Beijing time on January 16 news, the Chinese table tennis team has officially set off to Macao to prepare to participate in the first battle of the new year - WTT Macau. According to the list of athletes that have been announced, as many as 30 people have signed up for the event, including 12 world champions, which is indeed a huge momentum!
The game will kick off on January 19th, fans and friends have been unable to hold back the excitement, early began to wait for the new "fairy fight" to open the curtain, but also do not forget to remind the national table tennis athletes: please pay attention to safety!
Macau was the first city to host a new world table tennis federation event, hosting the first WTT Challenge as early as 2020, and now that more than a year has passed, it has taken on a new competition again, and it is indeed very supportive of table tennis.
However, unlike the last competition, this year's Macau Tournament is almost only attended by Chinese athletes, except for a few Chinese players, the rest are from China's three associations, and its Chinese table tennis accounts for more than 80%, so many fans also compare it to the "small warm-up game" within the team, plus there is no world ranking points, so this time it is still based on competition training.
As mentioned earlier, the Macao National Table Tennis Tournament sent a very large-scale team to participate, including veterans Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen who were previously in a semi-retired state, as well as the world champions Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, Chen Xingtong, as well as Xiang Peng, Ku Man, Lin Shidong and other very young stars of hope.
Although it is a "no level" event, it is enough to send so many famous players at once to make the entire table tennis world feel shaken, but it is a pity that Zhang Benzhihe, Ito Mimachi and others did not come to participate, otherwise it would be more lively.
Through the photos flowing out of the Internet, we can see that Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha and others have packed their bags on the road, and presumably they will soon be able to come to the news that they have settled down in Macao and started training - although there is no Olympic Games and individual World Table Tennis Championships in 2022, there are still team World Table Tennis Championships and Asian Games to prepare, this time to exercise well.
However, not long ago, the WTT Düsseldorf In Germany reported that many people were tested positive, so I wish the WTT Macau Tournament to be held safely and let the athletes return safely: Come on!