On March 7, the Singapore Grand Slam tournament opened, the tournament organizers awarded wild cards to the members of the 3 associations, of which the host Singapore team won 15 seats, the national table tennis Lin Shidong and He Zhuojia received the wild card of the main tournament, Ku Man and Xiang Peng received the wild card of the qualification, and the most surprising thing was that the two talented teenagers of the French team, Felix and Pavard, also received the wild card issued by the organizing committee, as the most potential young players in Europe, gradually became the darling of the ITTF.
The first Grand Slam tournament of 2022 was held in Singapore, with a total of 64 seats for men's and women's singles, singles champions with 2,000 points, and Singapore organizers with 20 wild cards, 15 of which were given to the host Singapore team, which is also a special care for the host. When Singapore table tennis rose, all rely on naturalized Chinese athletes, the more famous first generation of overseas corps are Jing Junhong, Li Jiawei, the former defeated Deng Yaping at the 1993 World Championships and won the 4th place in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Li Jiawei defeated Wang Nan many times, also won the World Cup medal, and was the 4th place in the women's singles of the Athens and Beijing Olympic Games. After the Singapore team emerged Feng Tianwei led the women's team to win the championship against the Chinese team, there are no new faces that can compete with the national table tennis team.
The Chinese team also received 4 wild cards, of which Lin Shidong and He Zhuojia were wild cards in the main competition. 17-year-old Lin Shidong is the youngest rookie in national table tennis, the potential is unanimously optimistic, he recently in the Macau tournament Lianke Zhou Qihao and Lin Gaoyuan, personal skills have reached a first-class level, due to the low world ranking can not be shortlisted for the Grand Slam, good at the International Table Tennis Federation directly to give wild cards into the main tournament, Lin Shidong got a chance to pass with the world's top masters. He Zhuojia world ranking is the best to come to the 12th place, is a representative of special play, the original national team is to imitate the Japanese team of Ai Fukuhara and Ito Mimako, rubber for half glue half long rubber strange beat, using the world's rare playing method He Zhuojia won a year-end finals women's singles runner-up, in addition to teammates, He Zhuojia's foreign battle results are still very high. Xiang Peng and Ku man, two national table tennis juniors who have won the World Youth Championships, have received wild cards for the qualification round and are expected to stand out from the qualifiers and enter the singles main competition.
In addition to the players from Singapore and China, another wild card team is France, and 15-year-olds Pavard and Felix have won a wild card spot. Pavard is the second main force of the French women's team, she participated in the Tokyo Olympic Women's Team and women's singles at the age of 14, becoming the focus of the French Table Tennis Association to cultivate the object, under the leadership of the Chinese female player Yuan Jianan, I believe that this young player with age and rich experience in the game, the more the better! French straight board male player Felix is a European straight board rising star, together with Alex to win the men's doubles open championship, but also defeated the world champion such as Zhuang Zhiyuan in the singles field, in the European teams, Pavard and Felix are the youngest potential stocks, in the future is expected to revive the Glory created by the French table tennis team Gaiting era, can share wild card seats with the national table tennis, it can be seen that the status of the two French young players in the International Table Tennis Federation is also very high!