The 4-day WTT Düsseldorf Challenge will start on January 12, the level of the challenge is low, Asian players will not travel long distances to choose to participate, the main force of national table tennis is concentrated on preparing for the Macao Championship, the Japanese players are preparing for the All Japan Championship and the T League, only European players have the opportunity to participate, this competition has mixed doubles, women's doubles, women's singles, men's singles and men's doubles 5 events. The top seed in the men's singles is Duda in Germany, and the top seed in the women's singles is Ni Xialian in Luxembourg, and due to the lack of strength of the opponent, the two have a great chance of winning the first crown of the new year.
Germany's Duda plays at home and will compete in the men's singles competition as the number one seed. Duda is the fourth main force of the German men's team in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, as a P card player of the German men's team at the Tokyo Olympic Games, he also has a certain strength, in the men's singles second round of the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships, Duda defeated Portugal's world top 10 Fresta 4-1 to advance to the round of 32, lost 1-4 to world champion Liang Jingkun in the 1/16 final, and the men's doubles partner Qiu Dang lost to Liang Jingkun / Lin Gaoyuan. In the singles and doubles world table tennis competitions, both lost to the main players of the national table tennis, not too ugly to lose. Duda still has a long way to go to squeeze out Germany's three main players, Bol, Ochalov and Francesca, and needs a championship like the Challenge to add confidence to himself.
It was mainly Portugal's Monteiro and Apollonia that brought resistance to Duda's men's singles victory. The Portuguese men's team once relied on the three old guns of Freitas, Apollonia and Monteiro to win the European Games and European Championships, and the overall strength is also the first in Europe, with the capital to compete with Germany and Sweden. Apollonia's wife is also a famous Chinese player, sun Zhenqi, who once played for Germany, has now retired from the army and has two children at home. Apollonia and Monteiro and top seed Duda are on a horizontal line, and the difference is not large, and the victory or defeat is unpredictable.
The number one seed in the women's singles is Luxemburg's Ni Xialian, who won the world table tennis championship women's team and mixed doubles championship and women's doubles runner-up in 1983, and is also one of the world champions of the Chinese table tennis team, but after representing Luxembourg, although she has been active in table tennis, she has always had no chance of winning medals in the competition, until the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships, she won a bronze medal in the women's doubles field partner Denut, and after 38 years, she can also win a world championship medal, Ni Xialian enjoys the fun brought by table tennis at the same time, but also performs an immortal legend.
The main players competing with Cherne Ni for the Women's Singles title at the Düsseldorf Challenge include Austria's Solja, Slovakia's Barazova and Egypt's Messeliff. Slovakia's Barazova and Pisterje are a pair of mixed doubles strongs in the international table tennis world, taking the European runner-up and the Tokyo Olympic Games top-8, the singles strength is still first-class in Europe, Messeiliv has won the African Championship women's singles championship, if nothing else, the top 4 of this tournament is produced among several people.