With about 20 days left before the Singapore Grand Slam tournament, the national table tennis coaching staff officially announced the list of participants. There are a total of 5 events in this Grand Slam event, all of which are participated in the national table tennis competition, and 12 main players are all out to compete for the championship of the first Grand Slam event. The men's singles project sent Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin and Lin Gaoyuan to six main players.
Since the Tokyo cycle, the above 6 players have been the absolute main force of national table tennis. In order to train the Mesozoic players at the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, Malone and Xu Xin gave up participating. According to the actual situation, the coaching staff of this Grand Slam tournament let Ma Long and Xu Xin play in international competitions again. As a former Grand Slam winner, Malone now reforms table tennis competitions by the ITTF and has the opportunity to impact the Grand Slam honors of the new era. It's just that the world's first Fan Zhendong will be its biggest obstacle, after all, Fan Zhendong also wants to win the men's singles championship.
The competition of the national table tennis men's team is very fierce, even if Ma Long and Xu Xin do not participate in the Paris Olympic Games, the remaining 4 main players also need to compete for three places, and it is inevitable that one of them will not be able to participate in the Olympic Games. Fan Zhendong's participation in the Paris Olympic Games is a foregone conclusion, and Wang Chuqin can also lock in the Olympic seat with his mixed doubles record, leaving only Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan to compete bitterly. The gold content of Grand Slam events is very high, which directly affects the competitive situation of the men's team. However, one thing is also certain, Zhou Qihao did not succeed in the position, otherwise he would not have missed the Singapore competition.
The women's singles project sent Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Liu Shiwen, Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong to 6 main players. Since Ding Ning and Zhu Yuling left the national team, Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong successfully ascended to the throne and also participated in the World Table Tennis Championships. Being able to participate in a Grand Slam tournament this time once again proves the status of the two people today. Sun Yingsha recently won the world's first throne, facing Olympic singles champion Chen Meng and world table tennis singles champion Wang Manyu, how to win the women's singles title is extremely difficult.
Moreover, Sun Yingsha has not yet been in charge of coaching, which seriously affects daily training, and the coaching team needs to determine Sun Yingsha's supervisor coach as soon as possible. As for veteran Liu Shiwen, being able to participate in the Singapore competition is already commendable, and the results are irrelevant. To say that the two most tired players are Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin. The duo not only compete in singles, but also in doubles and mixed doubles. In the men's doubles event, Wang Chuqin partnered fan Zhendong to play, no longer partnering big brother Ma Long, but also preparing for the Paris Olympic Games. In the women's doubles event, Sun Yingsha partnered with Wang Manyu to play, as the defending champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, there was not much of a problem in winning the women's doubles championship.
The mixed doubles event is the World Table Tennis Champion team Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha. Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin are gradually moving away from the mixed doubles arena, and given the strength shown by Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, as well as the status of the world table tennis champion, the Paris cycle is bound to be the number one mixed doubles combination. Moreover, the national table tennis of the Tokyo Olympic Games did not win the mixed doubles championship, and the Paris Olympic Games must go all out to impact the gold medal, and the burden on Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin is not light.