The first game of the 2022 Tiger Year of the National Table Tennis - WTT Oman Competition is about to kick off at the end of February, not long ago, fans received a good news: as of February 14, the International Table Tennis Federation has added 4 more places to the Chinese team, they are Wang Chuqin, Lin Shidong, Zhang Yudong, Yuan Licen: for the 16-year-old young player Lin Shidong and others, it is really an excellent exercise opportunity.
At present, 27 members of the Chinese team have qualified for the competition, congratulations! At the same time, the two major rivals of national table tennis, Lin Yunru (the third place in the Men's Singles world cup) and Moregold (the runner-up in the men's singles of the World Table Tennis Championships), withdrew from the competition, which also made the suspense of competition drop a lot.
Since the focus of sports in February is on the Winter Olympics, there are no regular events in table tennis. However, according to the arrangement, on February 27, oman is about to make a comeback, and the Chinese team registered as many as 23 athletes at the beginning, including world champions Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Yu Ziyang and Chen Xingtong.
Relatively speaking, the opponents of the foreign association are not very strong, Lin Yunru, Zhuang Zhiyuan and Zheng Yijing of the Chinese Taipei team, The Swedish youngster Moregold, the French star Simon, the Nigerian player Aruna, and the Puerto Rican player Diaz are more threatening athletes.
However, before the competition began, Lin Yunru suddenly announced his retirement, and recently hired former national table tennis Olympic champion Wei Qingguang (now known as Wei Guan Qingguang) as his coach, which seems to have the intention of immersing himself in retreat cultivation. However, it has also been pointed out that Lin Yunru may have participated in Oman because he had a task in the Russian league, and the specific situation still needs to be examined.
After Lin Yunru retired, Wang Chuqin and Lin Shidong on the national team side got new opportunities - these two young players were born in 2000 and 2005 respectively, and they are the hope stars of the two age groups of the men's team, and it is naturally better to get more foreign combat exercises, especially like Lin Shidong, although he has defeated Fan Zhendong and Lin Gaoyuan in the team, but the experience in foreign wars is very small, and this time he is facing a test!
At present, 3 of the top 4 seeded players in the Oman men's singles are Chinese team athletes, namely No. 1 Liang Jingkun, No. 2 Lin Gaoyuan, No. 4 Wang Chuqin, such a strong lineup will undoubtedly make all foreign association teams "scared"; and the national table tennis women's singles only Chen Xingtong ranks in the top 4 (currently the No. 3 seed), but the foreign association opponents are weak, and the competition is not as fierce as the men's singles.
After the Oman Race, the national table tennis will usher in a more grand WTT Grand Slam Tournament (held in Singapore), when Zhang Benzhihe, Ito Mimachi, Bohr, Ocharov and other people will participate, looking forward to the Chinese team athletes can have a good play, win these two games: come on, everyone!