Starting from March 7, the first leg of the ITTF WTT Grand Slam will start in Singapore, for this event, the national table tennis attaches great importance to it, will send a full main team, Liu Guoliang personally serves as the team leader, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen and other veterans will also return to the international competition field again.
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In this Grand Slam tournament, the complete lineup of national table tennis is as follows:
Men's singles 6: Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin
Women's singles 6 people: Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, Liu Shiwen
Men's Doubles: Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin
Women's Doubles: Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu
Mixed Doubles: Wang Chuqin /Sun Yingsha
Wang Chuqin
It can be seen that Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, who have returned to the international arena again, have only participated in singles events and have not registered for doubles. Since the doubles associations can only register for one team to participate in the combination, the national table tennis is also the strongest combination with young and cultivation potential to participate.
Previously, the Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen combination, which won the mixed doubles championship of the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships and participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games, won the Olympic silver medal, and then although she also won the National Games championship, she participated in the WTT Macau Championship and won the championship. However, in the future international competitions, especially international competitions, the opportunities for the two to participate have been very slim.
Xu Xin Liu Shiwen
With the increase of age, the decline of state and physical fitness, Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen, a mixed doubles combination known as "Xinwen Simulcast, Never Stop Broadcasting", may also end here, which is lamentable. The duo had a brilliant record in international competitions, and the two veterans once gave up their singles for the sake of mixed doubles, but in the most important Tokyo Olympic final, they lost to the Mizutani Hayabusa/Ito Mishimasa duo, leaving eternal regrets.
In the future, the mixed doubles combination that the national table tennis will mainly promote should be the Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha combination that won the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, and they are also likely to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Mixed doubles top five seeds
In this Singapore Grand Slam tournament, the combination of Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha is not the number one seed, but the combination of Lin Yunru / Zheng Yijing of Chinese Taipei. In the case that each association can only register for a pair of combinations, it is difficult for the national table tennis to win the championship.
Sun Yingsha
In addition, the Combination of Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu is also the champion combination of the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, the two are actually strong in the women's singles field, and they are also tacit understanding in the women's doubles, and may also be the main training combination of national table tennis in the future, and the national table tennis combination is also the number one seed of this tournament.
Top five seeds in the women's doubles world
However, Japan's Ito Mimachi / Hayata Hina will most likely become the strongest opponent in this Olympic cycle, in addition to Ito's strength is still strong, the rapid upward momentum of Hayata Hina is also a good player in the doubles field, in Japan's national championships won the women's doubles, mixed doubles two championships, the future will be Japan's only second or even more than it is the threat of Ito.
In the men's doubles arena, the national table tennis sent a Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin combination, which is more surprising, and there may be a certain possibility of trying a chemical reaction, because this pair is not among the top five seeds in this Grand Slam tournament.
Men's Doubles Top Five Seeds
Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin combination can play what is more worth looking forward to, if you can win the championship is the best, if not, I think the national table tennis will still be changed and adjusted, in the Paris Olympic cycle of the men's team combination, the veteran Ma Long may still be a possible choice, after all, Ma Long's doubles ability is still one of the best.
Fan Zhendong
Looking at the list of national table tennis participating in the Singapore Grand Slam this time, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha are each 3 events, these two may have entered the lineup deployment of the national table tennis coaching staff on the Paris Olympic Games in advance, after all, this Olympic cycle is very short, coupled with external unstable factors, national table tennis also needs to give potential candidates more opportunities to participate in international competitions.
There is no doubt that Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha are basically candidates for the future national table tennis to focus on training at the doubles level, while the men's singles is still Fan Zhendong's main player, and the women's singles are Chen Meng and Wang Manyu Zhenshou.