On January 23, the wtt Macau tournament came to an end, and the national table tennis players entered a short rest period. The World Table Tennis Federation also released the schedule for the first quarter of this year on its official Weibo. It is not difficult to find that in addition to the regular season challenge and the star challenge, the most concerned is the first Grand Slam event held in Asia from March 7 to 20. According to the World Table Tennis Federation, WTT Grand Slam events represent the latest and top blockbuster event for professional table tennis, and are also the backbone of the WTT Series. The tournament features singles, doubles and mixed doubles events, where the top table tennis players will have a strong dialogue to present the best matches for fans.
The World Table Tennis Federation explained that the top players in the table tennis world have launched a strong confrontation to present a wonderful game for the fans. If you follow this explanation, Xiao zao Liu Shiwengui is eligible to participate as the Olympic women's team champion and the world championship women's singles champion. But I don't know if Liu Guoliang on the Chinese side will once again sacrifice veterans to let them give up this qualification because they want to cultivate new people, after all, this has points, and it is the highest point of 2000 points, the same points as the Olympic World Championships.
Judging from the WTT Macau competition, although Xiaozao Liu Shiwen is 30 years old, her form has returned with the recovery of injury, and she has won the mixed doubles championship and the women's singles runner-up in this competition. In particular, the women's singles project defeated the strong Wang Yidi and Sun Yingsha, and it is not a pity not to let Xiaojue Liu Shiwen go?
This is also the case with Ma Long and Xu Xin, in fact, the technology and status can also compete with young people, and if the Grand Slam event does not allow them to participate, it will inevitably affect the excitement. Although the meaning of the current Grand Slam is different from that of the previous One, the new Grand Slam may be more interesting.
The original table tennis Grand Slam refers to an athlete who wins the Olympic singles championship, the World Championship singles champion and the World Cup singles champion, and the collection of these three singles champions is a Grand Slam. Today's Grand Slam means that an athlete who wins a certain leg of the WTT Grand Slam can become a Grand Slam player. It's not easy to gather three singles titles, but with the new format, it's easier to get a WTT Grand Slam title.
Here I hope that Liu Guoliang can give Xiao zao Liu Shiwen a chance to realize her dream, liu Shiwen ranked first in the world at the 2016 Olympic Games, gui was the 2015 World Cup women's singles champion, the 2016 Asian Cup women's singles champion, the International Table Tennis Federation named her to participate in the Olympic singles, but because she was not the World Championships women's singles champion and was denied by the Chinese Table Tennis Association. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games were postponed and won the Women's Singles Championships, but because of injuries, they could not get the Olympic singles quota because they were no longer the first in the world, and could not become a Grand Slam. This time, I hope that Liu Shiwen has the opportunity to participate in the competition and win the Grand Slam, but does Liu Guoliang give the veterans a chance?