Table tennis WTT Oman Challenge has entered the end, Beijing time on the evening of March 4, the first crown of national table tennis was officially born - two world champions Wang Chuqin and Chen Xingtong worked together to sweep the Indian combination Of Manaf/Archanga 3-0 in the mixed doubles final, which also became the first championship won by the national table tennis in the year of the tiger in 2022: congratulations to them!
However, it is very regrettable that as the favorite to win the championship in men's and women's singles, Wang Chuqin and Chen Xingtong are all out of the cold this time, losing to the 18-year-old young players Xiang Peng and Ku Man: compared to the mixed doubles difficulty of climbing to the top, losing singles may be more worthy of the two people's thinking, this game for Wang Chuqin, Chen Xingtong is still more a lesson than a joy.
This year, there are only four world champions in Oman's national table tennis, that is, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin, Chen Xingtong, so they are all popular people who are optimistic about winning the championship by fans. Relatively speaking, the foreign competition pressure of the Chinese team in the doubles field is not large, although we did not send ace combinations, but the top pairing of the foreign association also did not come.
In mixed doubles, Wang Chuqin/Chen Xingtong, as the main pairing of the two world champions, is not surprising that they can reach the final. The other half was the Indian duo of Manav/Arjana eliminating Hungary's Nando/Lyra 3-1, followed by the final in a Sino-Indian battle. However, these two Indian players are really not a threat to the national table tennis, so the final battle has become a "one-sided" situation.
In the first set, Wang Chuqin/Chen Xingtong launched a strong start and won 11-3. The second set of the national table tennis world champion was also unrelenting, and exploded a 11-3 score. In the third set, the resistance of Manaf/Achana finally had some strength, but Wang Chuqin/Chen Xingtong was still much stronger than them after all, and finally locked in a victory 11-8, eliminating the opponent and easily winning the championship.
It is worth mentioning that the performance of Indian players in the women's doubles event is also conspicuous, the two pairs of Sutilta / Ashika, SelvaKumar / Akula successfully met in the semi-finals, and finally the former eliminated the latter 3-1 to advance to the final round, and their opponent will also be the national table tennis combination Kuman / Zhang Rui: I have to say that India's table tennis level has indeed improved!
However, as mentioned at the beginning of the article, although Wang Chuqin and Chen Xingtong won the mixed doubles championship worthy of joy and celebration, after all, the opponents encountered are not very strong, and they are also the only mixed doubles combination paired by the two world champions, losing is called upset, and in contrast to the singles project, Wang Chuqin and Chen Xingtong have too many places to reflect:
In the face of the impact of the young generals Xiang Peng and Ku Man, Wang Chuqin's 1-0 lead was reversed, and he did not play the vitality of the same young man, and Chen Xingtong was also suppressed by the opponent on the whole, so the performance was indeed somewhat surprising, I hope that they will seriously summarize the lessons of the loss, otherwise they may fall into the embarrassing situation of not impacting the veteran, and they will be overtaken by a younger person.