The main players of the national table tennis are still in quarantine in Weihai, but the first international table tennis competition in 2022 is approaching. The WTT Championship will be held in Macau from 19 to 23 January 2022. At that time, fans can see the cool and heroic posture of the main force of the national table tennis part!
Introduction to the WTT Championship
The WTT Championship is a newly created business competition in 2021. This competition, unlike the Table Tennis Iii and other open tournaments, is completely free of points. It is an invitational event that is both entertaining and ornamental. Last year, the national table tennis sent Ma Long, Ding Ning, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and many first-line main players to participate, and finally Ma Long and Sun Yingsha won the men's and women's singles championships respectively.
More peculiar format
As a newly established event, the reason why the WTT Championship can make fans remember it deeply is because of the strange score rules of this event. The tournament begins with a 1-4 seeded qualifying tournament, using a five-point system of three wins in five sets. Unlike the conventional 11-point scale, 5 points has a very large contingency. Every single point can determine the outcome. It's exciting for the players, but it's not fun for the fans. The wonderful pull-on rounds will be drastically reduced.
In addition, in the knockout round, 11 points are also designed to not chase points, and there is only a phenomenon of chasing points in the decider. That's the equivalent of grabbing 11 points to win. In singles matches, there is also a 9-set, 5-win rule. At that time, the format of this Macau Championship Tournament was bright for fans who were accustomed to the 11-point system. But in the end, I am not used to it.
Fortunately, this is a more entertainment and commercial game, more to let the players relax. Being able to win the championship also has an additional bonus income. Participating players receive different amounts of prize money in the form of promotion. The most regrettable thing about women's table tennis at that time was Chen Xingtong, who had been winning and did not lose a game, but lost to Sun Yingsha in the final and did not get a full-win prize of $90,000. Wang Manyu ranked first in the seedings, lost to Sun Yingsha in the semifinals, if Wang Manyu wins Sun Yingsha in the semi-finals and wins the championship again in the final, he will get a full championship prize of 100,000 US dollars. Unfortunately, neither of them could match Sasha.
At that time, Ma Long and Wang Chuqin of the national table tennis won the men's singles championship and runner-up respectively, and Sun Yingsha and Chen Xingtong won the championship and runner-up of the women's singles respectively. The specific bonuses are as follows:
1) Men's Singles Champion: Malone, who won $72,500
3) Men's singles runner-up: Wang Chuqin, got $50,000
2) Women's singles champion: Sun Yingsha, who won $70,000
3) Women's singles runner-up: Chen Xingtong, a super dark horse, won $50,000
The new WTT tournament is about to open. I don't know which players will be sent by the National Table Tennis Association to participate? If Ma Long and other veterans will continue to truce, according to the quota of four men and four men, it is estimated that the men's team Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, the women's team Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi These 8 people have the greatest hope.
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