Chinese table tennis is conducting closed training in Lingshui, Hainan, and at noon today, 15 men and 12 women from 15 men and 12 women to participate in the WTT Regular Challenge Oman Station from February 27 to March 5 set off from Guangzhou to make final preparations. However, just this afternoon, the International Table Tennis Federation announced that the 2022 Chengdu Team World Table Tennis Championships, which was scheduled to be held in April, was postponed to the end of September.
The Chengdu Team World Table Tennis Championships were originally scheduled to be held from April 17 to 26, but due to the current situation, the ITTF, after consultation with the Chinese Table Tennis Association and the relevant departments of Chengdu, decided to postpone the competition to September 30-October 9 this year, and the competition was postponed for five months. Originally, the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships were the most important event in the first half of the year, but now postponed to the second half of the year, which is close to the time of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. Hangzhou Asian Games table tennis competition will be held on September 12-19, after the end of 10 days, Chengdu team world table tennis championships will begin, the national table tennis players will face the test of continuous combat, what kind of lineup the coaching team will send is worth the expectations of the outside world.
At the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, the national table tennis snow hid the absolute main forces Ma Long, Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen, and sent young players such as Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, and Wang Chuqin to play. This year's Asian Games, I don't know if the national table tennis coaching staff will continue to train new people. At present, the national table tennis men's team has Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin, six main players, the women's team has Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Liu Shiwen four Olympic champions and Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, two rising stars, in addition to the national table tennis there are the main forces Zhou Qihao, Zhao Zihao, He Zhuojia, Qian Tianyi and the younger Lin Shidong, Ku Man and other people, how will the coaching team line up?
The 2020 Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships were finally cancelled after three postponements. The Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships were originally scheduled to be held from March 22 to 29, 2020, the first postponement was postponed to June 21-28, the second postponement was postponed to September 27-October 4, and the third postponement was postponed to February 2021, but the fate of being cancelled was not avoided. In early 2020, the national table tennis announced the list of participants in the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, Fan Zhendong and Zhu Yuling won the men's and women's singles championships in the direct competition, taking the lead in getting the tickets for the World Table Tennis Championships, and then the national table tennis announced the participation list, and Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Ding Ning, and Liu Shiwen were qualified.
However, unfortunately, due to the cancellation of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, Ding Ning announced his retirement in September last year, and Zhu Yuling underwent surgery due to illness and is still in the postoperative recovery period and cannot return to the arena to participate in the competition. This time, the Chengdu Team World Table Tennis Championships were postponed, which may be an opportunity for Zhu Yuling, a native of Sichuan, who was not expected to participate in the competition, and may be able to return to the field at her doorstep.