WTT Regular Season Challenge Oman will be held from February 27 to March 5, and today the national table tennis players who will compete in this station will depart from Guangzhou to the competition site. Itachi Federation officials thoughtfully posted the departure photos of some members of the national table tennis team, the main team members Wang Chuqin and Lin Gaoyuan did not appear, and the national table tennis also began a journey of more than a month, and the entire march of the national table tennis will be spent in the competition.
This competition is the first race to participate in the national table tennis closed training, the men's team sent 15 people, the women's team sent 12 people to play, the men's singles, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan became the top two seeds, Wang Chuqin, Zhao Zihao, Lin Shidong directly entered the main competition, Zhou Qihao, Xiang Peng, Xu Yingbin, Xu Haidong, Yu Ziyang, Yuan Fei, Liu Dingshuo, Zhang Yudong, Yuan Licen and Cao Wei will start from the qualifiers, women's singles Chen Xingtong, He Zhuojia, Qian Tianyi, Liu Weishan entered the main tournament, Zhang Rui, Fan Siqi, Yang Huijing, Ku Man, Chen Yi, Shi Xunyao, Qi Fei, Zhu Sibing needs to participate in the qualification round. Liang Jingkun/Wang Chuqin became the top seed in men's doubles, Cao Wei/Xu Yingbin, Xiang Peng/Lin Shidong needed to participate in the qualifiers, and the national table tennis three-pair women's doubles duo Qian Tianyi/Chen Xingtong, Liu Weishan/He Zhuojia, and Ku Man/Zhang Rui all needed to participate in the qualifiers. The mixed doubles national table tennis sent Liang Jingkun/ Kuo Man, Wang Chuqin / Chen Xingtong to participate, and the four of them will also fight in the third line in this competition.
When the national table tennis set off to participate in the WTT regular challenge oman station, the four players of the national table tennis also received a good news, among which last year's World Youth Championships men's and women's singles champions Xiang Peng and Kuman won the WTT Singapore Grand Slam qualifying wild card, He Zhuojia won the regular wild card, and the 17-year-old rookie Lin Shidong will also directly participate in the main tournament. Lin Shidong, who was waiting for the airport, learned that he could participate in the first WTT Grand Slam event, and bluntly said that he was very surprised, excited and looking forward to it, and would strive to play his highest level in this competition, playing the morale and vitality of young athletes.
Entering the Paris Olympic cycle, the national table tennis continues to pay attention to the construction of the echelon, Lin Shidong is a supernova emerging from the men's team, 17-year-old he is known as "little fat", in July 2020 the national table tennis in Hainan for intensive training, 15-year-old Lin Shidong won the national table tennis trial training opportunity, in September of that year with the national youth championship men's singles champion results into the national table tennis second team, last year's national table tennis Olympic simulation, he beat Xu Xin a lot of attention. This year, Lin Shidong was valued by the national table tennis coaching team, in January's WTT Macau Championships, he participated in the men's singles and mixed doubles, and now, he will continue to play in the WTT Oman Challenge, WTT Singapore Grand Slam And the subsequent WTT Doha Star Challenge, as if becoming a young player cultivated by the national table tennis coaching team, looking forward to bringing more surprises to Xiao Fat.