Beijing time on January 11 news, with the return of veteran Xu Xin, the main players of the 7 Olympic champions of national table tennis (Ma Long, Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, Liu Shiwen, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha) have finally been officially assembled, and everyone has worked together to make final preparations for the WTT Macau Tournament at the end of the month.
Although this competition has no points and is not recognized as the official competition of WTT, the Chinese team is elite and is bound to play its own prestige in the first battle of the new year, which is really a veritable peak battle, which is expected!
As we all know, every Olympic Games of national table tennis will form a group of core main players, but the situation in the Tokyo Olympic cycle is extremely special, because the Chinese team used the P card substitute right for the first time, and as a result, Liu Shiwen withdrew due to injury before the team competition, while Wang Manyu successfully took the position and won the gold medal with his teammates.
As a result, hu national table tennis currently has 7 Olympic champions, which has never appeared in previous history. But from the perspective of age, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen 3 people have obviously entered the end of their careers, and last year they also voluntarily gave up international competitions such as the World Table Tennis Championships, so their game is to watch one less.
No, as early as the news that Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen would participate in the WTT Macau Tournament, the table tennis circle immediately "exploded the pot", because many people did not expect that the 3 veterans would participate in the war again, but everyone also questioned: Can Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, who have not experienced the baptism of actual combat for a long time, still compete to win the juniors?
After all, in the past few months, Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, and Sun Yingsha have all achieved impressive results in international competitions, which is not what it used to be. Now that the new era of national table tennis has arrived, can the kings of the old era still regain their might?
At present, we can't predict the outcome of the Macau tournament, but now that the veterans have chosen to return to the team to train with the new people, it means that they do not intend to end their careers easily, and still hope to prove their strength in the first game of 2022.
So who of the above 7 Olympic champions can have the last laugh? Can other athletes such as Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin successfully reach the top? The game is about to kick off, so let's wait and see: Come on, guys!