With three days left before the start of the Macau Tournament, the national table tennis officially set off for Macau to compete. The Macau Tournament will be the first leg of the year for national table tennis, starting officially on January 9 and ending on the 23rd. Although the national table tennis sent an all-star team to participate, due to the lack of foreign masters, the Macau tournament became a competition within the national table tennis. However, after the WTT World Cup final, the national table tennis players have been on vacation, and the Macau tournament can be used as a key competition in preparation for the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships in April.
The participation list of the Macao Competition has also been announced a few days ago, and all the main players of the national table tennis have all competed, including Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, who are absent from the World Table Tennis Championships. Judging from the photos from the airport, the color of Ma Long and Sun Yingsha's clothes is more prominent. Malone wore a short white down jacket, plus a hat on his head, and the whole person was relatively low-key. However, as the appearance of the national table tennis men's team, the clothes cannot hide Ma Long's handsomeness.
Sun Yingsha's clothes are the opposite color to Ma Long's, wearing a short black down jacket. A few days ago, Sun Yingsha accepted an interview with the media and bluntly said that she still has no head coach, but Xu Xin's head coach Chen Xuan is managing Sun Yingsha. Compared with Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, who are accompanied by a competent coach, Sun Yingsha's struggle process is slightly lonely. Fortunately, the coaching team did not ignore Sun Yingsha's growth opportunities, and women's table tennis coach Li Falcon sometimes guided Sun Yingsha to train.
Fan Zhendong's appearance at the airport was slightly blessed. Since winning the National Games and the Singles Championships of the World Table Tennis Championships, Fan Zhendong has become a well-deserved new brother of men's table tennis, and the Paris cycle will be his explosive period. It may be that there has been no training in the recent period, and the black sweatshirt inside Fan Zhendong can't cover up his body, and it seems that he needs to strengthen physical training. Now Fan Zhendong is becoming more and more like a big brother, and is expected to officially succeed Malone in the Paris cycle.
Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen have also attracted the attention of fans, and they will form a team to participate in the mixed doubles competition. Xu Xin has been promoted to vice chairman of the Asian Table Tennis Federation, and the main job in the future is definitely not to participate in the competition, but to give young teammates more opportunities to exercise. This time to play in Macau is to help the brother teams expand the influence of the tournament. Xu Xin and Ma Long have been chatting at the airport, and it is cherished that the two veterans can compete at the same time.
Liu Shiwen looked very calm and wore a team uniform to compete. Since the elbow injury, Liu Shiwen's strength has plummeted, and she is no longer the core main force of the national table tennis women's team. Although there is no official announcement of retirement, the Paris cycle will certainly not play the main game, and Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, and Sun Yingsha are not on the same level. But Liu Shiwen did not give up her table tennis career, and the Paris cycle can also participate in the WTT regular season to maintain competitive status. This time to have the opportunity to see the Xinwen combination play, fans need to see and cherish.