After a short New Year's Day holiday break, the National Table Tennis Bureau regrouped at the Training Bureau of the Beijing General Administration to start the 2022 winter training in preparation for the WTT Macau Championship from January 19 to 23. Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng and other team members were all photographed entering the training bureau. The national table tennis officially opened the new season.
In the second half of last year, the national table tennis team has participated in several consecutive competitions in the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Shaanxi National Games, the Houston World Table Tennis Championships and the WTT series. In last year's competition, the results of the national table tennis were still brilliant, but neither the Olympic Games nor the World Table Tennis Championships could achieve the package, the Tokyo Olympic Games did not win the mixed doubles championship, the Houston World Table Tennis Championships did not qualify for the men's doubles championship, and the national table tennis was also strongly challenged by many opponents. Last year, the national table tennis women's team successfully completed the replacement of the old and new, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu became the new core figures of the Chinese women's team, and the young players such as the men's team Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin and so on also underwent the competition experience, and in 2022, the national table tennis will continue to cultivate and select new talents.
After ending the Houston World Table Tennis Championships and the final of the first WTT World Cup, the national table tennis team arrived at the Weihai Nanhai Table Tennis Training Base for a 21-day quarantine. After the expiration of the quarantine period at the end of last month, the national table tennis players also ushered in the New Year's Day holiday, and on the evening of January 3, the national table tennis team gathered again in Beijing to start the preparation work for the new season and launch the first winter training of the Paris Olympic cycle. Sun Yingsha appeared at the door of the training bureau wearing a black down jacket, a black baseball cap, and a large backpack. Sun Yingsha cut her long hair short again during the isolation period, although wearing a hat, it can be seen from the exposed sideburns that after the end of the isolation, Sun Yingsha cut her hair very short.
Chen Meng, who won two gold medals in the women's singles and women's team at the Tokyo Olympics, although she performed modestly at the Houston World Table Tennis Championships in November, she still ended the 2021 season with the year-end world no. 1 ranking. During the New Year's Day holiday, Chen Meng also returned to her family, and she posted a group of photos of herself watching the sea in Qingdao, and the atmosphere of Chen Meng's seaside with exquisite makeup was full. However, on the evening of the day when the beautiful photos were posted, Chen Meng appeared at the door of the Beijing Training Bureau and walked to the training bureau with two large bags of snacks. Fans are still looking forward to seeing Chen Meng at the airport, but they did not expect that she still quietly returned to Beijing to start winter training. The training time of the national table tennis in Beijing will not be too large, about half a month or so, on January 19, most of the main players of the national table tennis will go to Macao to participate in the WTT Macau Championship, and the national table tennis will also start the journey of the new season.