The WTT Macau Championship will start tomorrow, and the national table tennis team will send a 30-person super lineup to compete, and the pre-match adaptation training will be carried out on these two days. Today's draw results are out, the first round of the game has a lot of points to watch, men's singles Ma Long vs. Liang Jingkun; women's singles Liu Shiwen against Wang Yidi, mixed doubles top seed Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha vs. Ma Long / Qian Tianyi.
The competition has three events: men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles, each with 16 seats. The men's singles national table tennis team sent 14 players to participate, and Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Xu Xin and Lin Gaoyuan became the top four seeds. Youngster Lin Shidong became the only player among the 16 players without a world ranking, and his first-round opponent was Zhou Qihao, who participated in the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships. Fan Zhendong played against Macau native Zhang Zicheng in the first round, Ma Long had a strong dialogue with Liang Jingkun, and Xu Xin and Zhao Zihao launched a Shanghai derby.
Women's singles national table tennis sent 13 players to participate, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi became the top four seeds, Chen Meng's first round opponent was Du Kaixuan of Hong Kong, Sun Yingsha and Hebei teammate He Zhuojia competed, Wang Manyu played against rookie Ku Man, and Wang Yidi faced Liu Shiwen. Liu Weishan and Wang Xiaotong ushered in a foreign war, and their opponents were Li Jie and Li Qian of the Netherlands.
There are 15 teams in mixed doubles, with Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha being the top seed, Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen, Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Manyu and Hong Kong's Lin Zhaoheng/Du Kaixuan in second to fourth. In the first round, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha played against the new combination Ma Long/Qian Tianyi, Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen played against Xu Yingbin/Liu Weishan, Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Manyu was played against Zhao Zihao/Liu Fei, and Fan Zhendong partnered rookie Ku man to face Yuan Licen/Wang Yidi. The only non-national table tennis pair Lin Zhaoheng / Du Kaixuan is against Xiang Peng / Zhang Rui.