National table tennis officially announced the Houston World Table Tennis Championships lineup, the National Games men's singles champion Fan Zhendong and the world's number one Chen Meng led the men's and women's team participation list, but surprisingly in the National Games in a state of the day Ma Long and Olympic champion Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen did not appear in the list of participants, just when the national table tennis announced the participation list, Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen almost at the same time on social media posted news, Claiming that he offered to the team not to participate in the upcoming Houston World Table Tennis Championships, which was also confirmed by the head coach of the men's team Qin Zhijian, Qin Zhijian said in an interview that due to the short interval between the Olympic Games, the National Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, Ma Long and Xu Xin both offered not to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships, and the veterans did not participate in this competition also gave young players the opportunity, and world champion Lin Gaoyuan and Zhou Qihao, who had made significant progress in the past year, were shortlisted for the men's singles list of the World Table Tennis Championships.
The list of participants in the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships is as follows:
Men's Singles: Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Zhou Qihao
Men's Doubles: Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan / Liang Jingkun
Women's Singles: Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, Wang Yidi
Women's Doubles: Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu, Chen Meng / Qian Tianyi
Mixed Doubles: Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha, Lin Gaoyuan / Wang Manyu
It can also be seen from the big list that the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships National Table Tennis sent five male players and six female players to participate, the five players of the men's team were Fan Zhendong, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun and Zhou Qihao, of which Wang Chuqin and Lin Gaoyuan had two more than three positions, Wang Chuqin's performance in the recent year was indeed obvious, but in the recent National Games and the Table Tennis Super League, Wang Chuqin's performance was not good, especially in the Table Tennis Super League Finals, he lost 19 points in the match against Zhou Qihao. This roller coaster performance has not affected his reuse by the national team coaching staff, and this time he will participate in the men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles events. If Wang Chuqin holds three positions because he has the potential to become the future leader of the national table tennis men's team, then another "controversial" player, Lin Gaoyuan, is in three positions.
Lin Gaoyuan has performed quite badly in the past year or so, the world ranking has also slipped from the fourth place to the current seventh place, he also once lost the world table tennis championship men's team roster, at last month's National Games, Lin Gaoyuan men's singles stopped in the first round, the men's doubles and Fan Zhendong partner did not get a medal, the mixed doubles game was "disliked" by teammates, the table tennis super league held at the beginning of this month, Lin Gaoyuan performed equally badly, I thought Lin Gaoyuan would gradually fade to the first line of the national table tennis men's team, did not expect lin Gaoyuan not only not to be abandoned, but also to be reused, In the World Table Tennis Championships, he will wear three positions, and the explanation given by head coach Qin Zhijian is that Lin Gaoyuan performed well in the first two World Table Tennis Championships and guarded his own line. With Ma Long taking the initiative to "let Xian", the five male players participating in the World Table Tennis Championships have not won the World Table Tennis Championships, the highest achievement is that Fan Zhendong once reached the men's singles final four years ago, it can be said that the competition for the men's singles championship will be very fierce, the national table tennis men's team players are not only facing the challenge of foreign high-level athletes, internal competition will be inevitable, in the absence of Ma Long, the new "five tigers" who can get the weight of the World Table Tennis Men's Singles Championship will attract everyone's attention, from the recent period of competition, All five players in national table tennis have the hope of getting involved in the championship.
The six players of the women's team are Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong and Qian Tianyi, of which Qian Tianyi will partner with Chen Meng to participate in the women's doubles competition, and the men's team is facing a situation of "green and yellow", the national table tennis women's team is basically completed, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha will be the core members of the national team in the next Olympic cycle, this Houston World Table Tennis Championships, the two have been reused by the coaching staff, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu will participate in three sports competitions in this competition, and the two of them have both cooperation and competition in this World Table Tennis Championships. They will join forces in the women's doubles competition, and as the defending champions of the World Table Tennis Championships in this project, Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu will definitely go all out to defend the title. In addition, the two will compete in the women's singles and mixed doubles events, sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, who do not have a world championship, will definitely be particularly eager for the women's singles gold medal, as the future leader of the national table tennis women's team, who will take the lead in winning the women's singles championship on the stage of the World Table Tennis Championships, who will have the opportunity to become the "future sister" of the national table tennis women's team. Of course, this is not to say that the World Table Tennis Women's Singles Champion will necessarily be produced between Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, the world's first Chen Meng is still one World Table Tennis Women's Singles Champion from the "Grand Slam", she is the biggest favorite to win the project.