The first WTT Singapore Grand Slam will start on the 7th of next month, and at present, the WTT World Table Tennis Federation has also announced the candidates for each individual event.
The WTT Singapore Grand Slam is divided into five individual events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.
In the men's singles, the Chinese team sent six people, including Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan, to participate, in addition to Japan's Zhang Benzhihe and Niwa Takashi.
In the women's singles, the Chinese team sent six players, including Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong and Liu Shiwen, and Japan's Ito Mimachi, Ishikawa Yoshinori, Hina Hayata, and Miyu Hirano will also participate.
In the men's doubles, the Chinese team sent the Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin pair, while the Japanese team sent the Uda Yukiya / Togami Hayabusa combination.
In women's doubles, the Chinese team sent the World Table Tennis Champion Duo of Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu, and the Japanese team sent the World Table Tennis Championships runner-up combination of Ito Mimachi / Hayata Shina.
In mixed doubles, the Chinese team sent the World Table Tennis Champion Duo of Sun Yingsha /Wang Chuqin, while the Japanese team sent Zhang Benzhi and /Hayata Xina, the runner-up pair of the World Table Tennis Championships.
In fact, we can roughly see from the above lineup that the competition between the Chinese and Japanese teams in the Paris Olympic Games has begun!
First of all, from the mixed doubles point of view, this WTT Singapore Grand Slam, the Chinese team abandoned Liu Shiwen Xu Xin, a pair that was once called the strongest mixed doubles pair in the world by Liu Guoliang.
And this also means that Liu Shiwen Xu Xin's mixed doubles pair has been thoroughly completed by Liu Guoliang, which will become history from now on, and it is almost unlikely that he will appear in the competition in the future.
This is a big regret for Liu Shiwen Xu Xin, after all, in the Tokyo Olympic Games, he was tragically reversed by Japan's Ito Mizutani Hayabusa and did not have the opportunity to mix doubles, which also made Liu Guoliang's employment strategy questionable.
In fact, Liu Shiwen Xu Xin as early as before the Tokyo Olympic Games, in terms of strength and status has declined significantly, in the simulation match last May, the two mixed doubles even missed the top four, when there were many fans calling for the replacement of Liu Shiwen Xu Xin this mixed doubles combination, but Liu Guoliang still insisted that Liu Shiwen Xu Xin has the strength to win the championship in the Tokyo Olympic Games.
As a result, after being punched in the face by reality, it once again confirmed that Liu Shiwen Xu Xin's ability to resist pressure in the competition was too poor to take on a heavy responsibility in a competition like the Olympic Games.
And this is also the most fundamental reason why Liu Guoliang gave up Liu Shiwen Xu Xin.
In the Paris Olympic cycle, after Liu Guoliang abandoned Liu Shiwen Xu Xin, he turned to cultivating Sun Yingsha Wang Chuqin, a mixed doubles combination, and Sun Yingsha Wang Chuqin also won the championship in last year's Houston World Table Tennis Championships, it can be seen that the current Sun Yingsha Wang Chuqin combination is likely to appear in the mixed doubles field of the Paris Olympic Games.
In Japan, with the retirement of Mizutani Hayabusa, ito Mizutani Hayabusa's mixed doubles pair was also dissolved, and Ito made it clear that he would not participate in mixed doubles competitions in the future, first, because he could no longer find a partner like Mizutani Hayabusa, and the other himself had won the mixed doubles championship in the Olympic Games, completed his highest goal, and would focus his main energy on singles and women's doubles in the future.
In this case, the Japanese team is now starting to introduce the combination of Zhang Benzhi and /Hayata Hina, and this pair is also quite strong, successfully reaching the final at the Houston World Table Tennis Championships.
Here to focus on Hayata Hina, although Hayata Shina only qualified for the P card at the Tokyo Olympics, but after the Tokyo Olympics, Hayata Hina's progress is still very obvious, in last year's Asian Championships, Hayata Hina alone won three gold medals in women's singles, women's team and mixed doubles!
Moreover, Hayata Hina is similar in age to Sun Yingsha Ito Mimachi, has a good strength, it is foreseeable that in the future, it is very likely that she will become a strong opponent of Chinese women's table tennis together with Ito Mimachi.
From the perspective of men's doubles, the national table tennis sent a pair of Fan Zhendong Wang Chuqin this time, and Xu Xin, who was once a doubles player, was abandoned, which also means that Liu Guoliang has completely abandoned Xu Xin's competition for the Paris Olympics. However, he attached great importance to the young general Wang Chuqin.
The Japanese team of Yukiya Utada / Hayabusa Toue, playing in this Singapore Grand Slam, also marks that Japan has also increased the training of young players in the men's team, and the two are expected to join forces with Zhang Benzhihe in the Paris Olympic Games.
Of course, this is only from the analysis of the lineup of this station, the future does not rule out that there will be other players rushing up, just like in 2018, who would have thought that Sun Yingsha would qualify for the Tokyo Olympics in singles?