WTT Macau has officially announced the list of participants, because last year just experienced the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships and other major competitions, the Macau Tournament is a commercial competition, so the national table tennis sent an all-star team to participate in the competition, in order to make up for the lack of participants. According to the official data, 16 men and women each team members participated, mixed doubles 16 pairs of competition, including 7 Olympic champions, and 12 main players, even Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen and other veterans will participate in the Macau Competition.
The first is the men's singles field, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan and Wang Chuqin 6 main players led the game. Fan Zhendong is now the world's first, just won the World Table Tennis Championships singles championship last year, and the competition with big brother Ma Long is worth looking forward to. You must know that at the Tokyo Olympics last year, Fan Zhendong lost to Ma Long, so that he missed the Olympic singles gold medal. Taking advantage of the opportunity to fight with Big Brother, Fan Zhendong can't waste the opportunity.
In addition, the national table tennis also sent Zhou Qihao, who was close to the main level, as well as young players Lin Shidong and Xiang Peng, and did not reduce the exercise of young players. Hong Kong's Lin Zhaoheng and Macau's Zhang Zicheng will also participate in the competition, and the competition between the brother teams is worth looking forward to.
The women's singles arena is even more star-studded. Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, who won the Team Championship at the Tokyo Olympic Games, all participated, and the competition of the three of them will be the main theme of the Paris cycle and the key main force for the national table tennis women's team to defeat other association players. Veteran Liu Shiwen withdrew from the World Table Tennis Championships and WTT World Cup finals last year, and this return is the same as Ma Long and Xu Xin's reasons, which are all in support of the Macau Tournament. As for Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong, because Ding Ning and Zhu Yuling are far away from the national team, they have actually become the main players.
And Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong participated in the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, which is enough to prove their current status. Second-rate players such as Qian Tianyi and He Zhuojia will also participate, plus Hong Kong's Du Kaixuan, Poland's Li Qian, and The Netherlands' Li Jie, the competition in the women's singles arena is greater than that in the men's singles arena.
There are two main attractions in the mixed doubles arena. The first attraction is that Malone officially participated in the mixed doubles competition for the first time at the Grand Slam, partnering Qian Tianyi. Malone used to participate in singles, and this time he was able to try a new project, which is also a kind of career success. Qian Tianyi participated in the women's doubles competition of the World Table Tennis Championships last year, and the overall strength is not bad, and it is worth looking forward to partnering with Ma Long.
The second attraction is the comeback of the Xinwen combination, competing with the mixed doubles main combination of Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha in the Paris cycle. Since the Tokyo Olympics did not qualify for the mixed doubles gold medal, the Xinwen group was basically disbanded and did not participate in the competition. However, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha won the mixed doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships, which is also the focus of the Paris cycle, and the two pairs will be the main force of the new and old national table tennis. Who can win the mixed doubles championship of the Macao Competition plays a key role in the future layout of national table tennis.