After the Spring Festival holiday, the members of the national table tennis team gathered together to go to Sanya, Hainan for a new round of closed training, and this time the closed training was to prepare for the Singapore Grand Slam tournament that will start in March and the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships in April. The training women's team is really two eyes, not only the three golden flowers Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, but also the veteran Liu Shiwen is also among them.
In the Opening Year's Battle of Macao Championships, Liu Shiwen, who disappeared for a long time, made a comeback, and her efforts surprised many people, defeating a number of strong teammates in succession on the field, thus also proving for herself that the veteran "sword is not old" to everyone, and this time Liu Shiwen also went to Hainan with the main team of national table tennis to train, does it mean that Liu Shiwen also wants to participate in the upcoming WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament?
Because Liu Shiwen gradually faded out of the fans' sight after the Tokyo Olympic Games, many events were absent, resulting in a sharp decline in the world ranking, from the previous world ranking 7th to the current world ranking seventeenth (the Macao Championship does not record points rewards, so although Liu Shiwen's best results can not improve the ranking), this is a big blow to Liu Shiwen, the sharp decline in ranking, it is difficult to accept for any athlete, At present, what Liu Shiwen can do is to participate in every competition held next.
According to the news given by the WTT World Table Tennis Federation, the qualification for this Singapore Grand Slam event must meet the top 64 in the singles world ranking, the top 24 in the doubles world ranking, and the mixed doubles is 16th, and the competition has five events, namely men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles, the competition time is March 7, the award of this event is also very rich, the total prize money is as high as 2 million US dollars, including 100,000 US dollars for singles champions, and there are 2000 points rewards, which is for any one person, It's all a great temptation.
And Liu Shiwen's strength in the Macau Championships to show everyone obviously has the opportunity to compete for the Singapore Grand Slam women's singles championship, and Liu Shiwen is currently ranked seventeenth in the world, has met the requirements of the world ranking of the top 64 set by the Table Tennis Federation, then this time Liu Shiwen will face the opponent will no longer be those familiar teammates during the Macau Championships, Singapore tournament Japan's Ito Mimako will also participate, there are many foreign players, can Liu Shiwen highlight the siege to win this women's singles championship?
It is worth mentioning that Chen Xingtong, who did not participate in the WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament, was sent to Oman by the national table tennis coaching staff to participate in the Open Tournament in order to exercise her ability to fight alone.