tennis Olympic champions Ma Long and Xu Xin attended the relevant press conference.
Prior to this, Ma Long and Xu Xin had given up the competition in the final of the World Table Tennis Championship and the WTT World Cup consecutively, and now the appearance of the two has also made many fans speculate: Will they return to the field and continue to write their legend?
2021 is coming to an end, and the competition arrangements for table tennis in 2022 have been released one after another. Prior to this, the national table tennis team had already ended all the foreign war missions of the year on December 9, including the return of a large number of troops from the WTT final in Singapore, and the return of eight young young players from the World Youth Championships in Portugal, and then entered the quarantine stage.
According to the official website of the International Table Tennis Federation, the first international competition in 2022 will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany, on January 12 next year, which is also a WTT event, but there are no athletes ranked above 40 in the world to register, and the 58-year-old veteran Ni Xialian, who is the highest ranked, is not known whether the Chinese team will participate.
Compared with the Düsseldorf Race in Germany, the WTT Tournament held in Macau, China is undoubtedly more likely to attract national table tennis players to join, after all, it is at home, and the related transportation, protection and other aspects of work will be more convenient, especially Ma Long, Xu Xin also personally came forward to do publicity, so everyone is very hopeful to see the figure of the national table tennis athletes at this event.
Prior to this, the first leg of the WTT World Table Tennis Federation was held in Macau, which attracted a large number of Chinese players to join, and the men's singles champion was Also Ma Long (defeated Wang Chuqin 5-1 in the final), and now after more than a year has passed, he has returned here again, looking forward to Ma Long playing again and impacting the defending champion!
Compared with the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships in 2021, the foreign war task of the national table tennis in 2022 is relatively relaxed, and the primary goal of winning the gold is naturally the team World Table Tennis Championships (held in Chengdu, China), and then the old World Cup that may be restarted, and the new WTT Grand Slam Tournament that has been on the way to preparation.
So who will be the new king of the 2022 season? When will the three Olympic champions Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen return to the field? The suspense is still there, let's sit back and wait for the New Year to come!