Today, January 17th, just two days away from the WTT Macau Swing. At 18:00 this afternoon, there will be a press conference and a drawing ceremony. Fans are waiting for Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Liu Shiwen to sign. Yesterday, the national table tennis coaches and players have arrived safely at the Macau Hotel, and Liu Guoliang also led everyone to take a family portrait.
At this WTT Macau Competition, the Chinese team sent a total of 30 team members to participate. Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Zhou Qihao and other 14 players will participate in the men's singles competition, and 13 players such as Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Liu Shiwen, Wang Yidi and Chen Xing will participate in the women's singles competition. Yu Ziyang, Wang Tianyi and Shi Xunyao, who do not participate in singles, play in mixed doubles matches. Players from the foreign association include Du Kaixuan of Hong Kong, China, Li Jie of the Netherlands, Li Qian of Poland, Lin Zhaoheng of Hong Kong, China, and Zhang Zicheng of Macau. Due to the conflict between the date of the Japan National Championship and the time of this WTT match, Japanese players such as Ito Mimachi, Tomokazu Zhang, Yoshizumi Ishikawa, etc. did not participate, and also due to the epidemic and physical reasons, German stars Pol and Ocha also failed to participate.
Although the number of players from the foreign association is not large, because of the return of Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, as well as the addition of many young players of the national table tennis team, coupled with the adjustment of the mixed doubles event, this competition is still very concerned, and the tickets are sold out early. It can be seen that everyone is still very supportive and concerned about the table tennis competition.
Judging from this list, Ma Long Chen Meng may be regarded as the number one seed. Although Fan Zhendong won the National Games and World Championships and the World Cup men's singles championship, because they were all obtained without Ma Long participating, from the current point of view, Ma Long still ranks first in the team.
The women's team is currently looking at Chen Meng's position or is arranged in the first place. Although Chen Meng had a slump after the Olympic Games, and the National Games, world championships and World Cup did not reach the final, she still ranked ahead of Sasha and Manyu by virtue of her Olympic singles champion status. Liu Shiwen, a veteran who has not competed for a long time, was placed in the fourth place in the list. It seems that the Olympic champion still has a lot of gold content.
I don't know if the signings are arranged according to the position within the team, but the performance of these Olympic champions will undoubtedly make the game more beautiful and the competition will be more intense. Who do you think will win the championship?
Mixed doubles Xinwen combination and Shatou combination as the top two seeds, who are you more optimistic about winning the championship?