The WTT Macau Tournament will officially start on January 19, which is also the first time that the national table tennis has participated in an international competition this year. Although it is a competition within the national table tennis, the intensity of the competition is not lower than that of ordinary international competitions. Judging from the officially released signing table, there are 6 major points to watch on the first day of the Macau Competition.
The first day of the men's singles competition is relatively small, only Ma Long vs. Liang Jingkun. Ma Long has not participated in the competition for a long time, liang Jingkun last year in slovenia consecutive regular season, World Table Tennis Championships, World Cup finals, for the sense of control of the game is stronger than Ma Long. Although Malone is the defending Olympic champion, Liang Jingkun has grown rapidly recently, and the results of the two matches are difficult to predict. As for Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin and other main forces, the strength of the opponents in the first round is average, and there is not much problem in advancing to the top eight.
There are more points to watch in the women's singles arena, and there are 3 major points to watch on the first day. The first is Chen Meng against Du Kaixuan, the two have played each other in the Olympic Games, chen Meng fought hard for six sets to win. Du Kaixuan's explosive power is relatively strong, Chen Meng is slightly slow and hot, and Chen Meng cannot appear in the slow heat of the Olympic Games to prevent the explosion from going out.
This was followed by Wang Manyu against Ku Man, both of whom won the World Championship in the same age group last year. Wang Manyu is now the core main force of the national table tennis women's team, heading the singles champion of the National Games and the World Table Tennis Championships. Kuman is only a young world champion and participates less in international competitions. However, Ku man's impact is strong, and in the past year, he has frequently participated in domestic and foreign competitions, and it is not impossible to challenge Wang Manyu. What's more, many of the main players of the national table tennis women's team are young and famous, and if Ku Man can defeat Wang Manyu in the Macau tournament, the development potential of the Paris cycle is immeasurable.
Finally, Liu Shiwen played against Wang Yidi. If you talk about the performance of the last year alone, Liu Shiwen is definitely inferior to Wang Yidi. After all, Wang Yidi won the Slovenia regular season women's singles championship last year, and the World Table Tennis Championships defeated Ito Mimako, and is the new main player of national table tennis. However, in the case of Liu Shiwen's wrist injury, she still entered the women's singles final four of the National Games, and Wang Yidi really did not have absolute certainty to defeat Liu Shiwen, and the battle between the two was also a major point of view.
There are two attractions in the mixed doubles arena. The first is Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha vs. Ma Long / Qian Tianyi, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha have just won the Mixed Doubles Championships of the World Table Tennis Championships, and their overall strength is far above that of Ma Long,Not to mention that Ma Long officially participated in the mixed doubles competition for the first time. However, Ma Long and Wang Chuqin have paired doubles and are more familiar with each other, which has become the premise for Ma Long to crack his opponent. Unfortunately, Qian Tianyi's overall strength is not as good as Sun Yingsha, and the Ma Long combination is lacking in hard strength, so Ma Long has a risk of losing 2 consecutively in the singles and mixed doubles 2 projects.
The second is the veteran duo Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen. Since the Tokyo Olympics did not win the mixed doubles championship, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen did not participate in the competition, and the Macau tournament is considered a comeback. Although the opponent in the first round is not too strong, as the runner-up of the Olympic mixed doubles, he still needs to reach the final to complete the goal, and may be able to compete with the world table tennis champion combination Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha.