On February 27, 2022, the challenge held by the International Table Tennis Federation, in Muscat, Oman, the first three days are qualifiers, the national table tennis sent a lineup of young players, including Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin three main players, most of them are young players, the world ranking is low, need to participate in the qualification tournament, Oman is a regular level event, winning the championship can get 400 points.
This is the first international event for national table tennis to participate in the next year, the coaching staff can in principle register more, try to report as much as possible, to give young players more opportunities to practice instead of racing, mainly to let everyone play with foreign association players, adapt to different playing styles, increase competition experience, improve world rankings, because the level of the event is not high, so some of the main forces are absent, and recently went to Singapore to participate in Grand Slam events.
There are 28 national table tennis players who signed up for the Oman Race, of which 10 directly advanced to the main tournament, the first match day did not arrange doubles, only singles qualification, 18 people attacked the main tournament seat, which also includes the team world champion Yu Ziyang, the strength of the foreign association players in the qualification tournament is average, as long as the level of the training, the problem of winning the game is not big, the host player is basically focused on participation.
However, because the number of people registered for the competition is too large, so the civil war is difficult to avoid, four times there are two players in the same district, no matter what the result, only one person can qualify, namely the men's singles Xiangpeng and Xue Fei, Sun Wen and Yu Ziyang, Liu Dingshuo and Xu Haidong, the women's singles Chen Yi and Qi Fei, this is also no way to do things, 18 people can not be divided in different districts, there will always be someone drawn together.
In the men's singles, only Yuan Lichen participated in the first round of qualifying, the opponent was German youngster Stumpel, everyone else was a bye, Yu Ziyang against Algeria's Berosa, Sun Wen against Russia's Cartesman, Cao Wei against Chinese Taipei's Peng Wangwei, Xue Fei against France's Lembiyette, Xu Yingbin against Oman's Al yasses.
Zhang Yudong against Turkey's Gunduz, Xu Haidong against Singapore's Lucas, Liu Dingshuo against Turkey' player, Zhou Qihao and Xiang Peng's opponents to be determined, Zhou Qihao was tested, before he was out of the Slovenian tournament and lost to a young player from Belgium, this time to achieve good results is not easy, the key is to maintain stability.
Women's singles Kuman against Czech Baraskova, Zhu Sibing against Australia, Fan Siqi against Hungary's Imeler, Yang Huijing against India's Patka, Zifi against Jordan's Yaman, Chen Yi against India's Mukhelji, Shi Xunyao against Germany's Grissel, for fans, need to arrange time reasonably to avoid staying up late to watch the game.