The Chinese table tennis team is conducting a new phase of closed training in Lingshui, Hainan, and the WTT World Table Tennis Federation today announced the time and place of the first WTT Grand Slam tournament. The opening match of the WTT Grand Slam tournament will be held in Singapore from March 7 to 20, and the specific participation list has not yet been announced, and it is not known who will be sent by the National Table Tennis Association to participate.
WTT Grand Slam is an innovative event of the WTT World Table Tennis Federation, with four tournaments per year, each with a total prize money of up to two million US dollars, which is the world table tennis federation's most prize money, and the singles champion wins 100,000 US dollars. The singapore leg is the "opener" of WTT Grand Slam tournaments. The competition has five events: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles, with 64 seats in singles, 24 seats in doubles, and 16 seats in mixed doubles. Each champion will receive 2,000 ITTF World Ranking points.
The most important competition in the first half of this year is the team World Table Tennis Championships held in Chengdu in April, and the Singapore WTT Grand Slam Tournament has become a training ground for each team, testing the results of their closed training and understanding the latest situation of their opponents. At the end of last year, after the end of the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, the first WTT World Cup final was held in Singapore, and only two events were set up in the men's singles and women's singles, and the champions belonged to Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha of the national table tennis. The national table tennis players who ended the Spring Festival holiday began on the sixth day of the Chinese New Year and entered the closed training camp, and the competition in the Paris Olympic cycle was officially launched.
Although the national table tennis participated in the WTT Macau Championships in early January, this tournament only had prize money and no world ranking points. The Singapore WTT Grand Slam champion will have 2,000 points, which will have a big impact on the current world ranking points, especially the women's world ranking. At present, Sun Yingsha of national table tennis ranks first in the world, her points are 7580 points, Chen Meng is in second place with 7175 points, Japan's Ito Mimachi is in third place with 5216 points, and Wang Manyu of national table tennis is in fourth place with 5011 points. Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng's world first battle continues, and Wang Manyu is also expected to surpass Ito after the WTT Grand Slam tournament in Singapore.