On January 19, the WTT Macau Championship will officially start the first day of competition. In the first round of the game, there was a strong dialogue between Ma Long and Liang Jingkun, Liu Shiwen vs Wang Yidi, full of suspense. For the veterans of the long-sparse battle line, Ma Long and Liu Shiwen, the comeback debut is full of uncertainty, beware of a round trip!
For the world number one Fan Zhendong, his signing luck is quite good, the first round against Zhang Zicheng, a local player from Macau, China. The opponent is an unknown amateur player, and Fan Zhendong can easily win to familiarize himself with the competition environment. Of course, for Fan Zhendong, who has won the World Championship and World Cup singles championships, no matter who the opponent is, he has the strength and determination to win.
After the World Cup in Singapore, the head coach Wang Hao once again failed to accompany Fan Zhendong and missed the Macau match. According to the reasons announced by "Table Tennis World", Wang Hao could not come to Macao because of the problems of the entry and exit procedures of his unit. The head coach is not by his side, and Fan Zhendong wants to win the championship mainly on his own.
In addition to Wang Hao, the 59-year-old coach of women's table tennis Li Falcon did not lead the team to the Macau tournament, he had to review his body because of heart problems. During the preparation for the Tokyo Olympic Games, Li Falcon had a heart emergency, and later insisted on leading the team to the Olympic Games and the World Championships after treatment, and now he applied to the team to use the gap between the competitions for physical review and rehabilitation, and also reached the approval of the team.
Li Falcon's condition was not disclosed at the time, or after the women's table tennis completed the olympic victory task, Wang Nan's husband Guo Bin released the news to let the public know. Guo Bin said that Li Falcon had undergone major heart surgery, and in order to stabilize the military's heart, basically his life was gone, and his daughter-in-law Wang Nan was moved to tears by his mentor Li Falcon.
As a Grand Slam coach who trained Wang Nan, Zhang Yining and Li Xiaoxia, Li Falcon can be described as a hard worker, before he mainly lived in seclusion behind the scenes, until Kong Linghui left office, and finally took over the burden of the women's table tennis coach. In the Tokyo Olympic Games cycle, Li Falcon led the women's table tennis to complete the replacement of the old and new, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu participated in the Olympic Games for the first time and won the Olympic championship.
I hope that Coach Li Falcon will rest more, be healthy, and return to the team after recuperating.