On February 25, 2022, two news of ping-pong came from social media, one good and one bad. The bad news is that the ITTF officially announced that the Chengdu World Table Tennis Team Championships held in April 2022 will be postponed to the end of September, a full five months. The good news is that the young players of the Chinese table tennis team, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin and Chen Xing, have left for Oman for the WTT regular-season challenge in OmanScat. The days when table tennis fans don't have a game to watch are coming to an end.
The ITTF announced that in view of the continuous spread of the new coronavirus of Omilon at this stage, after close consultation with the Chinese Table Tennis Association and the relevant departments of Chengdu City, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) decided to postpone the 2022 Chengdu World Table Tennis Team Championships, which was originally scheduled to be held in April this year, to September 30 to October 9, 2022.
Don't underestimate the news of the postponement of the Team World Table Tennis Championships. The Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships, which was scheduled to be held in 2020, was cancelled after three postponements. The Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships were postponed for 5 months at once, giving it not much time to buffer. Once the outbreak worsens again in September, it is also possible to be forced to cancel.
Fortunately, on the 25th, the Chinese table tennis team set off from Guangzhou as originally planned, rushed to Oman to participate in the WTT Oman station competition, and then transferred to Singapore to participate in the WTT Grand Slam, and then went to the WTT Qatar station. The Oman station that starts on the 27th is the first international competition of the new Olympic cycle, 2022. For the national table tennis players, it is to stand on the same running line again, and the finish line is the 2024 Paris Olympics! This time, I started 3 consecutive races, which was a small exam for all the team members.
After completing a month's overseas expedition, the Chinese table tennis team will return to China en masse. Mainly domestic events, it is also preparing for the Asian Games starting on September 12 and the Chengdu Team World Table Tennis Championships held on the 30th.
In recent years, the uncertainty of international competitions caused by the continuous spread of the epidemic has also put forward new challenges for the preparation of national table tennis. Previously, the national table tennis has maintained the tradition of winter training, and now, the relatively long-term complete large plate training should be adjusted to the small plate training plan, and more team members are required to practice instead of competition. The change of such a competition training method has advantages and disadvantages for the young players of the national table tennis: the advantage is that more participation in international events has enhanced the experience of the competition and the ability to adapt to the scene, and the relative disadvantage is that due to the lack of a long-term and complete training plan in the past, the basic skills of the young players may be relatively weak compared to the old players in the past.