A few days ago, the 2022 Singapore WTT Grand Slam officially started, and the national table tennis team with all the main forces competing in addition to striving for the championship in 5 individual competitions also has an important task, that is, to fully train troops for the Hangzhou Asian Games. The Chinese Table Tennis Association has released the selection method for the table tennis project of the Asian Games on its official website, and in this WTT Grand Slam Singapore competition, the players who won the men's and women's singles championships will get tickets for the National Table Tennis Hangzhou Asian Games in advance. For this decision, I believe that everyone has already predicted that the national table tennis of the Singapore Grand Slam Tournament will be fully mobilized, and Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng and Liu Shiwen are the main force of the team.
As long as there are no physical problems, the Asian Games roster will most likely be produced among these players. Men's team head coach Qin Zhijian said in an interview that this WTT Grand Slam Singapore station is the debut of the main national table tennis team in the Paris Olympic cycle, whether it is Veterans such as Ma Long and Liu Shiwen, or fan Zhendong, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha and other new generation leaders, all hope to get a start at the beginning of the season. According to the selection method of the Asian Games of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, in addition to the players who won the men's and women's singles championships in the Singapore Grand Slam tournament, in the 14th week of the 2022 season, the highest-ranked players of the national table tennis men's and women's teams will also participate in the Hangzhou Asian Games.
If the player who wins the WTT Grand Slam singapore and the player with the highest ranking in the world are the same person, the qualification is extended to the second-ranked athlete in singles. Qin Zhijian also said that since some players in the national table tennis of the Hangzhou Asian Games may be able to carry out a number of players, physical fitness is also one of the important assessment factors in this selection. The debut at the beginning of 2022 and the ticket for the Hangzhou Asian Games, these two extremely tempting opportunities, all national table tennis players will not let go, especially the men's team and the women's team of several absolute core players. From the current situation, the men's single, Fan Zhendong and Ma Long are the two major champions of this Singapore Grand Slam, and the outside world also generally believes that these two players will be in the final.
Malone has achieved a career double grand slam, Fan Zhendong is the successor of the men's team, who of the two can take the lead in getting the Asian Games tickets? The competition for women's singles tickets is also fierce, Wang Manyu is the world championship women's singles champion, Chen Meng is the Olympic champion, Sun Yingsha is the world's first, and the three top players compete for an Asian Games ticket, the intensity can be imagined. Although Sun Yingsha can be shortlisted for the world ranking, this Singapore Grand Slam tournament gathers all the national table tennis women's singles masters, and this championship seems to be more convincing.
In the table tennis men's and women's singles events of the Hangzhou Asian Games, each team can only send two players to participate. National table tennis is more clear in the men's singles event, and Fan Zhendong and Ma Long are the first choice. Women's singles two tickets to whom, may make the coaching staff dilemma, this Singapore Grand Slam, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha have a chance to win the championship, but can only produce one Asian Games singles ticket, the other two players can only rely on the world ranking. Which four players will be able to grab the singles ticket to the Hangzhou Asian Games?
(Luo Treasurer)