The 2022 WTT Singapore Grand Slam will be held from 7-20 March, with 18 days to go. The national table tennis team will send 12 people to participate in the first WTT Grand Slam, the male table tennis players are Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin, and the female table tennis players are Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, Liu Shiwen. Three Olympic veterans will have the opportunity to compete.
The national table tennis attaches great importance to this event and sends the strongest squad. Grand Slam prize money is high, points are high, and national table tennis is naturally valued. Foreign associations also attach great importance to this event, and Japanese, Korean, German and other associations will also send team members to participate.
Recently, the official website of the WTT World Table Tennis Federation announced the list of the top ten seeds, and the world's top players are basically in the list. There was a lot of enthusiasm for the event.
For example, the top 10 seeds in men's singles are as follows: 1 Fan Zhendong, 2 Ma Long, 3 Hugo Calderano, 4 Zhang Benzhihe, 5 Liang Jingkun, 6 Ochalov, 7 Lin Yunru, 8 Ball, 9 Xu Xin, 10 Lin Gaoyuan. This seeded player ranking exactly matches the latest world ranking, which determines the seed ranking of this Grand Slam.
It can be seen that the world ranking is still very important. That's why other top players are participating in this event. If you don't participate, you won't be able to earn points, your world ranking will be lowered, and you may not be able to participate in some important events. Even if you can participate, the signing will not be very good, and it is difficult to achieve good results. The World Table Tennis Federation intends to increase the number of points for the WTT Grand Slam, and the purpose has been achieved.
Chinese men's table tennis players have 5 players in the top ten seeds of men's singles, and they are still the main force. Only Wang Chuqin did not enter the top ten seeds, and his world ranking is 12th. There is only one member of the Japanese table tennis team in the top ten, two in German table tennis, one in Han table tennis, and Brazil's Hugo in third place and will occupy a favorable signing position. I don't know what kind of ranking I can achieve in this competition.
The top 10 seeds in the women's singles are as follows: 1 Sun Yingsha, 2 Chen Meng, 3 Ito Mimachi, 4 Wang Manyu, 5 Wang Yidi, 6 Hayata Xina, 7 Du Kaixuan, 8 Ishikawa Yoshijun, 9 Feng Tianwei, 10 Tianxi. The women's singles is also based on the world ranking to determine the seed ranking. Only 4 Chinese women's table tennis players entered the top ten, and Chen Xingtong and Liu Shiwen did not enter the top ten due to the low world ranking. Three people in the japanese table tennis also entered the top ten seeds, and the competition for women's table tennis will be very large.
China will send three pairs of players to participate in the doubles competition, namely the women's doubles team Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu, the men's doubles team Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin, and the mixed doubles combination Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha.
In the women's doubles seed rankings, China's Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu ranked first, Japan's Ito Mimachi / Hayata Hina ranked second, and Puerto Rico's Diaz sisters actually ranked third, which I really didn't expect. Ni Xialian, 59, participated in the competition. She paired her teammates in doubles and finished fifth in the women's doubles seed. Han table tennis players Tian Zhixi / Liang Xiayin ranked seventh.
Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin competed in the men's doubles competition, and they only ranked 8th in the men's doubles seed rankings.
Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin competed in mixed doubles competitions. They are second in the mixed doubles seed rankings. They won the mixed doubles gold medal at last year's World Table Tennis Championships in Houston. At the top of the list are Lin Yunru/Zheng Yijing. Japanese table tennis Zhang Benji and / Hayata Hina ranked fourth.
WTT Singapore Grand Slam is the first Grand Slam organized by the World Table Tennis Federation and will provide a prize of US$2 million, and the men's and women's singles champions each have a prize of US$100,000, which is equivalent to RMB 630,000, and the prize amount is very high. The Chinese women's football team won the Asian Cup, and some players are not estimated to have so much bonuses. The problem was that they waited 16 years to win the title again. The singles champion also has 2,000 points. This is a game that the majority of table tennis masters dare not pay attention to. In the absence of such an event, the world rankings are likely to fall a lot.
Finally, looking forward to the wonderful competition, the national table tennis players achieved good results. Xiangchu Fengyun will share the live game in time, so stay tuned!