On February 26, Beijing time, the first match of the National Table Tennis Tiger Year - WTT Oman Competition draw results were officially released. Regrettably, due to being in the same community, the Chinese team is destined to have at least 4 athletes out of the singles qualifier stage early, and the women's doubles will also have at least one pair of combinations that do not qualify for the main competition, which is indeed a pity.
At present, 2 of the 5 world champions participating in the national table tennis competition will appear in the qualifiers, that is, Yu Ziyang of the men's team and Chen Xingtong of the women's team, and they are also players who may be out of the singles or doubles events early, and they are about to face a severe test!
The WTT Oman National Table Tennis Tournament sent as many as 28 athletes to participate, the momentum is huge, but the main force of the world champion is only 4, namely Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin, Chen Xingtong, the remaining 24 players are young non-main players, the youngest Lin Shidong is not yet 17 years old.
According to the arrangement, the men's team's Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin, Zhao Zihao, Lin Shidong and the women's team's Chen Xingtong, He Zhuojia, Qian Tianyi, Liu Weishan and Zhang Rui are all singles seeded players and can directly participate in the main competition, while the remaining 18 people must start from the qualification round.
Because there are too many players participating in the national table tennis competition, the probability of the qualifier meeting in advance is very large, and as a result, some people have encountered such a situation -
In the men's singles, Yu Ziyang and Sun Wen, Xue Fei and Xiang Peng, Liu Dingshuo and Xu Haidong can only advance to 1 person at most; in the women's singles, Qi Fei and Chen Yi can only leave one at most; as for the women's doubles, Chen Xingtong/Qian Tianyi, He Zhuojia/Liu Weishan will also pass in the second round of the qualifiers at the latest, which is really bad luck.
At present, the pressure of the national table tennis players in the qualification round is not particularly large, but we must not forget that Zhou Qihao and others lost to Belgian players in the WTT Slovenia Tournament last year, so we still cannot relax our vigilance. As for the main competition, the number of national table tennis seeded players is large, especially the men's singles has won 3 of the top 4 seats, which is completely possible to win the championship and runner-up.
In general, the difficulty of this WTT Oman Race is not particularly large, I hope that the national table tennis athletes can calmly and calmly cope with difficulties, seriously prepare for Zheng Yijing, Aruna and other strong opponents, and do not relax their vigilance against some young players in Europe: I hope that everyone can achieve good results, come on!