WTT Macau Championship will be held on January 19-23, the national table tennis set off from Beijing today to Prepare for the new season debut, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the national table tennis arrived at the Macau airport, and then checked into the hotel, the team members received welcome flowers, the whole team first carried out a big group photo, which is also the first big group photo of the national table tennis new year, Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, and qin Zhijian, the head coach of the men's table tennis, stood side by side, and the head coach of the women's team, Li Falcon, did not appear in the big group photo.
WTT Macao Championships has three events: men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles, each with 16 seats, this competition only has prize money without world ranking points, coupled with the impact of the objective environment, most of the participants are national table tennis players, the national table tennis sent 14 men's singles, women's singles 13 people, mixed doubles 15 pairs of combinations. The main team of national table tennis participated in all, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen, three veterans who were absent from the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, returned to the field in this tournament, Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and other absolute main players led the game, and Potential rookies such as Lin Shidong, Xiang Peng and Ku Man also got the opportunity to participate. Mixed doubles venue is even more interesting, the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships mixed doubles champion Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen after winning the Shaanxi National Games, once again hand in hand, the 2021 World Table Tennis Mixed Doubles Champion Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha ushered in the debut after winning the championship, Lin Gaoyuan and Wang Manyu will make up for the regret of the Houston World Table Tennis Championships temporarily split, Ma Long and Qian Tianyi, Fan Zhendong and Ku Man formed a new left-right combination, Chen Meng partnered liang Jingkun to play.
After the national table tennis arrived at the hotel where they were staying, the whole team first took a big group photo, Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, stood in the C position, surrounded by qin Zhijian, the head coach of the men's table tennis, And Ma Lin, the leader of the women's first team coaching team, and Liu Guozheng, the leader of the men's first team coaching team, also stood in the same row. Wang Manyu,in charge coach Xiao Zhan, and men's team coach Chen Xuan stood in the last row. Wang Manyu stood behind Qin Zhijian and was blocked from the camera, and Chen Meng, Xu Xin, Ma Long, Liu Shiwen and other main players stood in the third row. The head coach of the women's team, Li Falcon, and Fan Zhendong's head coach Wang Hao did not appear in the big group photo, I don't know if they will participate with the team this time or will arrive later, did not catch up with the big group photo, but some fans revealed that Li Falcon and Wang Hao did not participate this time.
Known as the "father of the Grand Slam", Li Falcon became the head coach of the national table tennis women's team in 2019, helping the national table tennis women's team to win all the championships of women's singles, women's doubles and women's teams in the world championships, and raised four five-star red flags at the women's singles award ceremony of the Houston World Table Tennis Championships last year. However, after the final of the women's team at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Guo Bin, the husband of Li Falcon's former disciple Wang Nan, revealed that Li Falcon had heart surgery before the Olympic Games, but in order not to delay the preparation, he had not told the team members, which was simply fighting for his life. After the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games, from time to time there was news that "Li Falcon will step down", this time Li Falcon did not appear with the team, perhaps because most of this competition is a civil war, no need for coaches to guide on the sidelines, Li Falcon also took this opportunity to recuperate.
And Wang Hao returned to China early after accompanying Fan Zhendong to participate in the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, did not go to Singapore with the team to participate in the WTT World Cup final, this competition he still did not appear, there is news that because of his family affairs, need him to take care of his family, so he failed to return to the national table tennis, accompanied by Fan Zhendong to continue to fight. However, after two years of experience, Fan Zhendong has grown and matured a lot, and even if Wang Hao is not around, he can also have a stable play.