In addition to the WTT Macau Star Challenge before the Chinese New Year, the Oman Challenge is their first international event in 2022. From a certain point of view, although several major players of the national table tennis team, such as Liu Shiwen, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi of the women's team, and Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin of the men's team will be absent, there are still main players like Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan and Chen Xingtong who will participate in the Oman Challenge.
However, since the list of individual entrants of the Oman Challenge is constantly changing, at each time node, you will also see the list in different forms. However, according to the latest changes, we can solve some of the new thinking of the national table tennis coaching staff in the employment of personnel. For example, in this Oman Challenge, Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin became doubles partners in the men's doubles, while the other two doubles pairs were Xu Yingbin/Yao Wei and Xiang Peng/Lin Shidong. Lin Gaoyuan became the only player among the main players participating in the national table tennis competition to be absent in the men's doubles competition. In fact, from the perspective of this arrangement of the coaching staff, we will find that as the two key players in the Paris Olympic cycle, Wang Chuqin and Liang Jingkun are important contenders for the Olympic team competition, so for these two players, the possibility of the two sides forming a partnership to play the game is extremely high. Coupled with the format of the Olympic Games itself, it is also required to put both sides at the front in the team competition, and the first singles to appear next must be after their two teammates. After Fan Zhendong's position as the first main force of the men's table tennis team became more and more stable, how Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin improved their tacit understanding of each other through various open or sub-station competitions and strived for better results in the competition was very important. Therefore, the national table tennis coaching team directly excluded Lin Gaoyuan from the lineups of both sides, which also shows to some extent that in the competition for Olympic quotas, he is still at a disadvantage compared to Wang Chuqin Liang Jingkun.
Another point is that from the perspective of the membership arrangement of the other two pairs of men's doubles groups, we can also see a change in the thinking of the national table tennis coaching staff. For the 18-year-old age group, the national table tennis actually attaches great importance to the progress and development of small players at this age, and pays great attention to how to give them the opportunity to enhance their combat effectiveness through the tempering of the world arena, and also lays out the 2028 Olympic Games in advance. Xiang Peng and Lin Shidong are undoubtedly the seedlings cultivated in advance for this Olympic cycle, and it is indeed a wise move for them to start partnering earlier. And Yao Wei and Xu Yingbin, one is also from Heilongjiang, know each other very well, in addition to the previous cooperation is also more tacit understanding, and got good results in the National Games, plus Xu Yingbin's recent competition in Macau, there is also a good performance, so the national table tennis coaching team obviously gave more full trust to these two boys, and arranged them and Xiang Peng and Lin Shidong into the men's doubles lineup.
Of course, from the arrangement of the mixed doubles combination, it also reflects the intentions of the coaching staff. After Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu gradually stabilized in the core main position of the national table tennis women's team, in addition to them, whether there are other groups in the national table tennis team that stand up to play mixed doubles and achieve outstanding players in this project are worth considering. Obviously, the combination of Chen Xingtong and Wang Chuqin is one of them. The national table tennis let these two people re-partner and continue the front edge, which also shows that Chen Xingtong was not completely abandoned by the national table tennis coaching team in the selection of the Olympic lineup, or wanted to see her potential in each individual event to ensure that the competitiveness of the first main layer of national table tennis has not decreased. The youngster Kuman also had a good result in the Macau Competition, and Fan Zhendong also reached the final. This also proves Kuman's personal ability from one side, so the national table tennis coaching staff in the mixed doubles only arrange two pairs of players to participate, in addition to the combination of Wang Chuqin and Chen Xingtong, only arranged Liang Jingkun and Ku man's partner, which also allows the 18-year-old young player to have a better platform to compete with her sisters who are a few years older than her, in the future arena, it is not ruled out that Ku Man will become the new Wang Manyu or the new Sun Yingsha, and enter the main layer of the national table tennis in advance. Let us also keep an eye on the Oman Challenge and look forward to the players of the national table tennis team to play well in the game.