Liu Guoliang finally trusted the young man! In the absence of Veterans such as Ma Long, Wang Chuqin led 28 people to compete. The ITTF has confirmed on its official website that Chinese table tennis will participate in the 2022 WTT Oman Regular Season Challenge, and 28 people have now registered, including 16 male players and 12 female players. The 2022 WTT Oman Regular Season Challenge kicks off on Feb. 27, which means that at the end of this month, fans will once again see national table tennis players competing in international competitions.
At present, 28 members of the national table tennis team have registered, of which 16 are male players, namely Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin, Lin Shidong, Yuan Licen, Xu Yingbin, Xiang Peng, Xu Haidong, Zhao Zihao, Zhou Qihao, Sun Wen, Yu Ziyang, Xue Fei, Liu Dingshuo, Zhang Yudong, Cao Wei; there are 12 female players, namely Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi, He Zhuojia, Zhang Rui, Kun Man, Liu Weishan, Chen Yi, Shi Xunyao, Fan Siqi, Yang Huijing, Zhu Sibing, qi Fei. Because this competition has a quota limit on the world's higher ranking players, so the national table tennis did not let Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha and other players with higher rankings in the world participate, in addition, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen three veterans did not appear in the list, it is worth mentioning that in this competition, the national table tennis team in the post-00 players are close to half, from here it can be seen that Liu Guoliang has trusted the young players, and the coaching team also attaches great importance to the post-00 players.
Everyone should know that in the past two years, due to the impact of the epidemic, the national table tennis rarely goes abroad to participate in the competition, even if it goes abroad to compete, the number of participants sent will not be too many, like the previous Houston World Table Tennis Championships National Table Tennis has only sent 11 people to participate. Although the WTT Macau Championship in January, the national table tennis sent up to 30 people to participate, but because the event has no points, and only 5 foreign athletes participate, so the WTT Macau Championship is completely a practice event within the national table tennis, the reference value is not large.
And this WTT Oman regular season challenge, the national table tennis arranged 28 people to participate, in the past two years is indeed rare, and from the list of participants, the post-00 young general Wang Chuqin led, there are more than a dozen post-00 players, it can be seen that the national table tennis has shifted the focus to young players. It is understood that the national table tennis team will be regrouped on February 6, followed by a closed training of about 20 days, to be completed to go to foreign competitions, because there is also the first WTT Grand Slam tournament in March, so the national table tennis should not return to China in the short term after going abroad, hoping that the national table tennis players can achieve good results.