Ten days before the debut of the new season of national table tennis in 2022, the "Xinwen United Broadcast" group Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen appeared together again after last year's Shaanxi National Games, and the two of them together with Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, helped the 2021 National Table Tennis "Amateur Ball King" Finals and the National Amateur Table Tennis Championships Open Group Team Finals. At the scene of the game, both Olympic champions showed off their skills.
Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen are a mixed doubles combination created by the national table tennis for the new mixed doubles event of table tennis at the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the two have achieved impressive results in the international arena, winning multiple championships including the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships. However, due to Liu Shiwen's elbow surgery in 2020, the two's Olympic path was overshadowed. In the end, the two successfully participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games last July, but lost to the Japanese combination of Mizutani Hayabusa / Ito Mishimasa in the final and won the silver medal, and the two partnered to participate in the Shaanxi National Games last September, ending the cooperation of the two in the Tokyo Olympic cycle with a gold medal. At the subsequent Houston World Table Tennis Championships, both of them took the initiative to apply with the team not to participate because they wanted to rest, and thus missed the opportunity to defend their titles. Although both have appearances in the offseason, they both have their own jobs, and fans are looking forward to the two getting together again.
In December last year, the WTT Macau Championship was officially announced, confirming that the competition will be held from January 19 to 23 this year, setting up three events of men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles, and Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen will return to the field in this competition. After New Year's Day this year, the national table tennis troops assembled in Beijing for winter training and preparation for the WTT Macau Championship, but Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen did not return to the team for training, Xu Xin arrived in Beijing on January 6 to participate in the event, and Liu Shiwen arrived in Beijing at Christmas, and returned to Guangzhou at the end of the month after participating in the event.
Although the current WTT Macau Championship roster has not yet been announced, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen appeared in advance, and under the leadership of Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, the two participated in the national table tennis "Amateur Ball King" finals together. Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen not only presented awards to the top three teams as guests, but also interacted with the champion teams of different ages and played a one-game three-point singles game with the amateur ball king. Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen are both wearing national team uniforms, Xu Xin is wearing shorts, Liu Shiwen is wearing long pants, and the two are showing their skills on the field at the same time. The two did not play together this time, and it is not known whether the two will be paired on the field again in the WTT Macau Open 10 days later.