The first leg of the Year of the National Table Tennis Tiger, the WTT Oman Race, is about to kick off at the end of February, but not long ago, Lin Yunru, the strongest male player in the foreign association who signed up for this event and a talented young player in Chinese Taipei (formerly the No. 2 seed player), suddenly decided to withdraw from the competition, which also made fans and friends puzzled.
With the abandonment of Lin Yunru, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan, the two world champions of national table tennis, have become the biggest favorites to win the championship, and they are very hopeful that they will meet the men's singles final, and look forward to them seizing this opportunity!
Lin Yunru is a very familiar table tennis player, born in 2001, his strength is very good, he has defeated Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin and other national team world champions, but also won Zhang Benzhihe and other foreign association masters, ranking in the world's top ten, won the World Cup men's singles bronze medal, entered the Olympic men's singles final four.
Because the level of WTT Oman is not high, so there are not many masters registered by the foreign association, so Lin Yunru has become the object of strict defense of national table tennis, and everyone thought that he would stage a peak duel with Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan, and as a result, his name has been crossed out in the list of participants:
Since Lin Yunru was previously a No. 2 seeded player, his absence also allowed No. 3 Lin Gaoyuan to rise one place, so that he could be separated from No. 1 seed Liang Jingkun in the men's singles division: unless it was the final, they would not meet in this project. From the perspective of overall strength, the two also have the possibility of meeting the final.
As for another national table tennis world champion Wang Chuqin is still in a state of uncertainty, if he can join, not only can challenge Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, but also impact the final championship, worthy of everyone's attention.
There are currently two speculations about the reason for Lin Yunru's withdrawal: one is that the first WTT Grand Slam tournament will be held in March, so he wants to concentrate on preparing for this tournament; the other is that it may conflict with Lin Yunru's training and game time in the Russian league, so he has to make adjustments.
Before that, Lin Yunru had changed coaches and hired former national table tennis Olympic champion Wei Qingguang (now naturalized in Japan, renamed Wei Guan Qingguang) to guide him, whether this matter has anything to do with his retirement We don't know, we still sit together and wait for the WTT Grand Slam list to come out!