On January 18, Beijing time, the WTT Macau Championship held a lottery ceremony, several major players of national table tennis have come to the scene, this competition, a total of men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles three events, although there are no points, but the total prize money is as high as 13 million yuan, attracting Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha A total of 7 Olympic champions will participate.
The tournament will last for five days, with the men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles quarterfinals from January 19 to 20, the quarter-finals on January 21, the mixed doubles final on January 22, the women's singles and men's singles quarterfinals, and the men's and women's singles semifinals and finals on January 23.
Since there are no foreign association players to participate, this competition has become the National Games, men's singles, Fan Zhendong and Ma Long are divided into upper and lower half of the zone, Fan Zhendong's first round against Zhang Zicheng, Ma Long is subject to the next draw, due to the new rules of the draw implemented by WTT in 2021, in the case of 16 groups of players, only 4 seed positions are set, and other players are randomly drawn into the lottery table, so the No. 2 seed Ma Long met the No. 5 seed Liang Jingkun, and the strong duel between the national table tennis teammates was staged in advance. In addition, Xu Xin and Zhao Zihao met in the first round.
In the women's single, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Chen Xing are in the upper half of the district, Sun Yingsha, Liu Shiwen and Wang Yidi are in the lower half, Chen Meng will fight Du Kaixuan in the first round, Sun Yingsha will face He Zhuojia, and Liu Shiwen will sign and will meet Wang Yidi, who has been in excellent form recently.
In terms of mixed doubles, Ma Long/Qian Tianyi will encounter World Table Tennis Champions Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen, Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Manyu, Liang Jingkun/Chen Mengtong in the second half of the district, which will also make the competition more intense!