On February 18, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation officially announced the list of athletes for the March WTT Qatar Challenge, and its Chinese table tennis has as many as 31 people on the list, including Zhou Qihao, Yu Ziyang, He Zhuojia and many post-00s rising stars - although the core main players are absent, such a huge lineup still makes fans and friends feel happy:
The young players and non-main players have been given another valuable opportunity to exercise in foreign combat, which is amazing! Kudos to Liu Guoliang and the coaching staff for their decision!
According to the information released by the International Table Tennis Federation earlier, after the End of the Winter Olympics, the table tennis arena will be fully restarted at the end of February, and March is even more lively, with WTT Oman, Grand Slam and Qatar following, which also provides more stages for athletes around the world to show.
For the talented Chinese team, it is not necessary to grasp the eyebrow beard, so for different levels of competition, Liu Guoliang and the coaching team have also made different arrangements and deployments.
At the end of February, led by a part of the world champions (Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Chen Xingtong), a total of 28 people competed in WTT Oman; in March, the WTT Grand Slam, 12 core main players of national table tennis were Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Xu Xin, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, and Liu Shiwen.
As for the WTT Qatar competition, it was mainly reserved for 31 young players and non-main athletes, while the 13 post-00s rising stars also gave up the youth events held in Qatar at the same time.
According to the information on the official website, the national table tennis players who are currently registered for the WTT Qatar Race are as follows:
Men's team: Zhou Qihao, Zhao Zihao, Yu Ziyang, Liu Dingshuo, Xue Fei, Sun Wen, Xiang Peng, Lin Shidong, Zhang Yudong, Yuan Licen, Cao Wei, Zeng Beixun, Chen Yuanyu, Huang Youzheng, Xu Yingbin, Xu Haidong, Wang Tingyu, Liang Guodong; Women's team: Qian Tianyi, He Zhuojia, Liu Weishan, Zhang Rui, Ku Man, Chen Yi, Shi Xunyao, Qi Fei, Zhu Sibing, Qin Yuxuan, Fan Siqi, Yang Huijing, Zhong Geman.
Most of the above athletes are not the top five main players in the team, among which Yu Ziyang once joined the main ranks and won the World Cup team championship, but that was 3 years ago; and Zhou Qihao won the men's singles qualification of the Houston World Table Tennis Championships last year, but did not play results, and it is difficult to say that he can stabilize his position now.
As for the young players, in recent years, almost all the youngest people who have been famous have been on the list, and the youngest Zhonggeman was born in 2006, and this exercise opportunity is very rare!
Friends who pay attention to table tennis know that in recent years, in order to cultivate and screen new stars, the Japanese team has organized "human sea tactics" in international competitions many times to let their young players go to the international arena for exercise, and many Chinese fans also hope that Liu Guoliang and the coaching staff will emulate this practice and give the young generals more opportunities.
Of course, the development of young people will certainly not be smooth, and foreign wars are likely to face the risk of losing, but this is also the price of growth, so we don't have to blame them for being perfect - strive for good results, but don't be discouraged if you lose, expect everyone to get exercise: come on, guys!