The International Table Tennis Federation, the Chinese Table Tennis Association and the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships Organizing Committee jointly confirmed that the 2022 World Table Tennis Team Championships are scheduled to be held on April 17-26, 2022, in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, China, and that the competition will have 40 teams of men and women participating, with a maximum of 5 members per team participating, closed in the form of "bubbles". The World Table Tennis Championships, which include the Swesling Cup and the Cobilun Cup, are also symbolic of the highest level of competition for a country's men's and women's teams, and the Chinese men's and women's teams, as the defending champions, have a high probability of achieving the championship plan.
The 2020 Busan World Table Tennis Championships team tournament because of the serious epidemic in South Korea, can not guarantee the health of athletes and coaches and thus canceled the holding, the last World Table Tennis Championships team competition is still dating back to the 2018 Sweden World Table Tennis Championships, when the Chinese men's and women's teams defeated the German men's team and the Japanese women's team in the final, successfully achieved the championship plan, the Chinese men's team defeated Germany 3-0, but the Chinese women's team in the final sent Liu Shiwen lost to Ito Mimako 2-3, and finally still defeated the opponent 3-1.
In order to ensure the safety of the team during the World Table Tennis Championships, the International Table Tennis Federation, the Chinese Table Tennis Association and the Chengdu organizers specially convened a consultation on whether to hold the matter as scheduled, and finally decided to continue the competition, and on January 11, the date of the event was officially announced, scheduled for April 17-26, according to the previous practice, the World Table Tennis Championships were held at the end of April or the beginning of May. How to hold a successful and safe World Table Tennis Championships will be the primary task facing the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships Organizing Committee.
In front of the Chinese table tennis team before the World Table Tennis Championships can participate in not many competitions, it was determined that the Macao Championship, other competitions have not been included in the participation plan for the time being, Liu Shiwen, Ma Long and Xu Xin, who have been in the battle for a long time, are under greater pressure at the Macao Championships, which is one of the few public appearances before the World Table Tennis Championships, although it is not a selection of the team World Championships, but if the performance is bad, I am afraid that it will fall behind in the 5 places competing for the Team World Championships. The men's team of Ma Long, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin and Liang Jingkun will compete in a 6-5 competition, while the women's team's Liu Shiwen, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong will also face a 6-5 competition.
Because the team competition is a 5-set 3-win singles competition, so to be able to find at least 3 or more balanced players is the key to winning the world championship team competition, most of the world table tennis team is occasionally a sharp one or two team members, few national table tennis so strong that the world champion can not guarantee the point of being shortlisted for the lineup, but the national table tennis men's and women's teams still have opponents that cannot be underestimated: the German men's team Pol, Ochalov and Francesca Three old guns are not old, After the team silver medal at the last World Table Tennis Championships and the team runner-up at the Tokyo Olympic Games, it will certainly be the number one opponent of national table tennis; the South Korean team OfJong Young-sik, Lee Sang-so and Jang Woo-jin are technically balanced and have the strength to pick out the German team to meet the national table tennis men's team; the Japanese team, led by Zhang Benzhihe, supplemented by Yukiya Utada, Hayabusa Tokami and Yukiya Utada is also in the ranks of medal competition. The women's team only the Japanese team can also compete with the national table tennis, but the probability of upset is small, need Ito Mimachi to win 2 sets, teammates also have to give strength, this group of Japanese players and the 2010 Singapore team is not the same, victory over the Chinese team can be described as "fantastic".