Beijing time on March 4 news, WTT regular challenge Muscat station competition, world champion Chen Xingtong lost 1-3 to 18-year-old teammate Ku Man, upset stop in the round of 16. Today's national table tennis women's team, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu are the "troika", while Chen Xingtong and Wang Yidi and Liu Shiwen compete for the 4th person of the women's team, and now, Liu Shiwen leads the way.
Chen Xingtong is 24 years old, she was pinned high hopes, in 2018, Chen Xingtong became the world champion, when the national table tennis won the World Cup women's team competition, the Five Chinese are Ding Ning, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, Zhu Yuling and Liu Shiwen. However, Chen Xingtong needs to seek a breakthrough in his teammates. At last year's World Table Tennis Championships, Chen Xingtong scored into the women's singles round of 8, but 8 into 4 knockouts, facing Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong lost 0-4, without a chance. In the subsequent WTT World Cup match, Chen Xingtong lost 0-3 to Sun Yingsha, and also had no chance.
Today, in the WTT regular season challenge, Chen Xingtong is the highest-ranked women's singles player, facing his 18-year-old teammate Ku man, Chen Xingtong lost 1-3, 6-11, 11-9, 10-12, 7-11!
In such a game, Chen Xingtong stopped in the round of 16, the performance was disappointing, but also showed that the competition in the national table tennis team was indeed fierce, Chen Xingtong thought of challenging Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, but the young players have also caught up.
Today's national table tennis women's team, Sun Yingsha is the world's 1st, Chen Meng is the world's 2nd, Wang Manyu is the world's 4th, and the 3 is the "troika" of the national table tennis women's team, and the strength and status are unshakable. But the 4th person of the women's team is very fierce, originally, Liu Shiwen was behind, but now, Liu Shiwen led the way.
There are two reasons for this. First, Chen Xingtong himself did not perform well. Second, Liu Shiwen performed well in the previous WTT Championship, defeating Wang Yidi and Sun Yingsha successively to get the runner-up.
Now it seems that the postponement of the world table tennis team competition is not good for Liu Shiwen, her current state is remarkable, if the national table tennis women's team chooses 5 people to play, Liu Shiwen should be able to suppress Chen Xingtong or Wang Yidi. But now, the World Table Tennis Championships team competition has been postponed to the second half of the year. Originally, the competition was scheduled for April this year, but it has now been postponed to September 30 to October 9 this year.
The first WTT Grand Slam tournament in Singapore is about to start, and from March 7th to 20th, the competition will start, and Liu Shiwen will definitely participate! In addition, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong will also participate.