The WTT Macau Tournament will start on the 19th of this month, and the national table tennis will start the first match of the 2022 season. Judging from the list of participants that have been announced so far, the national table tennis will send a full main lineup to participate in this competition, three veterans such as Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen and so on will return to participate, and Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and other six main players of national table tennis will also participate.
Near the start of the tournament, the situation of the 9 players participating in the national table tennis competition is also different. Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and other main players quickly entered the training of the national team after ending the isolation. Ma Long, Xu Xin, and Liu Shiwen kept attending commercial activities and still hadn't carried out preparation training.
On the eve of New Year's Day, Liu Shiwen went to Beijing to participate in the event, and then returned to Guangzhou for training, during which she filmed a promotional video. Now, Liu Shiwen has traveled to Haikou to continue attending the event. Xu Xin also went to Beijing first, and after participating in the beijing activities, he went to Haikou. Ma Long came to Qingdao to participate in the opening ceremony of the "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics".
The date of the Macau Competition is approaching, and Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen are constantly participating in the activities and do not participate in the training. Seeing this situation, many fans can't help but ask, since they have chosen to participate, why are the three veterans so relaxed, do they not pay attention to the game, or do they deliberately fade out of the national team and choose to give up? Let's try to analyze it next.
First, the wtt Macau competition is a commercial competition, only prize money, no points, the three veterans are likely to still have a choice to participate, and will not do their best. Due to the impact of the epidemic, coupled with the conflict with the schedule of the Japanese National Championships. Therefore, there are not many players participating in this wtt Macau competition. Ito, Zhang Benzhi and others will not participate. The scale and schedule of the competition have been reduced, and it is likely to evolve into a warm-up match for national table tennis, an internal competition.
Second, after the Tokyo Olympic Games, the national table tennis has obviously accelerated the speed of the replacement of the old and the new. Ma Long, Xu Xin, and Liu Shiwen are all 30+ veterans, and their current situation is somewhat embarrassing. The competitive state of Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen has dropped significantly, and there have been no small ups and downs in their achievements. Although Malone has maintained a relatively strong competitiveness, his age is more awkward. In the World Table Tennis Championships and the WTT World Cup Finals, the three veterans have chosen to take the initiative to quit. The national table tennis players have played well during this period, which also makes the position of the three veterans at this stage somewhat embarrassing. Even if you do not choose to retire at this stage, it is likely that you will slowly fade out of the national team in the future.
Whatever the reason, since Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, the three veterans, have already chosen to play in the wtt Macau competition. That's still hoping that they can play well and bring more exciting games to the fans.
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