On the morning of January 19, Beijing time, the first battle of the national table tennis in 2022 - WTT Macau Competition is about to officially kick off, the current lottery results of the three major projects have been released, and according to the arrangement, the first match day will be as many as 12 matches, and its Chinese table tennis will have 6 world champions, namely Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha.
At present, it seems that The Grand Slam Malone is likely to usher in a fierce battle in the mixed doubles, because he will face the World Table Tennis Championships mixed doubles champion wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha together with the junior Qian Tian, who has never worked together: In all fairness, this game Ma Long does have a great possibility of losing, and the veteran will face severe challenges!
See below for detailed arrangements.
At this WTT Macau Competition, the national table tennis sent a total of 30 players including 12 world champions to participate, and the foreign association also had 5 athletes invited, including many first-class masters such as Du Kaixuan, and it was a 1/8 elimination match from the beginning, so the competition was very fierce, and the number of games was also very dense.
At 11:00 this morning, two female table tennis players will kick off the Macau competition in the singles event, namely Wang Xiaotong, a post-00s youngster on the Chinese team, and Li Qian, a Chinese athlete on the Polish team – although the technical level of these two athletes is not the top level of table tennis, it can also be regarded as a valuable opportunity to test the 21-year-old Wang Xiaotong.
Next 11:45, the national table tennis "big dark horse" Zhou Qihao will be in a duel with the "little dark horse" Lin Shidong. Zhou Qihao defeated many of the team's main players (Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin) last year, who also won Xu Xin in the cold, so the competition between the two is worth watching.
At 12:30, Fan Zhendong/Ku Man mixed doubles duel Yuan Licen/Wang Yidi. Then at 13:15, Xiang Peng/Zhang Rui appeared to meet Lin Zhaoheng/Du Kaixuan, the two main players of the Hong Kong team, the strength of the two national table tennis players had to prepare for difficulties.
Note: Xiang Peng/ Zhang Rui vs Lin Zhaoheng / Du Kaixuan There is a dispute over the arrangement of this match, here is the world table tennis federation social platform post information, but the official website schedule shows that 13:15 is Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha vs Ma Long / Qian Tianyi, not 19:45 start (see below for details), but considering that Du Kaixuan will still play at 20:30, so her doubles should be more advanced to be reasonable - everything is based on the actual start time.
At 14:00, the women's team youngster Liu Weishan will compete with Li Jie, a Dutch Chinese player. At 14:45, world champion Wang Chuqin appeared on the stage, dueling straight to the french heir Xue Fei, after the end of this battle, the game was temporarily over, and the afternoon was rested.
A few hours later, at 17:30 will be two special players of national table tennis, Zhang Rui (horizontal shooting raw glue), facing Liu Fei (cutting the ball). At 18:15, world champion Lin Gaoyuan will face off against Lin Zhaoheng of Hong Kong China. At 19:00, Zhou Qihao, Xue Fei and Wang Xiaotong appeared again to participate in the mixed doubles project, and the specific arrangement was Zhou Qihao's partner He Zhuojia and the other two.
At 19:45, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha will compete with Ma Long/Qian Tianyi - although Ma Long's men's singles and men's doubles level is very high, but the mixed doubles does not have too many eye-catching results, plus the level of partner Qian Tianyi is not as good as Sun Yingsha, so this battle Wang Chuqin/Sun Ying has a better chance of winning. At 20:30, Du Kaixuan appeared on the scene and challenged Chen Meng, who was ranked no. 1 in the women's singles world.
At 21:15, Fan Zhendong, who is no. 1 in the men's singles world, will compete with Zhang Zicheng of China's Macau team, which should not be a big problem, and this will also be the closing battle of the first match day - so which athletes are optimistic about becoming the winners of the first day? The game is about to kick off, so let's sit back and wait for the summit showdown to kick off!