The 2021 WTT Macau Championships were held on January 19-23 at the Macau Ta shek Stadium, the competition has a total of men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles 3 events, before the outside world has speculated that there will not be too many foreign association players participating in the competition, mainly based on national table tennis players, but the real official announcement of the lineup is not so, the national table tennis led by Ma Long, Liu Shiwen, a total of 14 people participated. Foreign opponents including Lin Yunru in Taipei, Falke, Sweden's world table tennis men's doubles champion, and Singapore's Feng Tianwei, a member of the world table tennis team champion, are most surprising that the name of Ding Ning, the veteran captain of national table tennis, is prominently listed.
The men's singles competitions include: Ma Long, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan, Zhou Qihao, Wang Chuqin, Zhao Zihao, Fang Bo, Caldrano, Lin Yunru, Falke, Zheng Rongzhi, Pechford, Zhang Yuzhen, Huang Zhenting, Pingjing and Saleh.
7 of the 16 men's athletes are from the national table tennis men's team, the more unexpected is that the new world table tennis championships men's singles champion Fan Zhendong and the men's singles runner-up Liang Jingkun are not in the lineup, the leading figures are the Tokyo Olympic men's singles champion Ma Long and team member Xu Xin, the two did not participate in any competition after the National Games, how the state needs to be tested on the spot, and Lin Gaoyuan, Zhao Zihao, Wang Chuqin, who participated in the World Table Tennis Championships, and Fang Bo, who was on the verge of retirement, all participated. In this lineup, the straight board player Zhao Zihao represents the future Chinese men's straight board new force, and Wang Chuqin is the leader of the future young players, and how the results directly affect the status of the two in the national table tennis.
Major title contenders include Brazil's Caldecano, South Korea's double males Jung Young-sik and Jang Woo-jin, and Taipei's Lin Yunru. Calderano ranked 4th in the world, but two consecutive world table tennis championships and World Cup finals have not reached the men's singles final, Zheng Rongzhi and Zhang Yuzhen as second-rate players in the men's line, the impact is limited, but still can not be underestimated, Taipei youngster Lin Yunru in the Tokyo Olympic Games to reach the men's singles top 4, is the young generation of the biggest threat to the fierce enemy, and even surpassed Zhang Benzhihe. In this competition, Lin Yunru should be regarded as the number one opponent.
Women's team roster: Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Ding Ning, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, Feng Tianwei, Zheng Yijing, Du Kaixuan, Solja, Szokos, Zhang An, Liu Weishan, Diaz, Xu Xiaoyuan.
The national table tennis also sent 7 female team members to participate, the three main players of the Olympic Games Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu were all listed, and the three of them were also the most likely players to win the women's singles championship in this competition. According to this year's results, Wang Manyu is in the best condition, and it is possible that Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha will win the championship again.
The most surprising thing is the Grand Slam winner Ding Ning, she is basically on the verge of retirement, but she is still on the list of the Macau Championship, I don't know whether it is the inadvertent mistake of the organizing committee or Ding Ning is still fighting on the field and continuing to prepare for the Paris Olympic Games. Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong and Liu Weishan, as members of the mine clearance, are expected to defeat foreign association opponents in advance and clear the obstacles for the national table tennis championship.
There are not many opponents who can pose a threat to the national table tennis women's team, Feng Tianwei, Zheng Yijing, Sol Jia, Szokos, Zhang An, Diaz, Xu Xiaoyuan have not defeated the main national table tennis team in the past two years, and Du Kaixuan of Hong Kong, China, although he defeated the champion of the Xinke World Table Tennis Championships Wang Manyu in the World Cup finals, is also a coincidence, once the national table tennis strengthens research, I am afraid it will be difficult to get rid of the failure.