On January 14, Beijing time, the national table tennis officially announced the big list to participate in the WTT Macau Championship, and a total of 27 people were selected, including 14 men's teams and 13 women's teams. Among the specific personnel, the men's singles team is led by Ma Long, Xu Xin and Fan Zhendong, and the women's singles are all elite, and Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and other players are all listed. In addition, in terms of mixed doubles, the national table tennis team played a total of 15 pairs, including Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin, who had just won the mixed doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships.
The WTT Macau Champions 2021 China Star will be held from January 19 to 23 at the Ta shek Coliseum in Macau, China. This is the first large-scale competition event of national table tennis in 2022, in order to make a good start, I think all players will go all out.
It is worth mentioning that in this list, the three veterans Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen are all on the list, and these three veterans have not played in other international competitions since the domestic National Games and national competitions. Including the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup Finals, although the three are emphasizing a short farewell because of the rest problem, most of the outside world believe that this is the veterans giving young players a chance.
And one of the women's team veteran Liu Shiwen, this selection of the list proves that she has not yet reached the time to say goodbye, at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Liu Shiwen's state declined significantly due to injury problems, and the final women's team event was even more unable to participate, and the mixed doubles event was even more painfully lost the gold medal. Follow-up back to the domestic National Games, Liu Shiwen's state recovered, the women's singles project reached the semifinals, defeated Chen Meng to win a bronze medal, mixed doubles and xu Xin won the gold medal, Liu Shiwen re-proved herself and proved that she could still play. At present, the competition in the national table tennis women's singles is very large, Chen Meng is the Xinke Olympic women's singles champion, Wang Manyu has won the Women's Singles Championship of the National Games and the Women's Singles Championship of the World Table Tennis Championships consecutively, Sun Yingsha has won the Women's Singles Championship of the World Cup Finals, and the rest, including Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong, have strong strength. Under such competition, as a veteran, Liu Shiwen wants to re-play the results is not small, and needs to pay more training efforts.
The veterans of the men's team, Ma Long and Xu Xin, have always emphasized the stage of retirement, and Xu Xin has said that he will choose to leave until he can't beat the young players who just started the team. This means that Ma Long and Xu Xin's careers are far from the end, in the past few months, Ma Long and Xu Xin have been participating in some off-field activities, following the Olympic athlete team to visit Hong Kong, and then Ma Long participated in the interview with People Magazine and did a character interview, and Xu Xin went to the National Amateur Table Tennis League Finals with Liu Shiwen. These veterans have all been able to relax themselves during this short offseason and give themselves a break.
On January 19th, the WTT Macau Championships, the national table tennis team once again went out, Ma Long, Xu Xin played, looking forward to their performance!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)