On March 8, 2022, the International Table Tennis Federation came the latest news, the national table tennis in Singapore assembled, the second batch of team members arrived safely, with the first step of the teammates to meet, the next will be under the arrangement of head coach Qin Zhijian, Li Falcon to prepare, the International Table Tennis Federation said that everything is good at present, please rest assured by the outside fans, but even so, we still emphasize safety first many times, do a good job of protection.
This time the national table tennis is divided into two groups of actions, the first batch to participate in the Oman Race, directly to Singapore for preparation, of which Xiang Peng, Ku Man need to participate in the singles qualification tournament, as well as Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin three main forces led by some of the team members, although there is no competition task, but are preparing for the battle, adapting to the scene environment, everyone attaches great importance to it, because it is related to the qualification for the Asian Games.
The second batch is to end the training yesterday, this morning flew to Singapore, basically the main players, three veterans Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen is also there, the International Table Tennis Federation first arranged for everyone to stay and rest, and then will provide some conditions to ensure the daily training of the national table tennis players, the seeded player draw will be carried out tomorrow at 15:00 pm, when the national table tennis will send representatives to participate, so stay tuned.
At present, the first round of the singles qualifiers ended, Xiang Peng narrowly defeated Alamyan 3-2, Ku man blasted out 11-8, 11-4, 11-3 consecutive wins three sets, 3-0 eliminated France's Migott, in today's 17 o'clock women's singles second round Kuman against the host player Shu Linxi, 18:10 Xiang Peng against Denmark's Linde, these two qualifiers actually have no suspense, Xiang Peng and Ku man can be said to occupy an absolute advantage.
As for the other players of the national table tennis, it is necessary to wait until the main game to see, the first thing that needs to be paid attention to is the draw, it can be determined that the men's singles Fan Zhendong and Ma Long, the women's singles Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng, are divided into two and a half districts, and are expected to complete the meeting in the final.
This is the first time that a Grand Slam tournament has been held, and its importance is self-evident, especially the national table tennis coaching team recently announced the Asian Games lineup selection criteria, which clearly pointed out that as long as the Singles Championship is won in the Grand Slam event, it can be directly connected to the Asian Games, no matter who it is, some players have no advantage in world rankings, and age is not an ideal choice, so the only way to participate is to win the championship.
Men's team head coach Qin Zhijian said that he hopes that the 16 national table tennis players will go all out to strive to do their best, seize this opportunity, it is foreseeable that the competition of the first Grand Slam event will be very fierce, it is related to the qualification of the competition, who will not easily concede defeat, there is also the impact of the foreign association players can not be underestimated, the real highlight is about to be staged tomorrow, so stay tuned.