The Chinese table tennis team is in centralized isolation at the Nanhai Table Tennis Training Base in Weihai, Shandong, and there are still three or four days left before the isolation is lifted. At this time, Liu Shiwen, who did not participate in the World Table Tennis Championships, returned to Beijing from Guangdong, her father accompanied her daughter back to Beijing, and then Liu Shiwen will participate in the "WTT Macau Championships" held from January 19 to 23 with the national table tennis.
In terms of results, Liu Shiwen's 2021 is not too smooth, although she has worked hard, broke free from injury and successfully participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games, but with Xu Xin, she lost to the Japanese combination Ofe Mizutani Hayabusa / Ito Mishimasa in the mixed doubles final, missing the first table tennis mixed doubles gold medal in the history of table tennis. In the subsequent women's team competition, Liu Shiwen withdrew due to a recurrence of injury, sitting in the stands and watching Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu win the women's team championship. Fortunately, in the following Shaanxi National Games, Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin partnered to win the mixed doubles championship and defeated Chen Meng to win the women's singles bronze medal. Subsequently, Liu Shiwen arrived in Wenzhou a few days later than most of the national table tennis to start closed training, and finally withdrew from the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships with Ma Long and Xu Xin because she needed to rest.
Not participating in the Houston World Table Tennis Championships means that she did not have the opportunity to defend her title in advance of mixed doubles and women's singles, and when the national table tennis team went to Houston to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships, Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen returned home for rest. Unlike Ma Long and Xu Xin, who have been in the public eye with the Olympic delegation to visit Hong Kong and Macao, Liu Shiwen has not been dynamically exposed, and even rumors have been rumored that Liu Shiwen is about to announce her retirement. On December 21, the WTT World Table Tennis Federation announced that the "WTT Macau Championship 2021 China Star" will be held in Macau from January 19 to 23, 2022, ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen will all return to the field, and fans will see Liu Shiwen again.
The national table tennis players, who participated in the finals of the Houston World Table Tennis Championships and the WTT World Cup, returned to China on the evening of December 8 and arrived at the Nanhai Table Tennis Training Base in Weihai, Shandong Province, for quarantine. When the national table tennis troops were about to end their quarantine, Liu Shiwen traveled from Guangdong to Beijing, and Liu Shiwen's father accompanied his daughter back to Beijing. At the Guangzhou airport, Liu's father helped his daughter take the down jacket to be worn in Beijing, and after checking in, he also left his daughter's time for the fans, and Liu Shiwen also met the needs of the fans to sign one by one. After arriving in Beijing, when Liu Shiwen was surrounded by fans and asked for an autograph, Liu's father took the suitcase and looked at the surrounded daughter from a distance, waiting for her daughter, and then drove away from the airport with her daughter.